Bio

I’m a third year PhD student with Prof. Nigel Collier in Language Technology Lab, University of Cambridge. My research focus is in NLP and LLM, especially in LLM evaluation, Controlled Text Generation, Generation with Discourse structure, Task-oriented Dialog, Data Synthesis for aligning LLM.

News!

• 03/13/2024: We deployed a research paper searching website deep-scholar. Havea try!
• 03/13/2024: One paper got accepted by NAACL 2024, main conference. See you in Maxico City!
• 09/12/2023: I received the Best Reviewer Award from EMNLP 2023 generation track.
• 01/06/2023: I am interning at Apple AI/ML this summer.
• 03/11/2022: Going to present the paper Learning Functional Distributional Semantics with Visual Data on Cambridge Language Sciences Annual Symposium 2022.
• 25/10/2022: One paper got accepted by GEM workshop in EMNLP 2022.
• 21/03/2022: One paper got accepted by ACL 2022, main conference. See you in Dublin.

Publications

• Aligning with Human Judgement: The Role of Pairwise Preference in Large Language Model Evaluators
  Yinhong Liu, Han Zhou, Zhijiang Guo, Ehsan Shareghi, Ivan Vuli´c, Anna Korhonen and Nigel Collier.

• TOAD: Task-Oriented Automatic Dialogs with Diverse Response Styles
  Yinhong Liu, Yimai Fang, David Vandyke and Nigel Collier.

• Unlocking Structure Measuring: Introducing PDD, an Automatic Metric for Positional Discourse Coherence
  Yinhong Liu, Yixuan Su, Ehsan Shareghi and Nigel Collier. [code]
  NAACL, main conference. 2024.

• Instruct-SCTG: Guiding Sequential Controlled Text Generation through Instructions
  Yinhong Liu, Yixuan Su, Ehsan Shareghi and Nigel Collier. [code]

• Plug-and-play Recipe Generation with Content Planning
  Yinhong Liu, Yixuan Su, Ehsan Shareghi and Nigel Collier. [code]
  EMNLP, Generation, Evaluation & Metrics (GEM) Workshop, 2022.

• Learning Functional Distributional Semantics with Visual Data[slides]
  Yinhong Liu and Guy Emerson. [code]
  ACL, main conference. 2022.

• Multi-channel audio statistical restoration
  Yinhong Liu and Simon Godsill.
  IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing, Communications and Computing (IEEE-ICSPCC), 2020.

Education

• University of Cambridge, 2021-present
  PhD in Computation, Cognition and Language. Supervisied by Prof. Nigel Collier and Prof. Ehsan Shareghi.
• University of Cambridge, 2020-2021
  Mphil in Advanced Computer Science. Supervisied by Dr. Guy Emerson.
• University of Cambridge, 2014-2018
  B.A and MEng in Information Engineering. Supervisied by Prof. Simon Godsill.

Professional Service

• Program Committee Member/ Reviewer:
  ACL Rolling Review (2022), EMNLP (2022, 2023), Generation, Evaluation & Metrics (GEM) workshop (2022, 2023), EACL (2023)
• Teaching:
  TA for Li18 Python for Computational Linguistics, 2021-2023.