Ziru Chen
Ron | 陈子如 | チン シジョ
The Ohio State University
C.V.
chen.8336@osu.edu
ronch99
@RonZiruChen
I am a Ph.D. student at
OSU SunLab advised by
Prof.
Huan Sun.
My research focuses on
Natural Language Processing,
Conversational AI, and
Human-Computer Interaction. I'm
currently interested in:
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Interactive Language Agents: Large langauge
models (LLMs) have achieved astonishing results on various tasks.
With LLMs, I'm particularly interested in building language agents
that can autonomously plan for their tasks, refine their answers,
and memorize task-specific knowledge. Moreover, I value the
human-centered nature of language agents: although they excel at
instruction following, how can we enable them to proactively
collaborate with human users? When would users prefer such agents
over other mature (e.g. GUI-based) tools for their tasks, such as
database browsing and web navigation?
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Active and Continual Learning: The development of
language agents is never a one-time effort. After the initial
depolyment, how can we teach models to solve new problems via
trial-and-error and learn from their mistakes? How to adapt models
to novel language uses, especially those not covered in the
training corpus? How to turn general agents into more personalized
assistants according to the users' preference?
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Reliability and Explainability: While LLMs are
powerful, they also make silly mistakes here and there. How can we
enable models to better calibrate their predictions and explain
them in natural language? How to prevent LLMs from giving
undesired responses (e.g. misinformation, hallucination, social
bias)?
I am also interested in human languages themselves and philosophy. So
far, I can speak Chinese, English, Japanese (JLPT N2), and some
elementary Korean. My favorite quote is “Cogito, ergo sum.” (or in
English, “I think. Therefore, I am.”) by René Descartes.