Yizhe Zhang
About Me
I am a Staff Research Scientist at Apple MLR, primarily working on Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. Before joining Apple, I have been at Meta AI and Microsoft Research, working on natural language generation and NLP pre-training. I received my Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Duke University. Before that, I received my B.Sc. degree in Physics from Nanjing University, Kuang Yaming Honors School, in 2011.
Seeking Research Interns and FTE
Please send me an email with your latest CV if you are working on text diffusion, continuous token representations, coding LLMs/agent, AI scientist and lookahead training and are interested in a research internship or FTE position at Apple MLR.
Please send me an email with your latest CV if you are working on text diffusion, continuous token representations, coding LLMs/agent, AI scientist and lookahead training and are interested in a research internship or FTE position at Apple MLR.
Research Interests
My recent research focuses on pushing LLMs to gain more intuition and strong generalization, especially in the code domain:
Code LLM & Agents Building intelligent coding assistants and autonomous agents that understand and generate code
Long-Horizon Planning Enabling LLMs to perform complex, multi-step reasoning and planning over extended sequences
RAG & Reasoning with Continuous Tokens Retrieval-augmented generation and reasoning systems using continuous token representations
Text Diffusion Models Advancing non-autoregressive generation through diffusion-based approaches
Coding-Based AI Scientist Developing AI systems that can autonomously discover knowledge through code
Academic Service
Area Chair / Senior Program Committee:
ICLR 2023-2025 ICML 2022-2025 NeurIPS 2020-2025 ACL 2020-2021 EMNLP 2022 NAACL 2023 AAAI 2018-2021
Editorial Roles:
- Action Editor for Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR, since 2023)
- Action Editor for ACL Rolling Review (ARR, since 2023)
Organization:
- Organization Committee Member, ACL 2020
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