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About Me

My research interests focus on tackling NLP problems with Deep Learning methods, especially text generation tasks (e.g. Abstract Text Summarization, NMT, Story Generation etc.).

News
  • Aug. 2023

    Our paper "MSSRNet: Manipulating Sequential Style Representation for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer" got accepted in KDD 2023.

  • Sep 2022

    Our paper "GIFT: Graph-guIded Feature Transfer for Cold-Start Video Click-Through Rate Prediction" got accepted in CIKM 2022.

  • May 2022

    Our paper "MPII: Multi-Level Mutual Promotion for Inference and Interpretation" got accepted in ACL 2022.

  • May 2021

    Our paper "TopNet: Learning from Neural Topic Model to Generate Long Stories" got accepted in KDD 2021.

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Publications

My publications in recent years. "*" equal contribution.
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MSSRNet: Manipulating Sequential Style Representation for Unsupervised Text Style Transfer

Yazheng Yang, Qi Liu, Zhou Zhao

KDD 2023, Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining.

This work focuses on achieving fine-grain style manipulation and better content preservation simultaneously for unsupervised text style transfer..

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GIFT: Graph-guIded Feature Transfer for Cold-Start Video Click-Through Rate Prediction

Yi Cao, Sihao Hu, Yu Gong, Zhao Li, Yazheng Yang, Qingwen Liu, Wenwu Ou, Shouling Ji

CIKM 2022, The 31th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management.

This work is about how to solve the cold-start problem in the scenario of short-video recommendation in E-commerce platform (Taobao/Tianmao).

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MPII: Multi-Level Mutual Promotion for Inference and Interpretation

Yan Liu, Sanyuan Chen, Yazheng Yang, Qi Dai

ACL 2022

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TopNet: Learning from Neural Topic Model to Generate Long Stories

Yazheng Yang*, Boyuan Pan*, Deng Cai, Huan Sun

KDD 2021

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Self-supervised attention flow for dialogue state tracking

Boyuan Pan*, Yazheng Yang*, Bo Li, Deng Cai

Neurocomputing 2021

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Adversarial Mutual Information for Text Generation

Boyuan Pan*, Yazheng Yang*, Kaizhao Liang, Bhavya Kailkhura, Zhongming Jin, Xian-sheng Hua, Deng Cai, Bo Li

ICML 2020

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Bi-Decoder Augmented Network for Neural Machine Translation

Boyuan Pan*, Yazheng Yang*, Zhou Zhao, Yueting Zhuang, Deng Cai

Neurocomputing 2020

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Discriminate and Reconstruct: Learning from Language Model to Answer Keyword Questions

Boyuan Pan, Yazheng Yang, Yueting Zhuang, Deng Cai

The second China Symposium on Cognitive Computing and Hybrid Intelligence CCHI 2019 (oral)

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MacNet: Transferring Knowledge from Machine Comprehension to Sequence-to-Sequence Models

Boyuan Pan, Yazheng Yang, Hao Li, Zhou Zhao, Yueting Zhuang, Deng Cai, Xiaofei He

NeurIPS 2018

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Discourse Marker Augmented Network with Reinforcement Learning for Natural Language Inference

Boyuan Pan, Yazheng Yang, Zhou Zhao, Yueting Zhuang, Deng Cai, Xiaofei He

ACL 2018 (oral)

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Education & Experience

Education

  • 2017/09 - 2020/03

    M.S. in College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China).

  • 2013/08 - 2017/06

    B.S. in College of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology (Harbin, China).

Experience

  • 2020/06 - onward

    Algorithm Engineer in Alibaba Group.

  • 2019/12 - 2020/05

    Research Intern, Natural Language Computing Group, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA).