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Michael J.Q. Zhang

Email: mjqzhang [at] cs.utexas.edu
Twitter: @mjqzhang
Github: @mikejqzhang
Google Scholar: here
Pronouns: he/him

About

Hello! I am a fourth year Ph.D. student in computer science at UT Austin. I am fortunate to be advised by Eunsol Choi. My primary research interests include machine learning and natural language processing.

Prior to UT, I received my undergraduate degree in computer science at the University of Washington, where I worked with Noah A. Smith. I also spent some time interning at Google Research (Summer 2022), Microsoft Research (Summer 2020), and Unbabel (Summer 2019).

Publications

  1. Clarify When Necessary: Resolving Ambiguity Through Interaction with LMs
    Michael J.Q. Zhang and Eunsol Choi.
    Preprint 2023
  2. Propagating Knowledge Updates to LMs Through Distillation
    Shankar Padmanabhan, Yasumasa Onoe, Michael J.Q. Zhang, Greg Durrett, and Eunsol Choi.
    NeurIPS 2023
  3. Mitigating Temporal Misalignment by Discarding Outdated Facts
    Michael J.Q. Zhang and Eunsol Choi.
    EMNLP 2023
  4. Selectively Answering Ambiguous Questions
    Jeremy R. Cole, Michael J.Q. Zhang, Daniel Gillick, Julian Martin Eisenschlos, Bhuwan Dhingra, and Jacob Eisenstein.
    EMNLP 2023
  5. Can LMs Learn New Entities from Descriptions? Challenges in Propagating Injected Knowledge
    Yasumasa Onoe, Michael J.Q. Zhang, Shankar Padmanabhan, Greg Durrett, and Eunsol Choi.
    ACL 2023
    [dataset / code]
  6. DIFFQG: Generating Questions to Summarize Factual Changes
    Jeremy R. Cole, Palak Jain, Julian Martin Eisenschlos, Michael J.Q. Zhang, Eunsol Choi, Bhuwan Dhingra.
    EACL 2023
    [dataset / code]
  7. Rich Knowledge Sources Bring Complex Knowledge Conflicts in QA: Recalibrating Models to Reflect Conflicting Evidences
    Hung-Ting Chen, Michael J.Q. Zhang, and Eunsol Choi.
    EMNLP 2022
  8. Entity Cloze By Date: What LMs Know About Unseen Entities
    Yasumasa Onoe, Michael J.Q. Zhang, Eunsol Choi, and Greg Durrett.
    NAACL 2022 Findings
    [dataset / code]
  9. CREAK: A Dataset for Commonsense Reasoning over Entity Knowledge
    Yasumasa Onoe, Michael J.Q. Zhang, Eunsol Choi, and Greg Durrett.
    NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks 2021
    [project page] [dataset / code]
  10. SituatedQA: Incorporating Extra-Linguistic Contexts into QA
    Michael J.Q. Zhang, and Eunsol Choi.
    EMNLP 2021 Outstanding Paper Award
    [project page] [slides]

  11. Document-level Neural MT: A Systematic Comparison
    António V. Lopes, M. Amin Farajian, Rachel Bawden, Michael Zhang*, and André F. T. Martins.
    EAMT 2020
  12. Deep Weighted Averaging Classifiers
    Dallas Card, Michael Zhang*, and Noah A. Smith.
    ACM FAT* 2019

Personal

*It has recently come to my attention that there a more than a few Michael Zhangs out there. As of 2021, I've decided to publish under the full name Michael J.Q. Zhang.

According to my father, I was named after three other MJs. In no particular order, they are Michael Jordan, Michael Jackson, and Michael J. Fox.