News
2023
| 11-15 | New preprint: Lumos Agent (led by AI2 intern Da Yin (UCLA)), Personalized Soups (led by AI2 intern Joel Jang (UW)). |
| 09-21 | Both SwiftSage and FnF papers got in NeurIPS 2023 as spotlight! |
| 07-29 | Check out our new work (with Chengsong and Qian): LoraHub for efficient cross-task generalization. |
| 07-12 | Invited talk at Microsoft Research, Montreal: Language-based Reasoning for Complex Interactive Tasks in Real-World Situations |
| 07-09 | Co-presented an tutorial at ACL 2023 on Complex Reasoning in Natural Language. |
| 06-18 | Will serve as an Area Chair at EMNLP 2023 |
| 06-10 | Invited talk at Prof. Dongkuan (DK) Xu's team at NCSU. |
| 05-01 | Our work on PairReranker has been accepted to the ACL 2023 main conference! |
| 03-29 | Invited talk at Microsoft Research: "Advancing Large Language Models with Input Augmentation and Output Refinement" (slides). |
| 02-26 | We gave an tutorial on Knowledge-Augmented Methods for NLP at WSDM 2023! |
| 02-20 | I moved to Seattle, WA! Just started my new journey at AI2 Mosaic! :D Also, our tutorial on Complex Reasoning has been accepted to ACL 2023! |
| 02-06 | I'm attending AAAI 2023 in Washington, DC. Will chair a session for the special track on Safe and Robust AI on Feb 12. And I will also take a trip to NYC. Ping me if you want to meet up! :) |
| 01-01 | Will serve as an Area Chair for ACL 2023! |
2022
| 12-05 | I passed my PhD defense! Yay! :D |
| 09-17 | Our paper about unsupervised cross-task generalization via retrieval augmentation is accepted to NeurIPS 2022! |
| 09-01 | Talk at AI2 on Improving and Evaluating the Commonsense Reasoning Ability of Language Models. |
| 04-17 | New preprint on unsupervised cross-task generalization via retrieval augmentation. We will present it as non-archival papers at Spa-NLP and LNLS workshop at ACL2022. |
| 04-07 | Our FedNLP project has been accepted by the NAACL 2022 Findings, and a joint work with Jun Yan on entity robustness has been accepted by the main conference! :) |
| 02-24 | My internship work at FAIR has been accepted to ACL 2022! |
| 02-24 | Invited as a reviewer to the TMLR (Transactions on Machine Learning Research)! It's a new venue for dissemination of machine learning research that is intended to complement JMLR while supporting the unmet needs of a growing ML community. Please consider submitting your work via OpenReview! |
| 02-08 | I finally passed my thesis proposal! Thanks a lot for the support of my committee members: Prof. Xiang Ren (chair), Prof. Cyrus Shahabi, Prof. Yan Liu, Prof. Robin Jia, and Prof. Toby Mintz. |
| 01-26 | Chenguang, Yicong, Meng, Wenhao, Xiang, and I will be giving a tutorial on "Knowledge-Augmented Methods for Natural Language Processing" at ACL 2022. |
| 01-01 | Excited to co-organize two workshops at ACL 2022 with really cool teams: CSRR (commonsense representation & reasoning) and FL4NLP (federated learning for NLP). Please follow both for more info and participate! |
2021
| 07-06 | Vered, Antoine, Lorraine and I are organizing an AKBC workshop on commonsense and KBs (CSKB@AKBC21). Please consider submitting your (published/unpublished) work there! We have some stellar speakers and panelists. Check it here. |
| 06-09 | Our paper โAutoTriggER: Named Entity Recognition with Auxiliary Trigger Extractionโ won the Best Paper Award at NAACL21 TrustNLP workshop! |
| 05-11 | Selected as one of the AI Rising Stars in Chinese Students by Baidu Research. |
| 05-06 | We have two full papers on commonsense reasoning accepted to ACL2021 (1 long + 1 findings): X-CSR and RiddleSense! |
| 04-17 | Releasing FedNLP-- A research platform for Federated Learning in NLP. [Tweet] |
| 04-17 | A new arXiv preprint with Qinyuan, CสแดssFษชแด: A Few-shot Learning Challenge for Cross-Task Generalization in NLP. [Tweet] |
| 04-07 | Our works on commonsense reasoning got covered by an article on Communications of the ACM: The Best of NLP. |
| 03-15 | Finally passed my qual exam and officially became a PhD Candidate now. [Slides] |
| 03-10 | My internship work about open-ended commonsense reasoning is accepted to NAACL21. Check our website here. |
| 01-25 | Releasing Rebiber, a simple tool to fix outdated arXiv citations! [Twitter] |
| 01-20 | Check out our ICLR 2021 paper on pre-training text-to-text transformers for common sense. |
2020
| 11-30 | Media coverage of CommonGen: The Register , Tech Xplore , Techzine , Radio.com , ScienceDaily , USC Viterbi ! |
| 11-06 | We will explore the connections between #CommonsenseAI and #ConversationalAI in the 4th Alexa Prize Socialbot Grand Challenge, as a team at USC-ISI! |
| 10-20 | We got 3 papers in EMNLP20: CommonGen, NumerSense, and MHGRN. |
| 06-26 | Invited talk on "Neuro-Symoblic Commonsense Reasoning" virtually at Fudan University hosted by Prof. Zhongyu Wei. |
| 05-15 | My google internship work was accepted to KDD 2020 as a full research paper! Thanks to my amazing mentors: Ying, Nguyen, and Sandeep! |
| 04-23 | Our NERO paper got BEST PAPER Runner-Up (2 out of 1500 submissions) in The Web Conf (WWW) 2020. |
| 04-03 | Three papers have been accepted to the ACL 2020! Thanks to my wonderful collaborators. |
2019
| 12-19 | Had a great week in Beijing & invited talks at THU (hosted by Prof. Zhiyuan Liu), MSRA (hosted by Dr. Nan Duan), and PKU (hosted by Yansong Feng). |
| 12-01 | I will work as a research intern at Google AI again in 2020 summer, with William W. Cohen's team in Pittsburgh. |
| 11-13 | Invited talk on "Commonsense Reasoning for Natural Language Understanding and Generation" at Westlake University, Hangzhou, China. |
| 11-02 | Traveling for EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019 in Hong Kong, China. |
| 08-12 | Our work KagNet for commonsense reasoning is accepted as an long paper (w/ oral presentation) to EMNLP-IJCNLP 2019. |
| 08-01 | The AlpacaTag annotation framework (ACL 2019 demo) is online now! |
| 05-19 | Our work in building active learning-based sequence tagging annotation framework has been accepted to ACL 2019. |
| 01-10 | Will take a research internship at Google AI in the comming summer! |
2018
| 11-11 | Had my very first travel in Europe for the EMNLP! Love Paris, Amsterdam, and Brussels!!! |
| 08-10 | Two papers have been accepted to the EMNLP 2018 !! |
| 07-24 | Attended the ACL 2018 and had a wonderful travel in Melbourne & Sydney! |
| 06-27 | Succeeded in my Bachelor's Thesis Defense and earned Best Thesis Award (Top 1% at SJTU & 1st in the CSE Department.) |
| 05-29 | Invited as a reviewer of EMNLP 2018! |
| 05-29 | Will be a volunteer for the ACL 2018. And thanks to the ACL Walker Fund for the support towards my travel expenses. |
| 04-21 | Two papers have been accepted to the ACL 2018 !! |
| 04-03 | I will become a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at USC/ISI with an Annenberg Fellowship Award this fall. |