Yapei Chang
常雅培
About Me
Hi! I’m a third-year PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Prof. Mohit Iyyer with a research focus on NLP. Prior to transferring to UMD, I was affiliated with the UMass Amherst NLP Lab, where I was also advised by Prof. Iyyer. My current research interests include but are not limited to:
- Enabling language models to better follow instructions given long inputs
- Building more robust and challenging benchmarks for long-context language models
- LLM watermarking and detection
I like gaming and tinkering with mechanical keyboards in the free time I aggregate from my fluctuating work-life balance (it’s a work in progress ┐(‘～` )┌).
Latest Timeline
- [Jan. 2025] Moved to UMD, College Park!
- [Nov. 2024] ✈ Attended EMNLP to present PostMark, a paper on watermarking blackbox LLM outputs.
- [Oct. 2024] ✈ Attended COLM to present FABLES, a paper on faithfulness evaluation in book-length summarization.
- [May 2024] ✈ Attended ICLR and gave an oral presentation for BooookScore, a paper on book-length summarization and finegrained coherence evaluation.
Publications
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EMNLP
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024. -
COLM
Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), 2024. -
ICLR
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024. -
EMNLP
Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022. -
ACL
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2022. -
ACS
Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS), 2020.
