Papers by Yiren Wang
Leveraging GPT-4 for Automatic Translation Post-Editing (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Neural Machine Translation models still require translation post-editing to rectify errors and enhance quality under critical settings. |
| Approach: | They use GPT-4 to automatically post-edit NMT outputs across several language pairs . they show that GPT4 is adept at translation post- editing, producing meaningful edits . |
| Outcome: | The proposed translation post-editor improves on state-of-the-art language models on English-Chinese, English-German, Chinese-English and German-English language pairs. |
Depth Growing for Neural Machine Translation (P19-1)
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| Challenge: | Neural machine translation models with tens and even more than a hundred blocks have shown effectiveness in image recognition. |
| Approach: | They propose a two-stage approach with three specially designed components to construct deeper NMT models. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach improves on WMT14 EnglishGerman and EnglishFrench translation tasks. |
Syntax-BERT: Improving Pre-trained Transformers with Syntax Trees (2021.eacl-main)
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| Challenge: | Pre-trained language models like BERT achieve superior performances in various NLP tasks without explicit consideration of syntactic information. |
| Approach: | They propose a plug-and-play framework that incorporates syntax trees into pre-trained Transformers. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves on pre-trained models on natural language understanding datasets and shows that it can be used to train pre-structured neural networks. |
InfiMM: Advancing Multimodal Understanding with an Open-Sourced Visual Language Model (2024.findings-acl)
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Haogeng Liu, Quanzeng You, Yiqi Wang, Xiaotian Han, Bohan Zhai, Yongfei Liu, Wentao Chen, Yiren Jian, Yunzhe Tao, Jianbo Yuan, Ran He, Hongxia Yang
| Challenge: | InfiMM is a multimodal large language model that adapts to complex vision-language tasks. |
| Approach: | They present a Multimodal Large Language Model that adapts to intricate vision-language tasks using large-scale training data and comprehensive training strategies. |
| Outcome: | Empirical evaluations across a variety of benchmarks underscore InfiMM’s remarkable capability in multimodal understanding. |
Multi-task Learning for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation (2020.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing multilingual neural machine translation systems rely on bitext training data, which is limited and costly to collect. |
| Approach: | They propose a multi-task learning framework that trains the model with the translation task on bitext data and two denoising tasks on monolingual data. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms pre-training models for both NMT and cross-lingual transfer learning NLU tasks. |
InfiMM-WebMath-40B: Advancing Multimodal Pre-Training for Enhanced Mathematical Reasoning (2025.findings-emnlp)
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Xiaotian Han, Yiren Jian, Xuefeng Hu, Haogeng Liu, Yiqi Wang, Qihang Fan, Yuang Ai, Huaibo Huang, Ran He, Zhenheng Yang, Quanzeng You
| Challenge: | InfiMM-WebMath-40B is a dataset of interleaved image-text documents . it consists of 24 million web pages, 85 million image URLs, and 40 billion text tokens . |
| Approach: | InfiMM-WebMath-40B is a high-quality dataset of interleaved image-text documents . it contains 24 million web pages, 85 million image URLs, and 40 billion text tokens . |
| Outcome: | InfiMM-WebMath-40B is a high-quality dataset of interleaved image-text documents . it consists of 24 million web pages, 85 million image URLs, and 40 billion text tokens . |
Exploiting Monolingual Data at Scale for Neural Machine Translation (D19-1)
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| Challenge: | Neural machine translation (NMT) is a well-known and expensive task. |
| Approach: | They propose a method to use target-side monolingual data for neural machine translation and propose 'synthetic bitext' they propose generating synthetic bitext by translating monolingual into the other domain using models pretrained on genuine bitext. |
| Outcome: | The proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art results on WMT16, WMT17, WTM18 EnglishGerman translations and WTM19 GermanFrench translations. |