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Sebastian Ruder
MetaResearch Scientist
Ruder co-created ULMFiT with Jeremy Howard, showing how a language model trained on general text could be adapted to new tasks with few labeled examples.[1] His research aims to make language AI work across more languages, while his blog and NLP News newsletter explain advances in the field.
Career & education
Current roleMetaNov 2024-presentResearch Scientist
MetaNov 2024-presentPreviously
Cohere2024-2024Research Scientist
Google DeepMind2019-2024Research Scientist
Cohere2024-2024Google DeepMind2019-2024Work 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.
citations64,441As of Oct 20, '26
citations+2,948Since last snapshot, Aug 8, '26
References
- Universal Language Model Fine-tuning for Text Classificationaclanthology.org
Howard and Ruder show how an existing language model can be adapted for text classification with very few labeled examples.
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