About
My current research focuses on safety and fairness in Large Language Models. I'm also interested in broader topics related to Natural Language Processing, Computational Social Science, and Machine Learning.
News
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CLIMB is accepted to 3rd Workshop on NLP for Positive Impact!
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Received the 2022 Outstanding Student Award from Department of Computing.
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My research internship at MSRA comes to an end. A new paper "Latent Prompt Tuning for Text Summarization" during my internship is available at arXiv.
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A paper is accepted in ACL2022 main conference!
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A paper is accepted in EMNLP2021 main conference!
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Education
> PhD Student
> BSc (HONS) Financial Technology & Artificial Intelligence
> Minor In Applied Mathematics
Experience
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Microsoft Research Asia
Research Internship
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
Mentor: Dr. Xingxing Zhang
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The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Undergraduate Research Assistant
Jun 2020 - Jun 2023
Supervisor: Prof. Jing Li
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The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Honorary Junior Research Assistant
Jun 2021 - Aug 2021
Supervisor: Prof. Kam-Fai Wong
Preprints
*Indicating equal contribution
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CLIMB: A Benchmark of Clinical Bias in Large Language Models
Yubo Zhang*, Shudi Hou*, Mingyu Derek Ma, Wei Wang, Muhao Chen, Jieyu Zhao
ArXiv 2024 -
Latent Prompt Tuning for Text Summarization
Yubo Zhang, Xingxing Zhang, Xun Wang, Si-qing Chen, Furu Wei
ArXiv 2022
Publications
*Indicating equal contribution
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Doctor Recommendation in Online Health Forums via Expertise Learning
Xiaoxin Lu*, Yubo Zhang*, Jing Li, Shi Zong
ACL 2022 -
#HowYouTagTweets: Learning User Hashtagging Preferences via Personalized Topic Attention
Yuji Zhang, Yubo Zhang, Chunpu Xu, Jing Li, Ziyan Jiang and Baolin Peng
EMNLP 2021
Honours and Awards
- OpenAI's Researcher Access Program
- Outstanding Student Award (Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
- HKGov STEM Internship Scholarship
- Scholarship from Undergraduate Research and Innovation Scheme (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
Teaching and Mentoring
Teaching
- Teaching Assistant, CSCI 572: Information Retrieval and Web Search Engines (Fall 2024), USC
Mentoring
- Wendy Wu, USC undergraduate (under CURVE program)
- Shudi Hou, USC master
Services
Reviewer
- ACL Rolling Review