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
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
WMT - November 25, 2019
FlowSeq: Non-Autoregressive Conditional Sequence Generation with Generative Flow
Xuezhe Ma, Chunting Zhou, Xian Li, Graham Neubig, Eduard Hovy
EMNLP - November 1, 2019
On Evaluation of Adversarial Perturbations for Sequence-to-Sequence Models
Paul Michel, Xian Li, Graham Neubig, Juan Pino
NAACL - June 10, 2019
Design and Evaluation of a Social Media Writing Support Tool for People with Dyslexia
Shaomei Wu, Lindsay Reynolds, Xian Li, Francisco (Paco) Guzman
CHI - May 4, 2019
A Corpus for Multilingual Document Classification in Eight Languages
Holger Schwenk, Xian Li
LREC 2018 - May 7, 2018