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Lizhen Tan

3 accepted papers

2022

Knowledge Distillation Transfer Sets and their Impact on Downstream NLU Tasks

EMNLP 2022industry

Teacher-student knowledge distillation is a popular technique for compressing today’s prevailing large language models into manageable sizes that fit low-latency downstream applications. Both the teacher and the choice of transfer set used for distillation are crucial ingredients in creating a high…

Cited by 5SourcePDFScholar
2021

Case-based Reasoning for Natural Language Queries over Knowledge Bases

EMNLP 2021main

It is often challenging to solve a complex problem from scratch, but much easier if we can access other similar problems with their solutions — a paradigm known as case-based reasoning (CBR). We propose a neuro-symbolic CBR approach (CBR-KBQA) for question answering over large knowledge bases. CBR-K…

Cited by 81SourcePDFScholar
2020

Evaluating Cross-Lingual Transfer Learning Approaches in Multilingual Conversational Agent Models

COLING 2020industry

With the recent explosion in popularity of voice assistant devices, there is a growing interest in making them available to user populations in additional countries and languages. However, to provide the highest accuracy and best performance for specific user populations, most existing voice assista…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar