Featured Publications

Percy Liang, Rishi Bommasani, Tony Lee, Dimitris Tsipras, Dilara Soylu, Michihiro Yasunaga, Yian Zhang, D. Narayanan, Yuhuai Wu, Ananya Kumar, Benjamin Newman, Binhang Yuan, Bobby Yan, Ce Zhang, Christian Cosgrove, Christopher D. Manning, Christopher Ré, Diana Acosta-Navas, Drew A. Hudson, E. Zelikman, Esin Durmus, Faisal Ladhak, Frieda Rong, Hongyu Ren, Huaxiu Yao, Jue Wang, Keshav Santhanam, Laurel J. Orr, Lucia Zheng, Mert Yuksekgonul, Mirac Suzgun, Nathan S. Kim, Neel Guha, Niladri S. Chatterji, O. Khattab, Peter Henderson, Qian Huang, Ryan Chi, Sang Michael Xie, Shibani Santurkar, S. Ganguli, Tatsunori Hashimoto, Thomas F. Icard, Tianyi Zhang, Vishrav Chaudhary, William Wang, Xuechen Li, Yifan Mai, Yuhui Zhang, Yuta Koreeda.
Holistic evaluation of language models [code] [website]
TMLR, 2023 (Certification: Featured)


Yian Zhang*, Alex Warstadt*, Haau-Sing Li, and Samuel R. Bowman
When Do You Need Billions of Words of Pretraining Data? [code]
Proceedings of ACL, 2021


Yian Zhang
Latent Tree Learning with Ordered Neurons: What Parses Does It Produce? [code]
Proceedings of EMNLP Workshop BlackboxNLP, 2020


Alex Warstadt, Yian Zhang, Haau-Sing Li, Haokun Liu, and Samuel R. Bowman
Learning Which Features Matter: RoBERTa Acquires a Preference for Linguistic Generalizations (Eventually) [code]
Proceedings of EMNLP, 2020


Yian Zhang, Yinmiao Li, Daniel Chin, and Gus Xia
Adaptive Multimodal Music Learning via Interactive-haptic Instrument
Proceedings of NIME, 2019


For the full list of my papers, please check out my Google Scholar page.

Blog Posts

Yian Zhang, Yifan Mai, Josselin Somerville Roberts, Rishi Bommasani, Yann Dubois, Percy Liang
HELM Instruct: A Multidimensional Instruction Following Evaluation Framework with Absolute Ratings
Stanford CRFM Blog, 2024


Yian Zhang, Haokun Liu, Haau-Sing Li, Alex Warstadt, Samuel R. Bowman
The MiniBERTas: Testing what RoBERTa learns with varying amounts of pretraining
CILVR Blog, 2020

Teaching

Teaching Assistant, CS224n: Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning, winter 2022

Service

Reviewer of ICLR, ACL, NAACL, EMNLP, ARR, AAAI, EACL, COLING, CoNLL

Volunteer, NIME 2021