Tianyu Gao 高天宇
I am a 5th-year PhD student at Princeton University, advised by Prof. Danqi Chen. I am also a member of the Princeton NLP group and the Princeton Language and Intelligence. Before Princeton, I received my bachelor's degree at Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Zhiyuan Liu.
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Email: [firstname]g@princeton.edu
I am on the academic job market this year and here are my CV and research statement.
Research
My research is at the intersection of natural language processing and machine learning, with a particular focus on large language models (LLMs).
I am driven by the exciting potential of LLMs in transformative applications, such as their use as information-seeking tools. I develop principled techniques and evaluations for key components of this emerging paradigm:
- Powerful semantic search with embedding models (SimCSE, LitSearch)
- Generations with citations for verifiability (ALCE)
- Long-context language models (CEPE, HELMET, ProLong)
- Instruction following (LLMBar)
- Efficient fine-tuning methods that require only a few examples (LM-BFF) and memory footprint comparable to inference (MeZO)
- Cost-effective approaches to build capable small models (Sheared-Llama)
- Techniques to accelerate pre-training (high masking rate)
- Understanding LLM capabilities (what ICL learns)
Please refer to publications for the full list of my research papers.
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