Greetings!
Zilin Xiao is a second-year CS PhD student in
VisLang lab at
Rice University, fortunately advised by
Prof. Vicente Ordonez.
His recent research interests lie in:
- Knowledge Grounding across Different Modalities
- Foundation Models for Information Retrieval
- Modern Large Language(-Vision) Models
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[2024.09] ReHEAT is selected as oral spotlight presentation at COLM'24!
[2024.07] ReHEAT is accepted to COLM'24. We explore the connection between language models and a famous psychological cognitive trap called representativeness heuristic.
[2024.07] AutoVER is accepted to ECCV'24. We augment modern multi-modal language model with precise entity retrieval ability w/ guided generation.
[2024.05] Zilin joined Tencent AI Lab Seattle as a research intern.
[2023.10] Two first-authored papers are accepted to EMNLP'23 (InsGENEL for Main and
CoherentED for Findings).
[2023.08] Zilin is now a first-year PhD student at Rice.
[2022.08] Zilin joined EdgeML Team @ Microsoft as a gap-year research intern.
Rice University
Ph.D. in Computer Science with
Prof. Vicente Ordóñez Román
Aug 2023 - Present
Sichuan University
B.Eng. in Computer Science with
Prof. Yanan Sun
Sep 2018 - Jun 2022
Tencent AI Lab Seattle
Research Internship with
Dr. Hongming Zhang and
Dr. Tao Ge, May. 2024 - Aug. 2024
Focus on efficient decoding for large language models.
Microsoft
Residency Research Internship with
Dr. Ming Gong
and
Linjun Shou, Aug. 2022 - Jun. 2023
Focus on knowledge-aware and topic-driven entity linking with retrieval-augmented
language models.
National Scholarship
Top 0.2% nationwide, 2019
National Scholarship
Top 0.2% nationwide, 2020
Outstanding Undergraduate Thesis of Sichuan University
2022.06
Star of Computer Science, Sichuan University
2022.06
Reviewer: EMNLP 2023, ACL ARR 2024, ACL 2024 Workshop KnowledgeNLP, NeurIPS 2024, ICLR 2025
Teaching Assistant: 2024 Spring COMP 646 - Deep Learning for Vision and Language
Guest Lecture: What could be the Next Generation of LLMs?
Teaching Assistant: 2024 Fall COMP 554 - Reinforcement Learning
Hobbies (Click to Expand)
Blockchain: I believe blockchain-driven technologies will eventually change the order of global
finance. Fans of Solidity Programming, Cryptocurrencies and DeFi.
Trading: Observing the market and making profits.
Law: Law trains people to think logically. Knowledge of the Criminal Laws in Mainland China.
Flight Simulator: Enjoy Airbus A320-neo on Microsoft Flight Simulator!
