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Miaoran Zhang
张妙然

Ph.D. candidate
Saarland University, Saarland Informatics Campus
mzhang(at)lsv.uni-saarland.de
miaoranzhang(at)gmail.com


Short Bio

I am currently a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Spoken Language Systems (LSV) group at Saarland University, under the supervision of Prof. Dietrich Klakow. I am also a member of the Saarbrücken Graduate School of Computer Science and the SFB 1102-Information Density and Linguistic Encoding (IDeaL) project. My research interests lie in the general area of natural language processing (NLP), with a particular focus on representation analysis, multilingual modeling, and LLM alignment.

Previously, I obtained my Bachelor’s degree from Harbin Engineering University in 2014 and my Master’s degree from Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2017. Between 2017 and 2018, I worked as a Research & Development Engineer at Baidu Inc, and as an Algorithm Engineer at a startup. In 2019, I completed a research immersion lab at MPI-INF under the supervision of Prof. Bernt Schiele and Dr. Yongqin Xian.

I am currently on the job market for 2025, looking for industry positions (internship/full-time) related to NLP and LLMs. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested.

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Publications [Google Scholar][Semantic Scholar]

  1. EMNLP
    Fine-Tuning Large Language Models to Translate: Will a Touch of Noisy Data in Misaligned Languages Suffice?
    Dawei Zhu, Pinzhen Chen, Miaoran Zhang, Barry Haddow, Xiaoyu Shen, Dietrich Klakow
    Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2024
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  2. ACL
    The Impact of Demonstrations on Multilingual In-Context Learning: A Multidimensional Analysis
    Miaoran Zhang, Vagrant Gautam, Mingyang Wang, Jesujoba O Alabi, Xiaoyu Shen, Dietrich Klakow, and Marius Mosbach
    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
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  3. HuCLLM
    Human Speech Perception in Noise: Can Large Language Models Paraphrase to Improve It?
    Anupama Chingacham, Miaoran Zhang, Vera Demberg, Dietrich Klakow
    Proceedings of the 1st Human-Centered Large Language Modeling Workshop, HuCLLM 2024
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  4. ACL-SRW
    Exploring the Effectiveness and Consistency of Task Selection in Intermediate-Task Transfer Learning
    Pin-Jie Lin, Miaoran Zhang, Marius Mosbach, Dietrich Klakow
    Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL 2024 Student Research Workshop
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  5. SemEval
    AAdaM at SemEval-2024 Task 1: Augmentation and Adaptation for Multilingual Semantic Textual Relatedness
    Miaoran Zhang, Mingyang Wang, Jesujoba O Alabi, and Dietrich Klakow
    Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation, SemEval 2024
    PDF Code Best Paper Award

  6. EMNLP
    A Lightweight Method to Generate Unanswerable Questions in English
    Vagrant Gautam, Miaoran Zhang, and Dietrich Klakow
    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
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  7. NAACL
    MCSE: Multimodal Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings
    Miaoran Zhang, Marius Mosbach, David Ifeoluwa Adelani, Michael A Hedderich, and Dietrich Klakow
    Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL 2022
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  8. Spa-NLP
    Knowledge Base Index Compression via Dimensionality and Precision Reduction
    Vilém Zouhar, Marius Mosbach, Miaoran Zhang, and Dietrich Klakow
    Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Semiparametric Methods in NLP: Decoupling Logic from Knowledge, Spa-NLP 2022
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  9. EMNLP
    Preventing Author Profiling through Zero-Shot Multilingual Back-Translation
    David Adelani, Miaoran Zhang, Xiaoyu Shen, Ali Davody, Thomas Kleinbauer, Dietrich Klakow
    Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2021
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Academic Activities

Reviewing

Thesis Co-supervision

Contact

Address: Saarland University Campus, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany
Office Location: C7.1
Email: mzhang(at)lsv.uni-saarland.de



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