--- title: "Adam Polyak — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Adam Polyak: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2022), h-index 21 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-polyak/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-polyak/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Adam Polyak # Adam Polyak Adam Polyak has 3 papers in our library, in 2021–2022, most of them on [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Wei-Ning Hsu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-ning-hsu/), [Yossi Adi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yossi-adi/), [Abdelrahman Mohamed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdelrahman-mohamed/). 3 papers in our library · 2021–2022 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5038017098) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2563-2111) · [**h-index 21**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5038017098) · [49 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5038017098) · [2,383 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5038017098&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-polyak/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 202 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-polyak/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3599](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/36/#star-3599) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Adam+Polyak) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Adam+Polyak) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Adam+Polyak) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Adam+Polyak) ## Affiliations [🏢**Meta** Menlo Park · United States 2016–2025 · 18 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta/) · [🎓**Tel Aviv University** Tel Aviv · Israel 2015–2025 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tel-aviv-university/) · [🏢**Meta** Tel Aviv · Israel 2017–2021 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta-israel/) · [🏢**Meta** London · United Kingdom 2020–2022 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta-united-kingdom/) · [🎓**Bar-Ilan University** Ramat Gan · Israel 2021–2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bar-ilan-university/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2021–2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🔬**École des hautes études en sciences sociales** Paris · France 2021–2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/ecole-des-hautes-etudes-en-sciences-sociales/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Signal Processing · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Speech & spoken language · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2022** 2 papers Adam Polyak's papers of 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-polyak/year/2022/) · [**2021** 1 paper On Generative Spoken Language Modeling from Raw Audio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lakhotia-2021-generative-spoken-language-modeling-raw/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Direct Speech-to-Speech Translation With Discrete Units](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lee-2022-direct-speech-speech-translation-discrete/)** *(2022 · 171 citations)* The paper tackles direct speech-to-speech translation (S2ST), which converts speech in one language into speech in another without producing text along the way. 2. **[On Generative Spoken Language Modeling from Raw Audio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lakhotia-2021-generative-spoken-language-modeling-raw/)** *(2021 · 166 citations)* The paper introduces Generative Spoken Language Modeling (GSLM): learning both the sound system and the linguistic structure of a language directly from raw audio, without transcripts or labels. 3. **[Text-Free Prosody-Aware Generative Spoken Language Modeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kharitonov-2022-text-free-prosody-aware-generative/)** *(2022 · 101 citations)* Most speech pre-training work targets classification, and the one earlier generative approach, GSLM, models speech through discovered phone-like units that drop most prosodic information. ## Co-authors here 12 of 19 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Wei-Ning Hsu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-ning-hsu/) ×3 - [Yossi Adi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yossi-adi/) ×3 - [Abdelrahman Mohamed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abdelrahman-mohamed/) ×2 - [Ann Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ann-lee/) ×2 - [Emmanuel Dupoux](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emmanuel-dupoux/) ×2 - [Eugene Kharitonov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eugene-kharitonov/) ×2 - [Jade Copet](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jade-copet/) ×2 - [Kushal Lakhotia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kushal-lakhotia/) ×2 - [Tu-Anh Nguyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tu-anh-nguyen/) ×2 - [Alexei Baevski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexei-baevski/) - [Benjamin Bolte](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-bolte/) - [Changhan Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/changhan-wang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×2: [ACL 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2022/) ×2 - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2021/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 202 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [20 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-polyak/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026