Yapei Chang
About Me
Hi! I’m a third-year PhD student at the UMass Amherst NLP Lab, advised by Prof. Mohit Iyyer with a research focus on NLP. Before starting my PhD, I did my undergrad at Smith College with a major in CS and a minor in Math. My research interests include but are not restricted to:
- Evaluating and improving the coherence of model-generated text in both short-form and long-form settings.
- Enabling language models to better follow instructions with long inputs.
- 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
- [Nov. 2024] ✈ Attending EMNLP in Miami, Florida.
- [Oct. 2024] ✈ Attended COLM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- [Sep. 2024] PostMark paper on watermarking blackbox LLM outputs is accepted into EMNLP main conference.
- [Jul. 2024] FABLES paper on faithfulness evaluation in book-length summarization is accepted into COLM.
- [May 2024] ✈ Attended ICLR in Vienna, Austria and gave my first academic presentation!
- [Feb. 2024] BooookScore paper on book-length summarization is accepted to ICLR for oral presentation.
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.
