Zonghan Yang (杨宗瀚) Fourth-year doctoral student Department of Computer Science and Technology Institute for AI Industry Research Tsinghua University Email: yangzh20@mails.tsinghua.edu.cn [Featured Publications] [Service] [CV (2024.02)]

Welcome! I am a fourth-year Computer Science PhD student at Tsinghua University. I am proudly advised by Prof. Yang Liu and affiliated with both THUNLP and AIR. I also obtained my B.Eng in 2020 from Tsinghua University, majoring in Computer Science and Technology.

My current research interest lies at the intersection of foundation models and control: Control for FMs = alignment (reliability), FMs for control = agent (autonomy). The connection between the two especially fascinates me - on autonomizing agents for superalignment! My previous research includes leveraging ideas from control theories to design reliable neural architectures and algorithms (a Twitter thread here) for machine learning and NLP systems. I am constantly driven by the mysteries of the unknown, and commited to conducting goal-driven research that creates a positive impact.

• ReAct Meets ActRe: When Language Agents Enjoy Training Data Autonomy
  Zonghan Yang, Peng Li, Ming Yan, Ji Zhang, Fei Huang, and Yang Liu.
  Preprint.

      @article{yang2024react,
        title={ReAct Meets ActRe: When Language Agents Enjoy Training Data Autonomy},
        author={Yang, Zonghan and Li, Peng and Yan, Ming and Zhang, Ji and Huang, Fei and Liu, Yang.},
        journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.14589},
        year={2024},
      }
    

[bib] [arXiv]



• Towards Unified Alignment Between Agents, Humans, and Environment
  Zonghan Yang*, An Liu*, Zijun Liu*, Kaiming Liu, Fangzhou Xiong, Yile Wang, Zeyuan Yang, Qingyuan Hu, Xinrui Chen, Zhenhe Zhang, Fuwen Luo, Zhicheng Guo, Peng Li, Yang Liu.
  Preprint.

      @article{yang2024towards,
        title = {Towards Unified Alignment Between Agents, Humans, and Environment},
        author = {Yang, Zonghan and Liu, An and Liu, Zijun and Liu, Kaiming and Xiong, Fangzhou and Wang, Yile and Yang, Zeyuan and Hu, Qingyuan and Chen, Xinrui and Zhang, Zhenhe and Luo, Fuwen and Guo, Zhicheng and Li, Peng and Liu, Yang},
        journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.07744},
        year = {2024}
      }
    

[bib] [arXiv] [project webpage] [Twitter thread]



• Scaffolding Coordinates to Promote Vision-Language Coordination in Large Multi-Modal Models
  Xuanyu Lei, Zonghan Yang, Xinrui Chen, Peng Li, Yang Liu.
  Preprint.

      @article{lei2024scaffolding,
        title={Scaffolding Coordinates to Promote Vision-Language Coordination in Large Multi-Modal Models},
        author={Lei, Xuanyu and Yang, Zonghan and Chen, Xinrui and Li, Peng and Liu, Yang},
        journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.12058},
        year={2024},
      }
    

[bib] [arXiv] [project webpage] [code] [Twitter thread]



• On Robust Prefix-Tuning for Text Classification
  Zonghan Yang, Yang Liu.
  In ICLR 2022.

      @inproceedings{
        yang2022on,
        title={On Robust Prefix-Tuning for Text Classification},
        author={Zonghan Yang and Yang Liu},
        booktitle={International Conference on Learning Representations},
        year={2022},
        url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=eBCmOocUejf}
      }
    

[bib] [arXiv] [code] [slides] [blog]



• Reducing Word Omission Errors in Neural Machine Translation: A Contrastive Learning Approach
  Zonghan Yang, Cheng Yong, Yang Liu, Maosong Sun.
  In ACL 2019 (short paper).

      @inproceedings{yang-etal-2019-reducing,
        title = "Reducing Word Omission Errors in Neural Machine Translation: A Contrastive Learning Approach",
        author = "Yang, Zonghan  and
          Cheng, Yong  and
          Liu, Yang  and
          Sun, Maosong",
        booktitle = "Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics",
        month = jul,
        year = "2019",
        address = "Florence, Italy",
        publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
        url = "https://aclanthology.org/P19-1623",
        doi = "10.18653/v1/P19-1623",
        pages = "6191--6196",
      }
    

[bib] [Implementation in OpenNMT-tf]

• Reviewer (primary & secondary) for ICLR, ICML, NeurIPS, ACL, EMNLP, EACL, TACL, AAAI, IJCAI
• Co-chair for Student Research Workshop (SRW) in AACL-IJCNLP 2022: [Website] [Proceedings]
• Editor for THUMT Research Blog
• Maintainer for Machine Translation Reading List (inactive now...)
• Teaching Assistant:
  1. (40240432) Formal Language & Automaton: 2021-2022 Fall, 2022-2023 Fall, 2023-2024 Fall
  2. (14204002) Progressive English Reading & Writing: 2020-2021 Fall, 2020-2021 Spring