Xian Li

RESEARCH SCIENTIST | SEATTLE, UNITED STATES

Xian Li is a research scientist working on Machine Translation at Facebook AI. Xian earned her PhD at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) advised by James Hendler. Prior to Facebook, Xian has worked on a variety of machine learning problems at Stitch Fix, Google and Morgan Stanley.

Xian's Publications

November 30, 2022

HUMAN & MACHINE INTELLIGENCE

NLP

ToKen: Task Decomposition and Knowledge Infusion for Few-Shot Hate Speech Detection

Badr Alkhamissy, Asli Celikyilmaz, Lambert Mathias, Mona Diab, Pascale Fung, Srini Iyer, Ves Stoyanov, Xian Li, Zornitsa Kozareva, Faisal Ladhak

November 30, 2022

December 21, 2021

Improving Zero-Shot Translation by Disentangling Positional Information

James Cross, Paco Guzmán, Xian Li, Danni Liu, Jan Niehues

December 21, 2021

December 06, 2021

NLP

Pay Better Attention to Attention: Head Selection in Multilingual and Multi-Domain Sequence Modeling

Hongyu Gong, Yun Tang, Juan Pino, Xian Li

December 06, 2021

August 01, 2021

Gender bias amplification during Speed-Quality optimization in Neural Machine Translation

Adi Renduchintala, Kenneth Heafield, Mona Diab, Xian Li, Denise Diaz

August 01, 2021

October 26, 2020

RESEARCH

SPEECH & AUDIO

Deep Multilingual Transformer with Latent Depth

Xian Li, Asa Cooper Stickland, Xiang Kong, Yuqing Tang

October 26, 2020

November 25, 2019

Findings of the First Shared Task onMachine Translation Robustness

Xian Li, Juan Pino, Philipp Koehn, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Graham Neubig, Hassan Sajjad, Nadir K.Durrani, Orhan Firat, Paul Michel, Yonatan Belinkov

November 25, 2019

August 15, 2019

RESEARCH

SPEECH & AUDIO

On Evaluation of Adversarial Perturbations for Sequence-to-Sequence Models

Xian Li, Juan Pino, Graham Neubig, Paul Michel

August 15, 2019