Xiao LIU

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Dr. Xiao LIU (刘啸 in Chinese) is a researcher in the NLC group of MSRA. His current research interests include NLP, multimodality and reasoning. He obtained his B.S. degree (June 2016) and Ph.D. degree (June 2022) from BIT and was awarded the “Excellent Doctoral Dissertation” of CIPS in 2023 (now called “Doctoral Dissertation Incentive Plan”) and of BIT in 2022.

Please visit and star our open-source project ProphetNet on generation and SimXNS on retrieval. We are hiring NLP interns! If you’re interested, please contact me through email (xiao.liu.msrasia AT microsoft.com).

Experience

2022/06 - Now Microsoft Research Asia, Natural Language Computing Group,
Researcher.
2017/09 - 2022/06 Beijing Institute of Technology, Natural Language Processing,
Doctor of Engineering, Supervisor: Heyan Huang.
2019/04 - 2019/09 Nanyang Technological University, Natural Language Processing,
Joint PhD Student funded by CSC, Supervisor: Erik Cambria & Yue Zhang.
2018/08 - 2019/03 Singapore University of Technology and Design, Natural Language Processing,
Joint PhD Student funded by CSC, Supervisor: Yue Zhang.
2012/09 - 2016/06 Beijing Institute of Technology, Computer Science,
Bachelor, Supervisor: Heyan Huang.

News

Oct 22, 2023 AR-Diffusion has been accepted by NeurIPS 2023. Allies (previously BeamSearchQA) has been accepted by the Findings of EMNLP 2023. LEAD has been accepted by WSDM 2024.
Jun 1, 2023 MASTER has been accepted by ECML-PKDD 2023.
May 1, 2023 Recent two papers AR-Diffusion on generation and BeamSearchQA on LLM response are public on arXiv. Two papers, GREE and DAEE on event extraction, are public. GREE has been accepted by TKDE and DAEE has been accepted by ACL 2023 Findings.

Academic Activity

Conference Program Committee / Reviewer: ARR, ACL, EMNLP, EACL, NAACL, CVPR, AAAI, NLPCC, ECML, NLPCC

Journal Reviewer: TASLP, TKDE, TALLIP, NEUCOM, PLoS One, JCCE

Secondary Reviewer: ACL 2018-19, EMNLP 2018-19, COLING 2018, CCL 2017, NLPCC 2016