Papers by Zi Lin

7 papers
Neural-Symbolic Inference for Robust Autoregressive Graph Parsing via Compositional Uncertainty Quantification (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Pre-trained models excel at graph semantic parsing with rich annotated data, but generalize poorly to out-of-distribution and long-tail examples.
Approach: They propose a compositionality-aware approach to neural-symbolic inference informed by model confidence to capture different aspects of the graph prediction.
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art models on an English resource grammar parsing problem on standard in-domain and seven OOD corpora.
Retrieval-Augmented Parsing for Complex Graphs by Exploiting Structure and Uncertainty (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Retrieval augmentation is effective for large graph parsing tasks, but can fail to identify the most informative exemplars . structure-aware and uncertainty-guided adaptive retrieval (SUGAR) exploits two unique sources of information: structural similarity and model uncertainty.
Approach: They propose a structure-aware and uncertainty-guided adaptive retrieval approach that exploits structural similarity and model uncertainty to improve retrieval-augmented parsing for complex graph problems.
Outcome: The proposed method improves retrieval-augmented parsing for graph parsers with large output graphs and non-trivial structure.
Pruning Redundant Mappings in Transformer Models via Spectral-Normalized Identity Prior (2020.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Spectral-normalized identity priors (SNIP) is a structured pruning approach for a Transformer model.
Approach: They propose a structured pruning approach which penalizes an entire residual module toward an identity mapping.
Outcome: The proposed method improves on 5 GLUE benchmark tasks while maintaining comparable performance.
Semantic Role Labeling for Learner Chinese: the Importance of Syntactic Parsing and L2-L1 Parallel Data (D18-1)

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Challenge: a learner language (interlanguage) is an idiolect developed by a learning of a second or foreign language.
Approach: They propose to use semantic role labeling as a case task to parse interlanguages . they then evaluate three off-the-shelf SRL systems to gauge how successful they are .
Outcome: The proposed model achieves an F-score of 72.06, a 2.02 point improvement over the baseline.
Hint-Based Training for Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation (D19-1)

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Challenge: AutoRegressive Translation models have to generate tokens sequentially during decoding and thus suffer from high inference latency.
Approach: They propose to use hidden states and word alignments to help train NART models.
Outcome: The proposed model improves on the WMT14 En-De and De-En datasets but is faster in inference than the current models.
ToxicChat: Unveiling Hidden Challenges of Toxicity Detection in Real-World User-AI Conversation (2023.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: toxicity detection has been largely based on social media content, leaving the unique challenges inherent to real-world user-AI interactions insufficiently explored.
Approach: They propose a benchmark to detect toxicity in real-world user-AI conversations . they compare existing models with social media content to find toxicity .
Outcome: The proposed benchmark reveals that existing models fail to recognize toxicity in real-world user-AI conversations.
Towards Collaborative Neural-Symbolic Graph Semantic Parsing via Uncertainty (2022.findings-acl)

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Challenge: Recent work in task-independent graph semantic parsing has shifted from symbolic approaches to neural models, showing strong performance on different types of meaning representations.
Approach: They propose a framework that incorporates prior knowledge from a symbolic parser into a decision criterion for beam search to address these limitations.
Outcome: The proposed framework improves on the in-distribution test set but degrades significantly on long-tail situations while the symbolic parser performs more robustly.

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