Shaolei Zhang (张绍磊) is a fifth-year Ph.D. candidate (2020-2025) in Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院计算技术研究所), advised by Yang Feng (冯洋). He received his bachelor’s degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications in 2020, majoring in computer science and technology (北京邮电大学计算机科学与技术实验班).

His research interests include nature language processing, simultaneous model of text/speech and large language model. He has published over 20 papers at the top international AI/NLP conferences such as ACL, NeurIPS, ICLR, AAAI. He won the first place in the streaming transcription track of AutoSimTrans 2021.

I’m willing to communicate and share my research, and interested in opportunities in the industry, academia or postdoc. If you would like to connect with me, please feel free to reach out via Email zhangshaolei20z@ict.ac.cn or WeChat zhangshaolei0331.

🔥 News

  • 2024.05:  🎉 6 papers are accepted by ACL 2024!
  • 2023.12:  🎉 1 paper is accepted by ICASSP 2024!
  • 2023.10:  🎉 2 papers are accepted by EMNLP 2023!
  • 2023.09:  👏 Serve as Area Chair of ACL/EACL/NAACL ARR 2023!
  • 2023.09:  🎉 1 paper is accepted by NeurIPS 2023!
  • 2023.06:  🎉 Our cross-lingual aligned LLM BayLing is released.
  • 2023.05:  🎉 2 papers are accepted by ACL 2023.
  • 2023.01:  🎉 1 paper is accepted by ICLR 2023 (Spotlight)!
  • 2022.10:  🎉 3 papers are accepted by EMNLP 2022!
  • 2022.02:  🎉 3 papers are accepted by ACL 2022!

📝 Publications

Multilingual LLM
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BayLing: Bridging Cross-lingual Alignment and Instruction Following through Interactive Translation for Large Language Models
Shaolei Zhang, Qingkai Fang, Zhuocheng Zhang, Zhengrui Ma, Yan Zhou, Langlin Huang, Mengyu Bu, Shangtong Gui, Yunji Chen, Xilin Chen, Yang Feng

arXiv project project model

  • BayLing (百聆) is a LLM equipped with advanced language alignments.
  • BayLing is the first research to use language alignments to enhance LLM's multilingual capabilities.
  • BayLing is selected for inclusion in the 2022-2023 Top 100 Opensource achievements: Open100 (2022-2023), launched by the International Open Benchmark Council (BenchCouncil).
Trustworthy LLM
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TruthX: Alleviating Hallucinations by Editing Large Language Models in Truthful Space
Shaolei Zhang, Tian Yu, Yang Feng

arXiv project model PWC

  • TruthX is an inference-time method to activate the truthfulness of LLMs by editing their internal representations, thereby mitigating the hallucinations.
  • TruthX can control LLMs to generate truthful or hallucinatory responses by editing only a vector in truthful space.
  • On TruthfulQA benchmark, TruthX yields an average enhancement of 20% in truthfulness across 13 LLMs. #Ranked 2 behind GPT-4.
Speech
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StreamSpeech: Simultaneous Speech-to-Speech Translation with Multi-task Learning
Shaolei Zhang, Qingkai Fang, Shoutao Guo, Zhengrui Ma, Min Zhang, Yang Feng

arXiv project model Hits

  • StreamSpeech is an "All in One" seamless model for over 8 tasks of offline and simultaneous speech recognition, speech translation and speech synthesis.
  • StreamSpeech can present intermediate results (i.e., ASR or translation results) during simultaneous translation, offering a more comprehensive low-latency communication experience .
  • Get over 300 reposts and 100K views on Twitter!
GitHub Repo
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Awesome Simultaneous Translation
Shaolei Zhang

  • A repository that collects the tookits, common datasets and paper list related to the research on Simultaneous Translation, including text-to-text machine translation and speech-to-text translation.

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🏆 Honors and Awards

  • [2022] ICT’s Special Scholarship (Xia Peisu Award) (计算所 所长特别奖(夏培肃奖)) [Highest award in ICT/CAS, Top 2]
  • [2022] National Scholarship (国家奖学金)
  • [2021] First place in the streaming track of AutoSimTrans 2021 (organized by Baidu/Huawei/Google)
  • [2020] Beijing Outstanding Graduates Award (北京市优秀毕业生)
  • [2018] Beijing Merit Student (北京市三好学生)
  • [2017] National Scholarship (国家奖学金)

👏 Services

  • Area Chair of ACL/EACL/NAACL ARR 2023
  • Reviewer of ACL/EMNLP/COLING/NAACL/EACL/NeurIPS, Computing Survey
  • Session Chair of Student Seminar in CCL 2024
  • Session Chair of Student Seminar in YSSNLP 2024
  • 中国中文信息学会青年工作委员会 学生执委会主任 2020-2024
  • Programming Chair of CSSNLP 2020/2021/2023

📖 Educations

💬 Invited Talks

  • “大模型时代的科研选题和实践分享” on MLNLP Academic Seminar [Slides]
  • “跨语言对齐增强大模型——百聆” on AI TIME 大模型嘉年华 [Slides] [Video]
  • “如何在大模型时代找到科研切入点?” on CCMT 2023 [Slides] [Video]
  • “从机器翻译到同声传译:挑战与进展” on MLNLP Academic Seminar [Slides] [Video]
  • AI Time Youth Talk for ICLR 2023 [Video]
  • Share talks in ByteDance, Huawei, Tencent, Li Auto

💻 Internships

  • 2019.12 - 2021.12, Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, industry-university-research collaboration project, China.