Hello, I am Ying Zhang

I am a postdoc in the Natural Language Understanding Team, RIKEN Center for Advanced Intelligence Project (AIP), under the supervision of Prof. Kentaro Inui at Tohoku University.

Thank you for your interest in my profile! I am working in natural language processing, to track my newest publications, you can also visit my ORCID, Semantic Scholar, or Google Scholar.

My research focuses on natural language processing that utilizes computers to understand the text as human beings. Specifically, I am passionate about developing general functions and mechanisms that can be easily applied to pretrained large language models across various natural language generation tasks to enhance results.

For instance, I am particularly interested in addressing the issue of text degeneration. This involves training deep neural networks to assign higher probabilities for natural and grammatical texts compared to bland and repetitive texts when using likelihood as a decoding objective (Holtzman et al. 2020). It is included in my Ph.D. dissertation: Addressing Text Degeneration of Discriminative Models with Re-ranking Methods.