Gonçalo Faria

Ph.D. Student @ Noah's ARK, UW CSE
Student Researcher @ Ai2
gfaria@cs.washington.edu

I am currently an PhD student at University of Washington, under the guidance of Professor Noah Smith. I studied at the University of Minho for my undergrad and at Instituto Superior Técnico for my master's (Portugal). My master's dissertation, advised by André Martins and Mário Figueiredo, focused on Differentiable Causal Discovery.


Publications
BoNVoyage: Learning Better Rewards without Ranking
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Gonçalo Faria, Guang Yang, Alisa Liu, Noah A. Smith
Sample, Don't Search: Rethinking Test-Time Alignment for Language Models
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Gonçalo Faria, Noah A. Smith
Modeling User Preferences with Automatic Metrics: Creating a High-Quality Preference Dataset for Machine Translation
EMNLP 2024
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Sweta Agrawal, José G. C. de Souza, Ricardo Rei, António Farinhas, Gonçalo Faria, Patrick Fernandes, Nuno M Guerreiro, Andre Martins
QUEST: Quality-Aware Metropolis-Hastings Sampling for Machine Translation
NEURIPS 2024
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Gonçalo Faria, Sweta Agrawal, António Farinhas, Ricardo Rei, José G. C. de Souza, André F. T. Martins
Differentiable Causal Discovery Under Latent Interventions
CLEAR 2022
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Gonçalo Faria, André F. T. Martins, Mário A. T. Figueiredo

Also on Google Scholar
Talks
NLP Lab, National Taiwan University (NTU), March 17, 2026
ELLIS–SARDINE Seminars, February 1, 2026
Paul G. Allen School Research Showcase & Open House — NLP & Reinforcement Learning, October 29, 2025