Wenyu Du

Wenyu Du

PhD Candidate

The University of Hong Kong

Biography

I am a PhD candidate at the University of Hong Kong, under the supervision of Professor Reynold Cheng. I work on natural language processing and machine learning. Before joining HKU, I received my MSc and BSc from University of Southampton and University of Nottingham respectively. Please refer to CV for detail.

Current Interests

  • Efficient training and deployment of large-scale models
  • Interpreting (reasoning) mechanisms for neural models
  • System2-centric (multimodal) models

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy

    University of Hong Kong

  • MSc in Data Science

    University of Southampton

  • BSc in Computer Science

    University of Nottingham

Selected Publications

* = equal contribution

f-Divergence Minimization for Sequence-Level Knowledge Distillation. The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL, Main), 2023.

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Contact

  • University of Hong Kong, MW104, Meng Wah Complex Building, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong