Yanpeng Zhao (Yann)

The University of Edinburgh


My research interest is in structured prediction and latent variable models. Check out my recent work or email me.

I am a Ph.D. student in the ILCC at the University of Edinburgh, under the supervision of Prof. Ivan Titov and Mirella Lapata. I am also a member of the Edinburgh NLP. Before moving to Edinburgh, I spent three wonderful years in the SIST at ShanghaiTech University and worked with Prof. Kewei Tu.

News

• First EMNLP paper received review scores (4.5/5, 4.5/5, 4.5/5)
  “A clear step forward with novel methods and strong improvement.” – Anonymous Reviews
• First ACL paper received review scores (6/6, 5/6, 5/6)
  “The first general framework of using latent vectors for grammars.” – Anonymous Reviews

Publications

• Visually Grounded Compound PCFGs
  Yanpeng Zhao and Ivan Titov.
  EMNLP 2020. [paper], [code], [reviews].
  Best Paper Honorable Mention [link].

Preprints

• An Empirical Study of Compound PCFGs
  Yanpeng Zhao.
  Preprint 2020. [paper], [code].
• Unsupervised Transfer of Semantic Role Models from Verbal to Nominal Domain
  Yanpeng Zhao and Ivan Titov.
  Preprint 2020. [paper], [code].

Before 2018

• Gaussian Mixture Latent Vector Grammars
  Yanpeng Zhao, Liwen Zhang, Kewei Tu.
  ACL 2018 (oral). [paper], [code], [reviews].
  Nominated for the Best Paper Award.
• Structured Attentions for Visual Question Answering
  Chen Zhu, Yanpeng Zhao, Shuaiyi Huang, Kewei Tu, and Yi Ma.
  ICCV 2017 (poster). [paper], [code], [reviews].
• Learning Bayesian Network Structures Under Incremental Construction Curricula
  Yanpeng Zhao, Yetian Chen, Kewei Tu, and Jin Tian.
  Neurocomputing 2017. [paper].
• Sequence Prediction Using Neural Network Classifiers
  Yanpeng Zhao, Shanbo Chu, Yang Zhou, and Kewei Tu.
  ICGI 2016 (workshop track). [paper], [slides].
• Curriculum Learning of Bayesian Network Structures
  Yanpeng Zhao, Yetian Chen, Kewei Tu, and Jin Tian.
  ACML 2015 (oral). [paper], [code], [poster], [reviews].
• Language Style Transfer from Non-Parallel Text with Arbitrary Styles
  Yanpeng Zhao, Victoria W. Bi, Deng Cai, Xiaojiang Liu, Kewei Tu, Shuming Shi.
  Technical report, 2018. [paper].

Miscellaneous

• The avatar photo was taken during my road bike trip around the Qinghai Lake in the summer of 2012