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Researcher

Jamie Kiros

Also known as Jamie Ryan Kiros

Jamie Kiros is a machine-learning researcher whose papers cover layer normalization, visual-semantic embeddings, insertion-based sequence generation, and synthetic text for NLP. Layer Normalization, a 2016 paper written with Jimmy Lei Ba and Geoffrey Hinton, computes the mean and variance from all of the summed inputs to the neurons in a layer. He also co-wrote a 2020 study of generation order for machine translation that builds on insertion-based modeling. He was listed among the authors of OpenAI's GPT-4o System Card in 2024.

Works
25
Citations
1,859
h-index
13

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 2016

    Layer normalization

    He co-writes Layer Normalization with Jimmy Lei Ba and Geoffrey Hinton in 2016, a method that computes the mean and variance from all of the summed inputs to the neurons in a layer.

  2. 2017

    VSE++ with hard negatives

    In 2017 he co-writes VSE++ with Fartash Faghri, David Fleet, and Sanja Fidler, a method that improves visual-semantic embeddings with hard negatives.

  3. 2019

    The Insertion Transformer

    He co-writes the Insertion Transformer with Mitchell Stern, William Chan, and Jakob Uszkoreit in 2019, a model for sequence generation based on insertion operations.

  4. 2020

    Generation order in translation

    A 2020 study of generation order for machine translation, co-written with William Chan, Mitchell Stern, and Jakob Uszkoreit, builds on insertion-based modeling.

  5. 2021

    Synthetic text for NLP

    He co-writes Generate, Annotate, and Learn: NLP with Synthetic Text with Xuanli He, Islam Nassar, Gholamreza Haffari, and Mohammad Norouzi, a 2021 preprint on language models as a source of synthetic text.

  6. 2024

    Author on the GPT-4o system card

    He appears among the authors of OpenAI's GPT-4o System Card in 2024.

Sources and credits

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  1. [1607.06450] Layer Normalization arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. [1707.05612] VSE++: Improving Visual-Semantic Embeddings with Hard Negatives arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. [1902.03249] Insertion Transformer: Flexible Sequence Generation via Insertion Operations arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. Insertion Transformer: Flexible Sequence Generation via Insertion Operations research.google. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. An Empirical Study of Generation Order for Machine Translation - ACL Anthology aclanthology.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  6. [2106.06168] Generate, Annotate, and Learn: NLP with Synthetic Text arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  7. GPT-4o System Card arxiv.org. Checked 15 October 2026.