FlexOlmo: Open Language Models for Flexible Data Use

Allyson Ettinger is a senior research scientist at Ai2 working on the OLMo pre-training team. Her public materials focus on natural language understanding, language model behavior, and learning from text and experience.

Public sources identify Dirk Groeneveld as an OLMo 3 coauthor; a 2022 USC ISI speaker bio described him as a principal engineer at AI2 and technical lead for the AllenNLP Platform team.

Jacob Morrison's homepage says he is a PhD student at UW and a student researcher on the AllenNLP team at Ai2, where he mainly works on language modeling.

Jakub "Jake" Poznanski identifies himself on his personal site as a Carnegie Mellon computer science graduate and describes leading an OCR toolkit on GitHub.

Kyle Lo's public homepage says he formerly served as a research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI, where he co-led OLMo. It describes current work on large-scale pretraining, data mixing, benchmark validity, and research-supporting data and software artifacts.

Lead research scientist at Ai2 and a founding member of the OLMo team. He works on open language models, language agents, evaluation, and reasoning, and helps build open-model research infrastructure.

OpenReview lists Evan Pete Walsh as a researcher at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and recent public reports credit Pete Walsh on OLMo Hybrid and related open-model work.

Research scientist at Ai2 and PhD candidate at the University of Washington. Her work focuses on language models, evaluation, and building practical open-source AI systems.

Luke Zettlemoyer works on empirical methods for natural language semantics, machine learning, new tasks and datasets, and self-supervision for pre-training.

The Allen School lists Pang Wei Koh as an assistant professor at the University of Washington and a visiting research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI. The same page lists expertise in explainable AI, generative AI, machine learning, and natural language processing.

CEO of the Allen Institute for AI and professor of computer science at the University of Washington. His work spans computer vision, multimodal learning, reasoning, and embodied AI.

Noah A. Smith is the University of Washington's inaugural Vice Provost for Artificial Intelligence and a professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering. He is also Senior Director of NLP Research at the Allen Institute for AI.

Hannaneh Hajishirzi is Senior Director at Ai2 and a professor of computer science at the University of Washington. Her public materials focus on generative AI, reasoning, open language models, pre-training, and evaluation.

Weijia Shi is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on building augmented and modular architectures to improve the quality, efficiency, and capabilities of language models.

Kevin Farhat's homepage says he is a research engineer at Ai2 working on language models, distributed AI, and privacy-preserving training. Public sources also list him as a coauthor of FlexOlmo.

Niklas Muennighoff researches language models and evaluation at Stanford and has publicly led open-model work including OLMoE.

Shayne Longpre's public profiles identify him as a PhD candidate at MIT focused on data-centric AI, language models, and their societal impact.

Daogao Liu's homepage says he is currently a visiting postdoctoral researcher at Google. It says his research focuses on machine learning and theoretical computer science, especially differential privacy, stochastic optimization, and algorithm design.

Scott Wen-tau Yih is a research scientist at Meta FAIR whose recent work focuses on neural retrieval and retrieval-augmented generation; his homepage lists prior roles at Ai2 and Microsoft Research.

Assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley and research scientist at the Allen Institute for AI. Her public homepage highlights work on language models, natural language processing, pretraining, post-training, and test-time computation.

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Allyson Ettinger

Dirk Groeneveld

Jacob Morrison

Jake Poznanski

Kyle Lo

Luca Soldaini

Pete Walsh

Akshita Bhagia

Luke Zettlemoyer

Pang Wei Koh

Ali Farhadi

Noah A. Smith

Hannaneh Hajishirzi

Weijia Shi

Kevin Farhat

Niklas Muennighoff

Shayne Longpre

Daogao Liu

Wen-tau Yih

Sewon Min