Hi, human / crawler!
I am Yuning Mao , a research scientist at Meta AI.
I received my Ph.D degree in Computer Science from University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC), where I was a member of Prof. Jiawei Han's Data Mining Group.
I received my Bachelor's degree from the IEEE Honored Class, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU).
My research goal is to help humans to acquire information and knowledge from unstructured content more effectively and efficiently. I have been working on a range of topics towards this goal, such as text summarization and generation, open-domain question answering, pre-trained language models, and taxonomy construction.
We're looking for research interns for summer 2023. Drop me an email if interested!
[2022-05] We released a new summarization dataset based on citation texts, CiteSum (featured in Paperswithcode newsletter). By pre-training on CiteSum, we achieve state-of-the-art zero-shot/few-shot performance in various downstream tasks of different domains [paper].
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[2021-01] Check out how to get free gains for openQA by reranking retrieved passages without any training [paper].
[2020-10] Check out how to use constrained generation to preserve the factual consistency of abstractive summarization without worsening ROUGE [paper].
[2020-09] Check out how we achieve SOTA on Natural Questions and TriviaQA using "BM25" [paper].
[2020-09] Two papers on multi-document summarization and knowledge graph reasoning are accepted to EMNLP 2020.
[2020-05] Two papers on self-supervised taxonomy enrichment and knowledge collection of product knowledge graph are accepted to KDD 2020.
[2020-04] Our new metric for summarization, FAR (facet-aware evaluation) along with a detailed analysis of CNN/Daily Mail, has been accepted to ACL 2020.
[2020-04] #WWW2020 We released the first dataset on multi-document headline generation, NewSHead, along with the NHNet model in official TensorFlow repo.
[2018-08-25] After being stuck in Australia for 42 days due to US visa issue, I finally got back to the states... Check out my adventure in Oz (游记)!
[2018-04-20] Birthday Gift: Paper on Taxonomy Induction is accepted to ACL 2018.
[2017-12-10] Performed at the annual carol concert in Foellinger Great Hall.
[2017-11-16] We had a concert at McKinley Presbyterian Church!
I enjoy coding to better my (and others') life. I love both engineering work (if it's fun) and research-oriented projects. My interests lie in NLP, ML and data mining. I write 🐍 cuz life is short.
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My love for note ♪ is equivalent to code. I enjoy 🎤 privately (and in public). I used to play 🎻 but play 🎹 and 🎸 more often now. I also compose (very basic) music at times. (I wish I had more time on music recently)
I love all kinds of creatures in various sizes. Since I was a child, I have had 🐕, 🐈, 🐓, 🦆, 🕊, 🐌, 🐛, 🕷, 🐟, 🐢, 🌸, 🌱(🍆🌶🥒...🌽🍅🍠) ... I like insects, not "bugs". I am a "professional" 🐜 keeper!
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