Yi Cheng
Scholar

Yi Cheng

Google Scholar ID: 4FWRdrAAAAAJ
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Conversational AINLP for Social GoodNLP for Healthcare
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Citations
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Publications
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Preprints:
  • - Sigma: Differential Rescaling of Query, Key and Value for Efficient Language Models
  • - AutoPal: Autonomous Adaptation to Users for Personal AI Companionship
  • - No Two Devils Alike: Unveiling Distinct Mechanisms of Fine-tuning Attacks
  • - Publications:
  • - Integrative Decoding: Improve Factuality via Implicit Self-consistency (ICLR 2025)
  • - COOPER: Coordinating Specialized Agents towards a Complex Dialogue Goal (AAAI 2024)
  • - Self-Detoxifying Language Models via Toxification Reversal (EMNLP 2023)
  • - ICON: Improving Inter-Report Consistency of Radiology Report Generation via Lesion-aware Mix-up Augmentation (EMNLP 2024 Findings)
  • - Reasoning Like a Doctor: Improving Medical Dialogue Systems via Diagnostic Reasoning Process Alignment (ACL 2024 Findings)
  • - Target-oriented Proactive Dialogue Systems with Personalization: Problem Formulation and Dataset Curation (EMNLP 2023)
  • - RECAP: Towards Precise Radiology Report Generation via Dynamic Disease Progression Reasoning (EMNLP Findings, 2023)
  • - ORGan: Observation-Guided Radiology Report Generation via Tree Reasoning (ACL 2023)
  • - Medical Dialogue Generation via Dual Flow Modeling (ACL Findings, 2023)
  • - Improving Multi-turn Emotional Support Dialogue Generation with Lookahead Strategy Planning (EMNLP 2022)
Research Experience
  • - Ph.D. candidate at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
  • - Research intern at Microsoft Research Asia, working with Dr. Yeyun Gong and Dr. Xiao Liu
  • - Intern at Tencent Jarvis Research Center, under the guidance of Prof. Yefeng Zheng and Prof. Bang Liu
Education
  • - Ph.D. Student, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, supervised by Prof. Maggie Wenjie Li.
  • - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Peking University, worked with Prof. Sujian Li.
Background
  • - Research Interest: NLP techniques for social good, specifically in emotional support conversation systems, empathetic chatbots, and medical consultation dialogue systems.
  • - Professional Field: Natural Language Processing (NLP).