Yuwei Yin

Yuwei Yin

Adventurer | Seeker

University of British Columbia

Biography

Mr. Yuwei Yin is a graduate student in the UBC NLP Group at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, University of British Columbia. Currently, his research interest is to realize automatic natural language understanding by delving into multilingual (breaking the language barrier), multimodal (exploring the universal representation), and embodied AI (building the world model), focusing on human understanding and language acquisition mechanisms with the help of interdisciplinary clues from linguistics, psychology, cognitive science, neuroscience, biology, and more. His long-term goal is to empower AI with a brain on par with human intelligence (if it exists) and let AI, as a tool or interface, enable people to know human beings better and explore the magnificent universe. Feel free to reach out. (MISC)

Curriculum Vitae / 中文简历

Interests
  • Intelligence & Linguistics
  • Neuroscience & Metaphysics
  • Cosmology & Astrophysics
Education

  • M.Sc. in Computer Science, 2024--2026

    The University of British Columbia

  • B.Eng. in Computer Sci. & Tech., 2014--2018

    Beijing Information Science & Technology University

Work Experience

 
 
 
 
 
The University of British Columbia
Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant
The University of British Columbia
Jan 2024 – Present Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Affiliation: UBC NLP Group, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science
  • Position: Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant (Full-time, Onsite, Paid)
  • Duty: Conducting research on natural language processing; TA in UBC CS courses.
 
 
 
 
 
The University of Hong Kong
Research Assistant
The University of Hong Kong
Oct 2022 – Dec 2023 Pokfulam, Hong Kong
  • Affiliation: HKU NLP Group, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering
  • Position: Research Assistant (Full-time, Onsite, Paid)
  • Duty: Conducted research on multimodal natural language processing and FinTech.
 
 
 
 
 
Microsoft Research
Research Intern
Microsoft Research
Nov 2020 – Sep 2021 Haidian, Beijing, China
  • Affiliation: Natural Language Computing (NLC) Group, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA)
  • Position: Research Intern (Full-time, Onsite, Paid)
  • Duty: Conducted research on multilingual neural machine translation.

Honors

Award of Excellence in Starts of Tomorrow Internship Program
Microsoft Research (Asia) Sep 2021
Outstanding Graduate Award
Beijing Municipal Commission of Education Jul 2018
National Scholarship
The Ministry of Education of China Nov 2017
National Scholarship
The Ministry of Education of China Nov 2016

Publications

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Jian Yang, Shuming Ma, Li Dong, Shaohan Huang, Haoyang Huang, Yuwei Yin, Dongdong Zhang, Liqun Yang, Furu Wei, Zhoujun Li (2023). GanLM: Encoder-Decoder Pre-training with an Auxiliary Discriminator. In ACL 2023.

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Jian Yang, Yuwei Yin, Shuming Ma, Liqun Yang, Hongcheng Guo, Haoyang Huang, Dongdong Zhang, Yutao Zeng, Zhoujun Li, Furu Wei (2023). HanoiT: Enhancing Context-aware Translation via Selective Context. In DASFAA 2023.

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Jian Yang, Shaohan Huang, Shuming Ma, Yuwei Yin, Li Dong, Dongdong Zhang, Hongcheng Guo, Zhoujun Li, Furu Wei (2022). CROP: Zero-shot Cross-lingual Named Entity Recognition with Multilingual Labeled Sequence Translation. In EMNLP 2022 Findings.

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Jian Yang, Yuwei Yin, Liqun Yang, Shuming Ma, Haoyang Huang, Dongdong Zhang, Furu Wei, Zhoujun Li (2022). GTrans: Grouping and Fusing Transformer Layers for Neural Machine Translation. In IEEE TASLP.

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Jian Yang, Yuwei Yin, Shuming Ma, Dongdong Zhang, Zhoujun Li, Furu Wei (2022). High-resource Language-specific Training for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation. In IJCAI 2022.

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Jian Yang, Yuwei Yin, Shuming Ma, Dongdong Zhang, Shuangzhi Wu, Hongcheng Guo, Zhoujun Li, Furu Wei (2022). UM4: Unified Multilingual Multiple Teacher-Student Model for Zero-Resource Neural Machine Translation. In IJCAI 2022.

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Weijia Xu, Yuwei Yin, Shuming Ma, Dongdong Zhang, Haoyang Huang (2021). Improving Multilingual Neural Machine Translation with Auxiliary Source Languages. In EMNLP 2021 Findings.

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Jian Yang, Yuwei Yin, Shuming Ma, Haoyang Huang, Dongdong Zhang, Zhoujun Li, Furu Wei (2021). Multilingual Agreement for Multilingual Neural Machine Translation. In ACL 2021.

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