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Mike Lewis
MetaResearch Scientist
Lewis created BART, which learns to understand and generate text by reconstructing passages that have been deliberately scrambled or partly removed. He also contributed to RoBERTa and led pretraining for Llama 3, helping turn language-model research into widely used open models.
Career & education
Current roleMeta2016-presentResearch Scientist
Meta2016-presentPreviously
Postdoc
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations167,904As of Nov 1, '26
citations+7,778Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
RoBERTa: A Robustly Optimized BERT Pretraining Approach
With Yinhan Liu, Myle Ott, Naman Goyal, Jingfei Du, Mandar Joshi, Danqi Chen, Omer Levy and others ·Showed that better training choices could improve BERT without changing its core architecture.
Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks
With Patrick Lewis, Ethan Perez, Aleksandra Piktus, Fabio Petroni, Vladimir Karpukhin, Naman Goyal, Heinrich Küttler and others ·RAG finds relevant documents to help a language model generate better-informed answers.
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