Kyle Lo
research
I’m a research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI on the OLMo and Semantic Scholar projects. I specialize in topics in natural language processing, machine learning and human-AI interaction:
me
I live in Seattle. When not working, I hang with my cat Belphegor and play board games (Robinson Crusoe, Cthulu: Death May Die, Hanabi) and video games (Baldur's Gate 3, Valheim, Slay the Spire, Noita, Vampire Survivors). I love D&D and just finished a four year campaign in Eberron. Now embarking on a West Marches campaign while trying out some other systems like Blades in the Dark. I'm a boba enthusiast and my favorites in Seattle are Xing Fu Tang, TP Tea and Sunright Tea Studio.
news
| Oct 01, 2024 | Excited that our Semantic Reader paper is published in Communications of the ACM! 🥳 This paper synthesizes our five years of AI and HCI research (50 researchers, 12 institutions) aimed at understanding reading challenges faced by scholars and how AI-powered intelligent interfaces can help. Check out the paper here! |
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| Sep 25, 2024 | Molmo is out! Molmo is our family of open, late-fusion image 👀 + text 💬 language models trained using a really high-quality dataset of images + dense captions / task demonstrations! ✅ Read the paper here, ✅ play with the model here, ✅ download the weights here, and ✅ look forward to our dataset release soon! |
| Sep 03, 2024 | OLMoE is out! Our first mixture of experts model in the OLMo family 🎉 OLMoE has only 1B active params but matches perf of larger dense models 🫨 and comes released with: ✅ weights ✅ data ✅ code ✅ ckpts ✅ logs ✅ detailed paper! Download the weights here and read the paper here! |
| Aug 14, 2024 | So proud to see both our OLMo and Dolma papers win 🏆 Best Paper awards 🏆 at ACL 2024 🇹🇭 |
| Jul 25, 2024 | Excited to be speaking at Gen Law workshop at ICML 2024 in 🇦🇹! I’ll be sharing fun pretraining data curation stories from OLMo, and my slides have cats! 🐈 |
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| Jun 01, 2024 | Welcome Summer 2024 interns! Excited to be working with Alex Wettig, Chaitanya Malaviya, Lucy Li, Rose Wang, and Vishakh Padmakumar! |
| May 16, 2024 | Four papers accepted to ACL 2024! 🎉 Two papers on open language models: OLMo for models and Dolma for data. Two papers on evaluating long-text generation: InfolossQA for omissions in medical summaries and KIWI for long-form QA over science papers. See y’all in Thailand! 🇹🇭 |
| May 01, 2024 | omg attending back to back conferences. ICLR 2024 in Vienna 🇦🇹🥐 presenting Booookscore, evaluating discourse coherency in book-length summarization. CHI 2024 in Hawaii 🇺🇸🍣 presenting two works on helping non-expert audiences understand research papers through AI: Paper Plain, an augmented reading interface over medical papers, and Know your Audience, a large-scale user study on benefits and pitfalls of plain language summarization. |
| Feb 01, 2024 | Excited to release our first set of artifacts from the OLMo project 🥳 Want models? Download our open-source weights at 1B and a pair of weights at 7B and 7B scale, trained on different hardware, on Huggingface. We also open-source all our training and inference code. Learn more from our paper. Want data? Download all 3T tokens on Huggingface. We also open-source all our dataset construction tools. Learn more from our paper. |
| Dec 12, 2023 | Happy to be rounding out the year with a Best Paper Award 🏆 for the EMNLP 2023 System Demo track for PaperMage! Also presenting EMNLP 2023 Main Conference and Findings accepted papers on Decontextualizing for Scientific Document Snippets, Tip-of-the-Tongue Retrieval, and Evaluating Multidocument Summarization with Retrieved Documents. Excited to see all my co-authors in Singapore! |
| Jun 15, 2023 | Welcome Summer 2023 interns! Excited to be working directly with Orion Weller, Hyunji Lee, Fangyuan Xu and Hang Jiang! |
| Apr 30, 2023 | Having a pretty good April :) Best paper award at CHI 23 (CiteSee) and Outstanding paper award at EACL 23 (LongEval). Thanks and congrats to all my co-authors! |
| Jan 01, 2023 | New year, new site! |