I am a research scientist working on Machine Translation at Facebook AI. I earned my PhD at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) advised by James Hendler. Prior to Facebook, I have worked on a variety of machine learning problems at Stitch Fix, Google and Morgan Stanley.
Interests
Natural language processing, neural machine translation, multi-lingual models, few shot / zero shot learning
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Latest Publications
IWLST - August 2, 2021
FST: the FAIR Speech Translation System for the IWSLT21 Multilingual Shared Task
Yun Tang, Hongyu Gong, Xian Li, Changhan Wang, Juan Pino, Holger Schwenk, Naman Goyal
ACL - August 1, 2021
Improving Speech Translation by Understanding and Learning from the Auxiliary Text Translation Task
Yun Tang, Juan Pino, Xian Li, Changhan Wang, Dmitriy Genzel
ACL - August 1, 2021
Gender Bias Amplification During Speed-Quality Optimization in Neural Machine Translation
Adithya Renduchintala, Denise Diaz, Kenneth Heafield, Xian Li, Mona Diab
NeurIPS - December 6, 2020
Deep Transformers with Latent Depth
Xian Li, Asa Cooper Stickland, Yuqing Tang, Xiang Kong
NeurIPS - December 6, 2020
Cross-lingual Retrieval for Iterative Self-Supervised Training
Chau Tran, Yuqing Tang, Xian Li, Jiatao Gu
ACL - July 1, 2020
Addressing Posterior Collapse with Mutual Information for Improved Variational Neural Machine Translation
Arya D. McCarthy, Xian Li, Jiatao Gu, Ning Dong
WMT - November 25, 2019
Findings of the First Shared Task on Machine Translation Robustness
Xian Li, Paul Michel, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Yonatan Belinkov, Nadir Durrani, Orhan Firat, Philipp Koehn, Graham Neubig, Juan Pino, Hassan Sajjad
EMNLP - November 1, 2019
FlowSeq: Non-Autoregressive Conditional Sequence Generation with Generative Flow
Xuezhe Ma, Chunting Zhou, Xian Li, Graham Neubig, Eduard Hovy
NAACL - June 10, 2019
On Evaluation of Adversarial Perturbations for Sequence-to-Sequence Models
Paul Michel, Xian Li, Graham Neubig, Juan Pino
CHI - May 4, 2019
Design and Evaluation of a Social Media Writing Support Tool for People with Dyslexia
Shaomei Wu, Lindsay Reynolds, Xian Li, Francisco (Paco) Guzman
LREC 2018 - May 7, 2018
A Corpus for Multilingual Document Classification in Eight Languages
Holger Schwenk, Xian Li