Kevin Farhat

Researching flexible language models.

I’m on the OLMo team at Ai2, thinking about adaptive LLMs, continual learning, modular models, and reasoning in base models.

Work & background

Now
Ai2OLMo team · FlexOLMo
Previously
TrueMediaDeepfake detection with Oren Etzioni
Education
University of WashingtonBS/MS, Computer Science
With Akari Asai in Hannaneh Hajishirzi’s lab (H2Lab)
Thesis with Oren Etzioni

Selected papers

  1. FlexOLMo: Open Language Models for Flexible Data Use

    NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight

  2. Deepfake-Eval-2024: A Multi-Modal In-the-Wild Benchmark of Deepfakes Circulated in 2024

    APAI @ CVPR 2026

  3. The Tug-of-War Between Deepfake Generation and Detection

    DMLR @ ICML 2024

Outside work

Playing and watching soccer, traveling, and carrot cake.