Jack Urbanek

According to our database, Jack Urbanek authored at least 25 papers between 2018 and 2026.

Collaborative distances:

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2026

The Finetuner's Fallacy: When to Pretrain with Your Finetuning Data.

Christina Baek, Ricardo Pio Monti, David Schwab, Amro Abbas, Rishabh Adiga, Cody Blakeney, Maximilian Böther, Paul Burstein, Aldo Gael Carranza, Alvin Deng, Parth Doshi, Vineeth Dorna, Alex Fang, Tony Jiang, Siddharth Joshi, Brett W. Larsen, Jason Chan Lee, Katherine L. Mentzer, Luke Merrick, Haakon Mongstad, Fan Pan, Anshuman Suri, Darren Teh, Jason Telanoff, Jack Urbanek, Zhengping Wang, Josh Wills, Haoli Yin, Aditi Raghunathan, J. Zico Kolter, Bogdan Gaza, Ari Morcos, Matthew L. Leavitt, Pratyush Maini

CoRR, March, 2026

ÜberWeb: Insights from Multilingual Curation for a 20-Trillion-Token Dataset.

Aldo Gael Carranza, Kaleigh Mentzer, Ricardo Pio Monti, Alex Fang, Alvin Deng, Amro Abbas, Anshuman Suri, Brett W. Larsen, Cody Blakeney, Darren Teh, David Schwab, Diego Kiner, Fan Pan, Haakon Mongstad, Haoli Yin, Jack Urbanek, Jason Lee, Jason Telanoff, Josh Wills, Luke Merrick, Maximilian Böther, Parth Doshi, Paul Burstein, Pratyush Maini, Rishabh Adiga, Siddharth Joshi, Spandan Das, Tony Jiang, Vineeth Dorna, Zhengping Wang, Bogdan Gaza, Ari Morcos, Matthew L. Leavitt

CoRR, February, 2026

DatBench: Discriminative, Faithful, and Efficient VLM Evaluations.

Siddharth Joshi, Haoli Yin, Rishabh Adiga, Ricardo Monti, Aldo Carranza, Alex Fang, Alvin Deng, Amro Abbas, Brett W. Larsen, Cody Blakeney, Darren Teh, David Schwab, Fan Pan, Haakon Mongstad, Jack Urbanek, Jason Lee, Jason Telanoff, Josh Wills, Kaleigh Mentzer, Luke Merrick, Parth Doshi, Paul Burstein, Pratyush Maini, Scott Loftin, Spandan Das, Tony Jiang, Vineeth Dorna, Zhengping Wang, Bogdan Gaza, Ari Morcos, Matthew L. Leavitt

CoRR, January, 2026

2025

Luxical: High-Speed Lexical-Dense Text Embeddings.

Luke Merrick, Alex Fang, Aldo Carranza, Alvin Deng, Amro Abbas, Brett W. Larsen, Cody Blakeney, Darren Teh, David Schwab, Fan Pan, Haakon Mongstad, Haoli Yin, Jack Urbanek, Jason Lee, Jason Telanoff, Josh Wills, Kaleigh Mentzer, Paul Burstein, Parth Doshi, Paul Burnstein, Pratyush Maini, Ricardo Monti, Rishabh Adiga, Scott Loftin, Siddharth Joshi, Spandan Das, Tony Jiang, Vineeth Dorna, Zhengping Wang, Bogdan Gaza, Ari Morcos, Matthew L. Leavitt

CoRR, December, 2025

BeyondWeb: Lessons from Scaling Synthetic Data for Trillion-scale Pretraining.

Pratyush Maini, Vineeth Dorna, Parth Doshi, Aldo Carranza, Fan Pan, Jack Urbanek, Paul Burstein, Alex Fang, Alvin Deng, Amro Abbas, Brett W. Larsen, Cody Blakeney, Charvi Bannur, Christina Baek, Darren Teh, David Schwab, Haakon Mongstad, Haoli Yin, Josh Wills, Kaleigh Mentzer, Luke Merrick, Ricardo Monti, Rishabh Adiga, Siddharth Joshi, Spandan Das, Zhengping Wang, Bogdan Gaza, Ari Morcos, Matthew L. Leavitt

CoRR, August, 2025

2024

Improving Text-to-Image Consistency via Automatic Prompt Optimization.

Oscar Mañas, Pietro Astolfi, Melissa Hall, Candace Ross, Jack Urbanek, Adina Williams, Aishwarya Agrawal, Adriana Romero-Soriano, Michal Drozdzal

Trans. Mach. Learn. Res., 2024

Text Motion Translator: A Bi-directional Model for Enhanced 3D Human Motion Generation from Open-Vocabulary Descriptions.

Yijun Qian, Jack Urbanek, Alex Hauptmann, Jungdam Won

Proceedings of the Computer Vision - ECCV 2024, 2024

A Picture is Worth More Than 77 Text Tokens: Evaluating CLIP-Style Models on Dense Captions.

Jack Urbanek, Florian Bordes, Pietro Astolfi, Mary Williamson, Vasu Sharma, Adriana Romero-Soriano

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2024

2023

Multi-Party Chat: Conversational Agents in Group Settings with Humans and Models.

Jimmy Wei, Kurt Shuster, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston, Jack Urbanek, Mojtaba Komeili

CoRR, 2023

Infusing Commonsense World Models with Graph Knowledge.

Alexander Gurung, Mojtaba Komeili, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston, Jack Urbanek

CoRR, 2023

Mephisto: A Framework for Portable, Reproducible, and Iterative Crowdsourcing.

Jack Urbanek, Pratik Ringshia

CoRR, 2023

Breaking The Limits of Text-conditioned 3D Motion Synthesis with Elaborative Descriptions.

Yijun Qian, Jack Urbanek, Alexander G. Hauptmann, Jungdam Won

Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, 2023

2022

Am I Me or You? State-of-the-Art Dialogue Models Cannot Maintain an Identity.

Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: NAACL 2022, 2022

Reason first, then respond: Modular Generation for Knowledge-infused Dialogue.

Leonard Adolphs, Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, 2022

2021

How to Motivate Your Dragon: Teaching Goal-Driven Agents to Speak and Act in Fantasy Worlds.

Prithviraj Ammanabrolu, Jack Urbanek, Margaret Li, Arthur Szlam, Tim Rocktäschel, Jason Weston

Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, 2021

Dialogue in the Wild: Learning from a Deployed Role-Playing Game with Humans and Bots.

Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Emily Dinan, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL/IJCNLP 2021, 2021

2020

Deploying Lifelong Open-Domain Dialogue Learning.

Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Emily Dinan, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston

CoRR, 2020

Open-Domain Conversational Agents: Current Progress, Open Problems, and Future Directions.

Stephen Roller, Y-Lan Boureau, Jason Weston, Antoine Bordes, Emily Dinan, Angela Fan, David Gunning, Da Ju, Margaret Li, Spencer Poff, Pratik Ringshia, Kurt Shuster, Eric Michael Smith, Arthur Szlam, Jack Urbanek, Mary Williamson

CoRR, 2020

I love your chain mail! Making knights smile in a fantasy game world: Open-domain goal-oriented dialogue agents.

Shrimai Prabhumoye, Margaret Li, Jack Urbanek, Emily Dinan, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston, Arthur Szlam

CoRR, 2020

Queens are Powerful too: Mitigating Gender Bias in Dialogue Generation.

Emily Dinan, Angela Fan, Adina Williams, Jack Urbanek, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston

Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2020

Generating Interactive Worlds with Text.

Angela Fan, Jack Urbanek, Pratik Ringshia, Emily Dinan, Emma Qian, Siddharth Karamcheti, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Douwe Kiela, Tim Rocktäschel, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston

Proceedings of the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2020

2019

The Second Conversational Intelligence Challenge (ConvAI2).

Emily Dinan, Varvara Logacheva, Valentin Malykh, Alexander H. Miller, Kurt Shuster, Jack Urbanek, Douwe Kiela, Arthur Szlam, Iulian Serban, Ryan Lowe, Shrimai Prabhumoye, Alan W. Black, Alexander I. Rudnicky, Jason D. Williams, Joelle Pineau, Mikhail Burtsev, Jason Weston

CoRR, 2019

Learning to Speak and Act in a Fantasy Text Adventure Game.

Jack Urbanek, Angela Fan, Siddharth Karamcheti, Saachi Jain, Samuel Humeau, Emily Dinan, Tim Rocktäschel, Douwe Kiela, Arthur Szlam, Jason Weston

Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, 2019

2018

Mastering the Dungeon: Grounded Language Learning by Mechanical Turker Descent.

Zhilin Yang, Saizheng Zhang, Jack Urbanek, Will Feng, Alexander H. Miller, Arthur Szlam, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Learning Representations, 2018

Personalizing Dialogue Agents: I have a dog, do you have pets too?

Saizheng Zhang, Emily Dinan, Jack Urbanek, Arthur Szlam, Douwe Kiela, Jason Weston

Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2018