Yutai Hou(侯宇泰)

Computer Science PhD

Hi, I am Yutai Hou. I am now a computer science PhD of Harbin Institute of Technology advised by Wanxiang Che. My research interest focuses on Natural Language Processing, Dialogue System, Nature Language Generation

Experiences

Microsoft Research Asia

Beijing
Research Intern
2020.9 - Present

Working on Drug discovery with NLP and low-resource ML. | Mentor: Yingce Xia

Northwestern University (USA)

Evanston
Visiting Researcher
2019.3 – 2019.6

Working on Meta Learning for few-shot sequence labeling. | Mentor: Han Liu

Tencent AI Lab

Shen Zhen
Research Intern
2018.6 - 2018.10

Working on low resource task-oriented chat bot. | Mentor: Meng Fang

Microsoft Research Asia

Beijing
Research Intern
2016.7 - 2017.7

Working on Data2Text, e.g generate product description or sport news. | Mentor: Chin-yew Lin

Education

Ph.D in Computer Science

Harbin Institute of Technology
2017 - Present
Mentor: Prof. Wanxiang Che

Student in Pre-PhD program

MSRA, Pre-PHD Class
2016 - 2017
Mentor: Chin-Yew Lin

B.S. in Computer Science

Harbin Institute of Technology
2013 - 2017
Mentor: Prof. Jiqing Han

Publication and Research Work

2022

Yutai Hou, Cheng Chen, Xianzhen Luo, Bohan Li, Wanxiang Che. Inverse is Better! Fast and Accurate Prompt for Few-shot Slot Tagging (ACL 2022, Findings, CCF A) [paper] [code]

Yutai Hou, Xinghao Wang, Cheng Chen, Bohan Li, Wanxiang Che, Zhigang Chen. FewJoint: few-shot learning for joint dialogue understanding (IJMLC 2022, ESI, IF=4.38) [paper]

Yutai Hou, Hongyuan Dong, Xinghao Wang, Bohan Li, Wanxiang Che. MetaPrompting: Learning to Learn Better Prompts. (COLING 2022, CCF B) [paper]

Bohan Li, Yutai Hou, Wanxiang Che. Data Augmentation Approaches in Natural Language Processing: A Survey. (OpenAI 2022) [paper]

Yang Xu, Yutai Hou, Wanxiang Che. Language Anisotropic Cross-Lingual Model Editing. (Preprint) [paper]

2021

Yutai Hou, Yongkui Lai, Cheng Chen, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu. Learning to Bridge Metric Spaces: Few-shot Joint Learning of Intent Detection and Slot Filling (ACL 2021, Findings, CCF A) [paper]

Yutai Hou, Sanyuan Chen, Wanxiang Che, Cheng Chen, Ting Liu. C2C-GenDA: Cluster-to-Cluster Generation for Data Augmentation of Slot Filling (AAAI 2021, CCF A) [paper] [code]

Yutai Hou, Yongkui Lai, Yushan Wu, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu. Few-shot Learning for Multi-label Intent Detection (AAAI 2021, CCF A) [paper] [code]

Yutai Hou, Yingce Xia, Lijun Wu, Shufang Xie, Yang Fan, Jinhua Zhu, Wanxiang Che, Tao Qin, Tie-Yan Liu. Discovering Drug-Target Interaction Knowledge from Biomedical Literature (preprint) [paper] [code]

Yingce Xia, Jinhua Zhu, Lijun Wu, Yang Fan, Shufang Xie, Yutai Hou, Tao Qin. When Transformer Meets Graph Neural Networks (KDD 2021 - OGB-LSC)

2020

Yutai Hou, Wanxiang Che, Yongkui Lai, Zhihan Zhou, Yijia Liu, Han Liu and Ting Liu. Few-shot Slot Tagging with Collapsed Dependency Transfer and Label-enhanced Task-adaptive Projection Network (ACL 2020, CCF A) [paper] [code] [data] [slides][video]

Yutai Hou, Jiafeng Mao, Yongkui Lai, Cheng Chen, Wanxiang Che, Zhigang Chen, Ting Liu. FewJoint: A Few-shot Learning Benchmark for Joint Language Understanding (Preprint 2020) [paper] [code] [data]

Sanyuan Chen, Yutai Hou, Yiming Cui, Wanxiang Che, Ting Liu, Xiangzhan Yu. Recall and Learn: Fine-tuning Deep Pretrained Language Models with Less Forgetting. (EMNLP 2020, CCF B) [paper] [code]

Yutai Hou, Yongkui Lai, Wanxiang Che. Meta Dialog Platform: a toolkit platform for NLP Few-Shot Learning (Project) 80+ Stars [Link]

2019

Yuxuan Wang, Yutai Hou, Wanxiang Che, and Ting Liu. Static to Dynamic Word Representations: A Survey (JMLC, SCI IF=3.753) [paper]

Yutai Hou, Meng Fang, Wanxiang Che, and Ting Liu. A Corpus-free State2Seq User Simulator for Task-oriented Dialogue (CCL 2019, EI) Best poster [paper] [code] [slides]

Yutai Hou, Z Zhou, Y Liu, N Wang, W Che, H Liu, T Liu. Few-Shot Sequence Labeling with Label Dependency Transfer and Pair-wise Embedding [paper] [code]

2018

Yutai Hou, Yijia Liu, Wanxiang Che, and Ting Liu. Sequence-to-Sequence Data Augmentation for Dialogue Language Understanding (COLING 2018, CCF B) [paper] [code] [slides]

Yutai Hou, Wanxiang Che. Task-Oriented Dialogue Dataset Survey 1000+ Stars [Link]

2017

Shi R., Wang H., Wang T., Hou Y., & Tang Y. Similarity Search Combining Query Relaxation and Diversification (DASFAA 2017, CCF B) [paper]

J Wang, Yutai Hou, J Liu, Y Cao, CY Lin. A Statistical Framework for Product Description Generation (IJCNLP 2017) [paper]

Activities

2020

Talk: An Exploration of Few-shot Slot Tagging [slides] [video]

Professional Skills

Python Java Scripts Pytorch Django

Projects

Meta Dialog Platform (MDP)

(2020)
Brief: A Few-Shot Learning platform for common NLP tasks, e.g. text classification and sequence labeling.
100+ Git Stars.
Participation:Team leader.

Few-shot Dialog Understanding

(2019)
Brief: Commercial solution for Huawei and China Merchants Bank on few-shot dialogue language understanding.
Participation: Team leader.

Dialog Technology Platform

(2018)
Brief: A free-open platform for rapid development of Task-oriented chat-bot.
Demo & Doc available!
Participation: Platform Design.

Xiaodou voice assistant

(2015)
Brief: Intelligent voice APP and Award-Winning work in IBM Bluemix developer contest
Participation: Front end designation and implementation

Intelligent news robot

(2015)
Brief: A intelligence news robot project of Wujie Chuanmei Co. Ltd. (Watching Co. Ltd.).
Participation: leader of Android client and server development

Rehabilitation Medical Robot Project

(2015)
Brief: A project of Image Processing Lab that focuses on medical rehabilitation
Participation: Voice control interface implementation with java code

Honors

2021

CETC Scholarship

2020

National Scholarship

2019

Best Poster of CCL2019

2018

National University Internet Application Innovation Competition (3rd)

2017

Microsoft Research Asia · Stars of Tomorrow Internship Award (Top10%)

HIT Outstanding Graduate

Top 100 Graduation Thesis

2016

People Scholarship (Second)

People Scholarship (Third)

Suzhou Industrial Park Scholarship

2015

IBM Bluemix Developer Contest

  • Best Product Design Award
  • Mobile Group Third Prize
  • University Group Outstanding Application Award

First Prize, National Mathematical Modeling Contest Northeast Division

People Scholarship (Third)

Outstanding Youth League Cadre/ member

2014

Outstanding Youth League Cadre/ member

Outstanding Student Cadre of the University

2013

Outstanding Youth League Cadre/ member

Get in Touch

I really welcome all kinds of academic discussions, or just simply making friends.

Drop me a line at ythou AT ir DOT hit DOT edu DOT cn