Lei Li

Carnegie Mellon University

Language Technology Institute
Assistant Professor

Research area: natural language processing, machine learning.

Topics:

  • Multilingual NLP, machine translation, speech translation, .
  • LLM: text generation, code generation, reasoning, privacy, watermark.
  • AI for drug discovery.
  • Efficient ML.

Bio

  • CGMH: A method for controllable text generation from specified keywords. [arxiv]
  • Analyzing anisotropic sentence embeddings from pre-trained language models. [arxiv]
  • Data-efficient methods for many-to-many neural machine translation. [mRASP, mRASP2]
  • Glancing Transformer (GLAT): non-autoregressive translation models are equally good as autoregressive Transformer. [arxiv]
  • VOLT: Learning vocabulary via optimal transport (ACL 2021 Best Paper). [arxiv]
  • SOLO: Fast and accurate object instance segmentation. [SOLO, SOLOv2]