Towards efficient NLP models

Speaker:
Dr. Zichao Yang

Abstract:
In recent years, advances in deep learning for NLP research have been mainly propelled by massive computation and large amounts of data. Despite the progress, those giant models still rely on in-domain data to work well in down-stream tasks, which is hard and costly to obtain in practice. In this talk, I am going to talk about my research efforts towards overcoming the challenge of learning with limited supervision by designing efficient NLP models. My research spans three directions towards this goal: designing structural neural networks models according to NLP data structures to take full advantage of labeled data, effective unsupervised models to alleviate the dependency on labeled corpus and data augmentation strategies which creates large amounts of labeled data at almost no cost.

Biography:
Zichao Yang is currently a research scientist working at Bytedance. Before that he obtained his Ph.D from CMU working with Eric Xing, Alex Smola and Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick. His research interests lie in machine learning and deep learning with applications in NLP. He has published dozens of papers in top AI/ML conferences. He obtained his MPhil degree from CUHK and bachelor degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He worked at Citadel Securities as a quantitative researcher, specializing in ML research for financial data, before joining Bytedance. He also interned in Google DeepMind, Google Brain and Microsoft Research during his Phd.

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