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Marzieh Fadaee
@mziizm.bsky.social
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seeks to understand language. Head of Cohere Labs @Cohere_Labs @Cohere PhD from @UvA_Amsterdam https://marziehf.github.io/
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · Apr 30
1/ Science is only as strong as the benchmarks it relies on.

So how fair—and scientifically rigorous—is today’s most widely used evaluation benchmark?

We took a deep dive into Chatbot Arena to find out. 🧵
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Cohere Labs @cohereforai.bsky.social · 8d
We’re not your average lab. We’re a hybrid research environment dedicated to revolutionizing the ML space.

And we’re hiring a Senior Research Scientist to co-create with us.

If you believe in research as a shared, global effort — this is your chance.
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · Sep 5
At its core, @cohereforai.bsky.social is about advancing open science, exploring fundamental research questions, and sharing knowledge broadly

always guided by the pleasure of finding things out.

Excited for what’s next!
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · Sep 5
Very grateful to @sarahooker.bsky.social for shaping the lab into what it is today, and looking forward to working with Joelle whose guidance will be invaluable as we write our next chapter. Also big thanks to @nickfrosst.bsky.social
and @aidangomez.bsky.social Ivan for their support and trust.
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · Sep 5
I'm excited to share that I'll be stepping into the role of Head of @cohereforai.bsky.social. It's an honor and a responsibility to lead such an extraordinary group of researchers pushing the boundaries of AI research.
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Cohere Labs @cohereforai.bsky.social · Aug 15
While effective for chess♟️, Elo ratings struggle with LLM evaluation due to volatility and transitivity issues.

New post in collaboration with AI Singapore explores why Elo falls short for AI leaderboards and how we can do better.
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · Aug 13
If you've been waiting for your moment to step into research, this could be it.

cohere.com/research/sch...
Cohere Labs - Scholars Program
The Cohere Labs Scholars Program offers an opportunity to work with renowned researchers and engineers, offering a collective exploration of the unknown.
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · Aug 13
Over the years, I've watched scholars go from their very first project → to their first paper → to research careers they once thought were out of reach.

It’s been incredible to see what can happen when someone gets their first real chance and works hard to make it count 🏅
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · Aug 13
Breaking into AI research is harder than ever, and early-career researchers face fewer chances to get started.

Entry points matter.

We started the Scholars Program 3 years ago to give new researchers a real shot — excited to open applications for year 4✨
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Cohere Labs @cohereforai.bsky.social · Aug 13
Applications are now open for the next cohort of the Cohere Labs Scholars Program! 🌟

This is your chance to collaborate with some of the brightest minds in AI & chart new courses in ML research. Let's change the spaces breakthroughs happen.

Apply by Aug 29.
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Coalition on Digital Impact (CODI) @codi.global · Aug 7
🌍 Language shapes how we think and connect—but most AI models still struggle beyond English.

@microsoft.com's July seminar discussed how we can bridge the gap and build #AIforEveryone with @mziizm.bsky.social of @cohere.com.

📽️ www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
Building Better Language Models Through Global Understanding - Microsoft Research
Modern language models have achieved remarkable capabilities in English, but human knowledge and experience span thousands of languages, each encoding unique perspectives and problem-solving approache...
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · Jul 29
ACL day 2 ✨
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · Jul 9
There’s so much open space here: how to better integrate language nuances, how to curate and align cross-modal data well, how to go beyond six languages.
Excited to keep exploring it and even more excited to see what the community builds on top of this 💫
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · Jul 9
Huge kudos to my collaborators: @mmderakhshani.bsky.social Dheeraj Varghese @cgmsnoek.bsky.social 🙌

We’re releasing the model, data, and evals soon to help make multilingual image generation more robust, inclusive, and reproducible.

neobabel.github.io
arxiv.org/abs/2507.061...
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · Jul 9
One of my favorite parts of NeoBabel is multilingual inpainting & extrapolation: you can mask part of an image generated in language A, prompt it in language B, and it fills in the scene naturally—no special tuning needed.
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · Jul 9
We used a multistage training setup: starting from class-label grounding, then scaling up to massive multilingual image-text pairs, and finally instruction tuning with high-res, diverse prompts.

This helped the model gradually learn structure, language, and fine-grained control.
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · Jul 9
We put a lot of effort into building a clean, well-aligned multilingual dataset (124M image-text pairs across 6 languages) and it paid off.

NeoBabel generates well in every language. And it’s only 2B params—beating much larger models on benchmarks.
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · Jul 9
This was my first project in image generation, and coming from language I was shocked at how little care is given to text quality in many vision datasets.
Captions are often noisy, shallow, or poorly formatted.
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · Jul 9
🖼️ Most text-to-image models only really work in English.
This limits who can use them and whose imagination they reflect.

We asked: can we build a small, efficient model that understands prompts in multiple languages natively?
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · Jun 29
Everyone talks about GEB (I agree, it's a gem) but Hofstadter's Analogy book is criminally underrated. If you're working on learning intelligence through language understanding, it’s a must-read.
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Julia Kreutzer @juliakreutzer.bsky.social · Jun 26
🍋 Squeezing the most of few samples - check out our LLMonade recipe for few-sample test-time scaling in multitask environments.

Turns out that standard methods miss out on gains on non-English languages. We propose more robust alternatives.

Very proud of this work that our scholar Ammar led! 🚀
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Cohere Labs @cohereforai.bsky.social · Jun 26
Can we improve the performance of LLMs during inference without the need for extensive sampling OR special reward models? 🤔

Our latest work introduces a new inference time scaling recipe that is sample-efficient, multilingual, and suitable for multi-task requirements. 🍋
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · Jun 9
London has me under its spell. every. single. visit.
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Julia Kreutzer @juliakreutzer.bsky.social · Jun 4
🚨LLM safety research needs to be at least as multilingual as our models.

What's the current stage and how to progress from here?
This work led by @yongzx.bsky.social has answers! 👇
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Cohere Labs @cohereforai.bsky.social · Jun 3
It’s been two years since cross-lingual jailbreaks were first discovered. How far has the multilingual LLM safety research field advanced? 🤔

📏 Our comprehensive survey reveals that there is still a long way to go.
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · May 28
I guess your next challenge is making veo-baby as cute as your actual baby 😍
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Cohere Labs @cohereforai.bsky.social · May 28
Over 7000 languages are spoken worldwide 🌐, but AI safety efforts focus on only a fraction of them.

Our latest paper draws on our multi-year efforts with the wider research community to explore why this matters and how we can bridge the AI language gap.
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Anna Rogers @annarogers.bsky.social · May 26
📢 The Copenhagen NLP Symposium on June 20th!

- Invited talks by @loubnabnl.hf.co (HF) @mziizm.bsky.social (Cohere) @najoung.bsky.social (BU) @kylelo.bsky.social (AI2) Yohei Oseki (UTokyo)
- Exciting posters by other participants

Register to attend and/or present your poster at cphnlp.github.io /1
Copenhagen NLP Symposium 2025
symposium website
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Marzieh Fadaee @mziizm.bsky.social · May 1
again leading to disproportionate access to human annotations.
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