ServiceNow Research

Nicolas Gontier

Nicolas Gontier

Research Scientist

Human Machine Interaction Through Language

Nicolas is a Research Scientist in the Human-Machine Interaction Through Language program at ServiceNow Research. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the Mila institute and Polytechnique Montreal supervised by professor Christopher Pal. His research interest lies at the intersection of Natural Language Processing and multi-step reasoning (or as he likes to call it “Natural Language Reasoning”). Prior to his PhD, he did his Master’s degree at McGill University with Joelle Pineau during which he worked on Dialog Systems.

Interests
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Dialog
  • Large Language Models
  • Text2Code
  • Compositional Generalization
  • Multi Step Reasoning

Publications

StarCoder: may the source be with you!. Raymond Li, Loubna Ben Allal, Yangtian Zi, Niklas Muennighoff, Denis Kocetkov, Chenghao Mou, Marc Marone, Christopher Akiki, Jia Li, Jenny Chim, Qian Liu, Evgenii Zheltonozhskii, Terry Yue Zhuo, Thomas Wang, Olivier Dehaene, Mishig Davaadorj, Joel Lamy Poirier, João Monteiro, Oleh Shliazhko, Nicolas Gontier, Nicholas Meade, Armel Zebaze, Ming-Ho Yee, Logesh Kumar Umapathi, Jian Zhu, Benjamin Lipkin, Muhtasham Oblokulov, Zhiruo Wang, Rudra Murthy, Jason Stillerman, Siva Sankalp Patel, Dmitry Abulkhanov, Marco Zocca, Manan Dey, Zhihan Zhang, Nour Fahmy, Urvashi Bhattacharyya, Wenhao Yu, Swayam Singh, Sasha Luccioni, Paulo Villegas, Maxim Kunakov, Fedor Zhdanov, Manuel Romero, Tony Lee, Nadav Timor, Jennifer Ding, Claire Schlesinger, Hailey Schoelkopf, Jan Ebert, Tri Dao, Mayank Mishra, Alex Gu, Jennifer Robinson, Carolyn Jane Anderson, Brendan Dolan-Gavitt, Danish Contractor, Siva Reddy, Daniel Fried, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Yacine Jernite, Carlos Muñoz Ferrandis, Sean Hughes, Thomas Wolf , Arjun Guha, Leandro von Werra, Harm de Vries. At ArXiv,  2023.

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Does entity abstraction help generative Transformers reason? . Nicolas Gontier, Siva Reddy, Christopher Pal. At Transactions on Machine Learning Research,  2022.

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Measuring Systematic Generalization in Neural Proof Generation with Transformers. Nicolas Gontier, Koustuv Sinha, Siva Reddy, Christopher Pal. At Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),  2020.

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