I am currently at Artificial Intelligence Research Institute of Soochow University, advised by Assoc. Prof. Juntao Li(李俊涛) and Prof. Min Zhang(张民).

Before this, I received my Bachelor’s degree (2018-2022, software engineering) from Soochow University (Outstanding Graduate and Honorary Graduate).

I was a research intern at NLC group, Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) as a part of the NUWA team, focusing on multimodal image understanding and synthesis under the mentorship of Chenfei Wu(吴晨飞) and Nan Duan(段楠).

🤔 My research interests include context length scaling, model alignment, multimodal generation, and foundation models, and I am actively exploring these areas of research …

🔥 News

💻 Publications

The code for my publications are all available at my github homepage.

(* = equal contribution)

Conference

• ICML 2024 StrokeNUWA: Tokenizing Strokes for Vector Graphic Synthesis, Zecheng Tang, Chenfei Wu, Zekai Zhang, Mingheng Ni, Shengming Yin, Yu Liu, Zhengyuan Yang, Lijuan Wang, Zicheng Liu, Juntao Li, Nan Duan |
• ICLR 2024 LayoutNUWA: Revealing the Hidden Layout Expertise of Large Language Models, Zecheng Tang, Chenfei Wu, Juntao Li, Nan Duan |
• WSDM 2024 Chinese Spelling Check, Datasets, Chinese Mobile Search Engine Yue Wang, Zilong Zheng, Zecheng Tang, Juntao Li, Zhihui Liu, Kunlong Chen, Jinxiong Chang, Qishen Zhang, Zhongyi Liu, Min Zhang
• ACL 2023 Open-ended Long Text Generation via Masked Language Modeling, Xiaobo Liang^*, Zecheng Tang^*, Juntao Li, Min Zhang |
• ACL 2023 findings Can Diffusion Model Achieve Better Performance in Text Generation? Bridging the Gap between Training and Inference!, Zecheng Tang, Pinzheng Wang, Keyan Zhou, Juntao Li, Ziqiang Cao, Min Zhang |
• NLPCC 2023 & Arxiv V2 Beyond Hard Samples: Robust and Effective Grammatical Error Correction with Cycle Self-Augmenting, Zecheng Tang, Kaiqi Feng, Juntao Li, Min Zhang |
• EMNLP 2022 Improving Temporal Generalization of Pre-trained Language Models with Lexical Semantic Change, Zhaochen Su^*, Zecheng Tang^*, Xinyan Guan, Lijun Wu, Min Zhang, Juntao Li |
• CCL 2021 Chinese grammatical error correction enhanced by data augmentation from word and character levels, Zecheng Tang, Yixin Ji, Yibo Zhao, Junhui Li

Preprint

• Sep 2023 OpenBA: An Open-Sourced 15B Bilingual Asymmetric Seq2Seq Model Pre-trained from Scratch, Juntao Li^*, Zecheng Tang^* (Student Leader), Yuyang Ding^*, Pinzheng Wang^*, et al. |
• Aug 2023 CMD: a framework for Context-aware Model self-Detoxification, Zecheng Tang, Keyan Zhou, Pinzheng Wang, Yuyang Ding, Juntao Li, Minzhang |
• Mar 2023 Visual ChatGPT: Talking, Drawing and Editing with Visual Foundation Models, Chenfei Wu, Shengming Yin, Weizhen Qi, Xiaodong Wang, Zecheng Tang, Nan Duan | |

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2024.2 Star of Tommorow Internship (Awarded by MSRA)
• 2022.6 Outstanding Graduate Student, Honorary Graduate Student (Rank 1st)
• 2022.6 Huawei Scholarship (Undergraduate) (Top 5%)

📖 Educations

• 2022.09 - current, Phd student, Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Soochow University, Suzhou.
• 2018.09 - 2022.06, Bachelor, Institute of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou.
• 2015.09 - 2018.06, Jinling Middle School, Nanjing.

💬 Invited Talks

• 2023.5, External Plugin Methods for Downstream Applications of Large Language Models, OPPO technical seminar, Shenzhen [slides]

💻 Internships

• 2023.01 - 2024.02, MSRA, NLC Group, Beijing.