Currently a Ph.D candidate on Computer Science, in Oregon State University, previously got my B.S. from ECNU (Shanghai) in 2017.

My thesis is on Natural Language Processing and Neural Machine Translation.

Experiences

• Jun 2021 - Sep 2021: Research Intern at Facebook AI Research, Speech Translation team
• Jan 2021 - Apr 2021: Research Intern at Microsoft Research, Machine Translation team
• Jun 2020 - Sep 2020: Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon Alexa, Natural Language Understanding team
• Mar 2019 - Sep 2019: Research Intern at Tencent AI Lab, Machine Translation team

Publications

• Improving Multilingual Translation by Representation and Gradient Regularization [Talk] [Code]
  Yilin Yang, Akiko Eriguchi, Alexandre Muzio, Prasad Tadepalli, Stefan Lee, Hany Hassan
  Proceedings of EMNLP 2021 (Oral)

• On the Sub-Layer Functionalities of Transformer Decoder [Talk]
  Yilin Yang, Longyue Wang, Shuming Shi, Prasad Tadepalli, Stefan Lee, Zhaopeng Tu
  Findings of EMNLP 2020

• Breaking the Beam Search Curse: A Study of (Re-)Scoring Methods and Stopping Criteria for Neural Machine Translation [Poster]
  Yilin Yang, Liang Huang, Mingbo Ma
  Proceedings of EMNLP 2018

• Ensemble Sequence Level Training for Multimodal MT: OSU-Baidu WMT18 Multimodal Machine Translation System Report
  Renjie Zheng*, Yilin Yang*, Mingbo Ma, Liang Huang (* indicates equal contribution)
  Proceedings of WMT 2018