Yijing Zhang

I am currently a senior CS undergrad at University of Wisconsin - Madison. I am graduating in May, 2024 with B.S degree, Honor in the Major.

My research interest is in machine learning. Specifically, I am interested in data-efficient models and robus language models.

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This is an independent research study for my senior honor thesis (73 pages) supervised under Prof. Frederic Sala . It focus on investigating the retrainability of synthetic datasets generated by fine-tuned generative models for domain-specific downstream classification tasks and the fine-tuning efficiency for generating higher-quality synthetic datasets.
Presented my work at Senior Honors Thesis Symposium 2024.

Related Topics: NLP, Foundation models, Generative models, Fine-tuning, Data Efficiency

Supervised by Prof. Pedro Morgado , we worked on highly syncrhonized audio-to-video generation, focusing on generatation of animation with audio guidance.
Resulting paper is in submission to ECCV 2024.

Related Topic: Computer vision, Generative models, Audio-to-Video.

Supervised by Prof. Frederic Sala , we worked on self-aligning models without further training. We proposed AlignEZ that uses (1) self-generated preference data; (2) representation editing to provide nearly cost-free alignment.
Resulting paper is in submission to NeurIPS 2024. Now taking a lead role for the next phase of this project.

Related Topic: NLP, Alignment.