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Naman Goyal

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Member of Technical Staff at Thinking Machines Lab

Goyal contributed to RoBERTa, which showed that better training could substantially improve BERT, and to Meta's Llama models, which made capable downloadable language models widely available. His work has also expanded language technology across more languages and larger computing systems.

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Background

Current role
Member of Technical Staff 2025-present
Previously
2018-2025Research Engineer,
2016-2018Software Engineer,
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Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.

Last editorial review: August 8, 2026

Citation Trend

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Citation history from Aug 25, '25 to Sep 1, '26206,382168,394130,405Aug 25, '25Jun 15, '26Jul 1, '26Sep 1, '26
206,382citations as of Sep 1, '26+6,617 since Aug 1, '26
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