Boyuan Pan (潘博远)

Contact: panby AT zju.edu.cn

I'm a Third year Ph.D student at Zhejiang University in China, and now I am a visiting scholar in SunLab at Ohio State University (OSU) in USA. My research interests focus on natural language processing (NLP), especially question answering and text generation. I work in Machine Learning Group with Prof. Xiaofei He and Prof. Deng Cai. In 2016, I got my bachelor degree in the School of Mathematical Science at Zhejiang University.

In May 2017, our model (MEMEN) achieved the second place on the leaderboard of the Stanford Question Answering Dataset (SQuAD).

News

• November 2018

  I am excited to join the SunLab at the Ohio State University and work with Prof. Huan Sun!

• November 2018

  Our work in NeurIPS 2018 was invited to have a talk on the 16th China Symposium on Machine Learning Applications (MLA 2018), Nanjing, China.

• September 2018

  Our paper "MacNet: Transferring Knowledge from Machine Comprehension to Sequence-to-Sequence Models" got accepted in NeurIPS 2018, Montreal, Canada.

• April 2018

  Our paper "Discourse Marker Augmented Network with Reinforcement Learning for Natural Language Inference" got accepted in ACL 2018 (oral), Melbourne, Australia.

• May 2017

  Our Model "MEMEN" achieved the second place on the SQuAD leaderboard!

• April 2017

  Our paper "Robust Asymmetric Bayesian Adaptive Matrix Factorization" got accepted in IJCAI 2017, Melbourne, Australia.

Publications

Link to [Google Scholar]

• MacNet: Transferring Knowledge from Machine Comprehension to Sequence-to-Sequence Models

  Thirty-second Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2018)

  Boyuan Pan, Yazheng Yang, Hao Li, Zhou Zhao, Yueting Zhuang, Deng Cai, Xiaofei He

  [paper] [poster]

   

• Discourse Marker Augmented Network with Reinforcement Learning for Natural Language Inference

  Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2018) (oral)

  Boyuan Pan, Yazheng Yang, Zhou Zhao, Yueting Zhuang, Deng Cai, Xiaofei He

  [paper] [code] [slides]

   

• MEMEN: Multi-layer Embedding with Memory Networks for Machine Comprehension

  arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.09098

  Boyuan Pan, Hao Li, Zhou Zhao, Bin Cao, Deng Cai, Xiaofei He

  [paper]

   

• Robust Asymmetric Bayesian Adaptive Matrix Factorization

  Proceedings of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2017)

  Xin Guo, Boyuan Pan, Deng Cai, Xiaofei He

  [paper]

Experiences

• November 2018 - Present

  Visiting scholar at Ohio State University, Columbus, USA.

• October 2017 - September 2018

  NLP algorithm intern at YIWISE.AI, Hangzhou, China.

• November 2016 - September 2017

  NLP algorithm intern at Eigen Technology, Hangzhou, China.

• July 2015 - August 2015

  Research Intern at the Department of Statistics of North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA.

• August 2014 - September 2014

  Summer school at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA.

Professional Services

Program Committee Member: AAAI (2018), ACL (2018, 2019), NIPS (2019).

Journal Reviewer: IEEE TNNLS.

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