Mingxu TAO


mailto: thomastao [at] pku [dot] edu [dot] cn

I am now a fourth-year PhD candidate at Center for Data Science & Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology (WICT) of Peking University, supervised by Prof. Yansong FENG and Prof. Dongyan ZHAO.


I received my B.Sc. in Computer Science from the School of EECS and my B.Soc.Sc. in Economics from the National School of Development, Peking University in 2020.


My research interests are the interpretability of Large Language Models and fact-driven reasoning with LLMs.

News

  • [Feb. 2024] Our paper on potential defects of multi-modal LLMs got accepted by LREC-COLING 2024! [Paper]
  • [Feb. 2024] Our paper on Chinese-Zhuang translation got accepted by TinyPaper@ICLR 2024! [Paper]
  • [Nov. 2023] We released the largest corpus of minority languages in China to date! [Paper]
  • [Aug. 2023] Our paper on better finetuning strategy of absolute position embedding got accepted by NLPCC 2023! [Paper]
  • [May 2023] We released the first open-source Large Language Model in the legal domain! [Paper]
  • [Jan. 2023] Our paper on interpretability of lifelong learning in pre-trained language models got accepted by ICLR 2023! [Paper]


Invited Talks


Internship Experience

@Kuaishou (Beijing Dajia Internet Information Technology Co., Ltd.)
Research Intern
Aug. 2023 -- May 2024


Service

  • NLPCC Reviewer: Since 2021
  • ACL Reviewer: Since 2023
  • COLING Reviewer: Since 2023
  • EMNLP Reviewer: Since 2023
  • ARR Reviewer: Since 2023


Awards & Honors

Silver Medal of Eight (Rowing)
The First Deep Dive City League
April 21th, 2019. @Daoxiang Lake, Beijing. Served as rower.


Silver Medal of Mixed Four Curling
The Fourth Curling Competition of Universities and Colleges in Capital
June 5th-6th, 2021. @Ditan Sports Center, Beijing. Served as Third in Team WU (Team of Peking University).


Gold Medal of Men Curling
The Second Winter Games of Beijing
March 26th-27th, 2023. @Daxing Indoor Stadium, Beijing. Served as Third (knockout round) or Lead (final) in Team YUAN (Team of Haidian District).


Contact

Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University
No. 128 Zhongguancun North Street
Haidian District, Beijing, 100871
thomastao [at] pku.edu.cn