Jian Li (李建)

Senior Researcher

Tencent AI Lab,
Shenzhen, China

[Curriculum Vitae] [Google Scholar]

Email: lijianjack [at] gmail.com

General

Jian Li is an NLP researcher at Tencent AI Lab. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2020, supervised by Prof. Michael R. Lyu. He obtained his bachelor's degree with the Outstanding Honor from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2015. From 2019 to 2020, he was visiting Stanford University as a research scholar, hosted by Prof. Monica Lam.

Research Interests

Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Software Engineering.

Internship Opportunity

We are hiring research interns! If you are interested in pre-trained large language models (LLM), feel free to contact me!

Publications

* denotes equal contribution or corresponding author.

  • Anchun Gui*, Jian Li*, Yongdai, Nan Du, Han Xiao
    Look Before You Leap: Towards Decision-Aware and Generalizable Tool-Usage for Large Language Models
    Arxiv 2024. [PDF]

  • Pengyu Cheng*, Yifan Yang*, Jian Li*, Yongdai, Nan Du, Xiaolong Li
    Adversarial Preference Optimization: Enhancing Your Alignment via RM-LLM Game
    Findings of ACL 2024. [PDF]

  • Xianghong Fang, Jian Li, Qiang Sun, Benyou Wang,
    Rethinking the Uniformity Metric in Self-Supervised Learning
    ICLR 2024. [PDF]

  • Jian Li, Jieming Zhu, Qiwei Bi, Lifeng Shang, Zhenhua Dong, Xin Jiang, Qun Liu,
    MINER: Multi-Interest Matching Network for News Recommendation
    Findings of ACL 2022. [PDF]

  • Jian Li*, Qiwei Bi*, Lifeng Shang, Xin Jiang, Qun Liu, Hanfang Yang,
    MTRec: Multi-Task Learning over BERT for News Recommendation
    Findings of ACL 2022. [PDF]

  • Xianghong Fang, Jian Li*, Lifeng Shang, Xin Jiang, Qun Liu, Dit-Yan Yeung,
    Controlled Text Generation Using Dictionary Prior in Variational Autoencoders
    Findings of ACL 2022. [PDF]

  • Zhiming Mao, Jian Li*, Hongru Wang, Xingshan Zeng, Kam-Fai Wong,
    DIGAT: Modeling News Recommendation with Dual-Graph Interaction
    Findings of EMNLP 2022. [PDF]

  • Jian Li, Xing Wang, Zhaopeng Tu, Michael R. Lyu,
    On the Diversity of Multi-Head Attention
    Journal of Neurocomputing (SCI) [PDF]

  • Silei Xu, Giovanni Campagna, Jian Li, Monica S. Lam,
    Schema2QA: High-Quality and Low-Cost Q&A Agents for the Structured Web
    CIKM'20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management. [PDF]

  • Jian Li, Xing Wang, Baosong Yang, Shuming Shi, Michael R. Lyu, Zhaopeng Tu,
    Neuron Interaction Based Representation Composition for Neural Machine Translation
    AAAI'20: Proceedings of the 2020 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. [PDF]

  • Jian Li, Baosong Yang, Zi-Yi Dou, Xing Wang, Michael R. Lyu, Zhaopeng Tu,
    Information Aggregation for Multi-Head Attention with Routing-by-Agreement
    NAACL'19: Proceedings of the 2019 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. [PDF]

  • Baosong Yang, Jian Li, Derek Wong, Lidia Chao, Xing Wang, Zhaopeng Tu,
    Context-Aware Self-Attention Networks
    AAAI'19: Proceedings of the 2019 AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. [PDF]

  • Jian Li, Zhaopeng Tu, Baosong Yang, Michael R. Lyu and Tong Zhang
    Multi-Head Attention with Disagreement Regularization
    EMNLP'18: Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing. [PDF]

  • Jian Li, Yue Wang, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King
    Code Completion with Neural Attention and Pointer Networks
    IJCAI'18: Proceedings of the 2018 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. [PDF]

  • Jian Li, Pinjia He, Jieming Zhu, Michael R. Lyu
    Software Defect Prediction via Convolutional Neural Network
    QRS'17: Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Conference on Software Quality, Reliability and Security. [PDF]

  • Pinjia He, Jieming Zhu, Shilin He, Jian Li, Michael R. Lyu
    Towards Automated Log Parsing for Large-Scale Log Data Analysis
    TDSC'17: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2017. [PDF]

  • Pinjia He, Jieming Zhu, Shilin He, Jian Li, Michael R. Lyu
    An Evaluation Study on Log Parsing and Its Use in Log Mining
    DSN'16: Proceedings of the 46th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 2016. [PDF]

Academic Services

  • PC Member: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, AAAI, IJCAI
  • Reviewer: NeurIPS, ICML, WWW, KDD, WSDM

Selected Awards

CUHK Overseas Research Attachment Programme Scholarship
2019-2020
CUHK Postgraduate Studentship
2015-2020
National Scholarship awarded by the Ministry of Education of China (Top 2%)
2012&2013
Tanglixin Elite Scholarship awarded by UESTC (Top 1%)
2014
Meritorious Winner at the American Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (ICM)
2014
Outstanding Graduates of Sichuan Province, China
2015
Top 10 Elite Undergraduates of UESTC
2015

Teaching Assistant

CSCI3100: Software Engineering
2018/2017/2016 Spring
ENGG1110: Problem Solving By Programming
2018/2017/2016/2015    Fall