I am a research scientist working at ByteDance AI Lab. I am
developing scalable algorithms to learn and mine knowledge from
data, with applications in NLP, machine translation, and time series
analysis.
News
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.
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I am giving a
talk at ICLR 2020 about Learning Deep Latent Models for Text
Sequences. You may watch here.
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1 paper
accepted to AIStats 2020, about density ratio estimation for text
generation.
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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.
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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)