Jacob Morrison

Predoctoral Researcher
Allen Institute for AI

Jacob Morrison

Hi! I'm a predoctoral researcher on the AllenNLP team at Ai2. I'm also an incoming NLP PhD student at UW, where I'll be working with Banghua Zhu, and I'll be supported by an NSF Computer Science Graduate Fellowship.

I've previously worked on code generation at Google [x] and platform health at Twitter, and in a previous life I was a software engineer at Tableau and Google. See my CV for more details.

Research


My research is generally focused on making language models broadly useful and reliable, and understanding their downstream societal impacts. In addition to my research I also spend a portion of my time helping policymakers understand and address the societal impacts of AI.

A few selected interests of mine and relevant publications:
data-centric methods for improving model capabilities
open science and democratizing access to large models
environmental and societal impacts of AI systems

Selected Awards & Fellowships

  • May 2025: Mercor Graduate Fellowship Finalist
  • August 2024: ACL Theme Paper Award
  • August 2024: ACL Best Resource Paper Award
  • April 2024: GeekWire Innovation of the Year
  • August 2023: NSF Computer Science Graduate Fellowship

Publications


2025

  • FlexOLMo: Open Language Models for Flexible Data Use
    Weijia Shi, Akshita Bhagia, Kevin Farhat, Niklas Muennighoff, Evan Pete Walsh, Jacob Morrison, Dustin Schwenk, Shayne Longpre, Jake Poznanski, Allyson Ettinger, Daogao Liu, Margaret Li, Mike Lewis, Wen-tau Yih, Dirk Groeneveld, Luca Soldaini, Kyle Lo, Noah A. Smith, Luke Zettlemoyer, Pang Wei Koh, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Ali Farhadi, Sewon Min
    Under review
  • RewardBench 2: Advancing Reward Model Evaluation
    Saumya Malik, Valentina Pyatkin, Sander Land, Jacob Morrison, Noah A. Smith, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Nathan Lambert
    Under review
  • 2 OLMo 2 Furious
    OLMo Team, Pete Walsh, Luca Soldaini, Dirk Groeneveld, Kyle Lo, Shane Arora, Akshita Bhagia, Yuling Gu, Shengyi Huang, Matt Jordan, Nathan Lambert, Dustin Schwenk, Oyvind Tafjord, Taira Anderson, David Atkinson, Faeze Brahman, Christopher Clark, Pradeep Dasigi, Nouha Dziri, Michal Guerquin, Hamish Ivison, Pang Wei Koh, Jiacheng Liu, Saumya Malik, William Merrill, Lester James V. Miranda, Jacob Morrison, Tyler Murray, Crystal Nam, Valentina Pyatkin, Aman Rangapur, Michael Schmitz, Sam Skjonsberg, David Wadden, Christopher Wilhelm, Michael Wilson, Luke Zettlemoyer, Ali Farhadi, Noah A. Smith, Hannaneh Hajishirzi
    COLM 2025 paper blog

2024

2022