Lei Li

News

• SOLOv2 is out! One paper about faster object instance segmentation in images is accepted to NeurIPS 2020.
• 5 papers accepted to EMNLP 2020! 3 in Long track and 2 in Findings.
• SOLO paper accepted to ECCV 2020, achieving the SOTA in visual object instance segmentation.
• 1 paper accepted to ICML 2020, about solving a family of deep latent models (exponential family mixture VAEs).
• 1 paper and 1 demo accepted to ACL 2020, about tailoring pretrained language model and the robot reporter Xiaomingbot.
• I am giving a talk at ICLR 2020 about Learning Deep Latent Models for Text Sequences. You may watch here.
• 1 paper accepted to AIStats 2020, about density ratio estimation for text generation.
• 2 papers accepted at ICLR 2020, about mirror generative model to unite language modelling and machine translation, and learning data-to-text generation templates via a variational method even without parallel corpus.
•  4 papers accepted at AAAI 2020, about pretraining method for neural machine translation, text editing, and approximate second order optimization.
• 1 paper accepted at NeurIPS 2019, about contextualized embedding for text generation and how we use kernels to model distribution and variance of word embeddings. see you in Vancouver.
• EMNLP 2019 Tutorial on Discreteness in NLP
• 1 paper accepted at INLG 2019. It is about the style transfer for text generation .
• 1 paper accepted at EMNLP 2019, about linear time neural machine translation.
• 2 papers accepted at ICCV 2019. One is to be presented as an Oral talk.
• Dr. Hao Zhou and I are going to give a tutorial on deep generative models for text generation at NLPCC-ADL 2019 at Dunhuang, China.

Media Coverage

Coverage about Xiaomingbot:

• Disrupted Journalism, DisruptionHub. July 20, 2017. (mentioning our in-house developed Xiaomingbot)
  
• Robot gives competitive edge to tech application, China Daily, September 4, 2016. (similar coverage by 83 reports in Chinese. about our news writing robot: Xiaomingbot)
  
• Prolific Robot Journalist Covers 450 Olympic Stories. Newsweek. August 26, 2016. (coverage of our in-house developed writing robot Xiaomingbot)
• The Future of Writing? China's AI Reporter Published 450 Articles During Rio Olympics, Futurism, August 26, 2016.
• Robot Reporter Covered The Olympics For A Chinese News Outlet, Popular Science, August 25, 2016.
• China Sends AI Reporter to Cover the Rio Olympics -- Blows Every Journalist Out of the Water, Nextshark, August 25, 2016.  
• A Chinese news outlet used an incredibly efficient “robot reporter” to cover the Olympics. Quartz. August 24, 2016.
• China's A.I. Olympics Reporter Could Replace Journalists, Inverse, August 24, 2016.
• Breaking down China's most popular news app, Toutiao, AbacUSNews, Oct. 2, 2018. (mentioning  Xiaomingbot)
• The Insanely Popular Chinese News App That You've Never Heard Of, MIT Technology Review, January 26, 2017. (mentioning Xiaomingbot)
  

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