About me

I am a fifth year PhD student at Georgia Tech advised by Prof. Wei Xu. My current research interests lie in natural language processing, especially large langauge model evaluation.

I received my BS from University of Washington at age 20, where my mentor was Prof. Yejin Choi. I was fortunate to work with these amazing graduate students: Dr. Maxwell Forbes, Dr.Ari Holtzman, and Dr. Rik Koncel-Kedziorski.

Publications

[Updated 2024 Aug, see Google Scholar for complete list]

Improving Minimum Bayes Risk Decoding with Multi-Prompt   [Paper]
David Heineman, Yao Dou, Wei Xu
EMNLP 2024

GPT-4 Jailbreaks Itself with Near-Perfect Success Using Self-Explanation   [Paper]
Govind Ramesh, Yao Dou, Wei Xu
EMNLP 2024

Reducing Privacy Risks in Online Self-Disclosures with Language Models   [Paper] [Dataset] [Model]
Yao Dou, Isadora Krsek, Tarek Naous, Anubha Kabra, Sauvik Das, Alan Ritter, Wei Xu
ACL 2024

Thresh 🌾: A Unified, Customizable and Deployable Platform for Fine-Grained Text Evaluation   [Webpage] [GitHub] [Paper]
David Heineman, Yao Dou, Wei Xu
EMNLP 2023 (Demo)

Dancing Between Success and Failure: Edit-level Simplification Evaluation using SALSA   [Demo] [GitHub] [Paper]
David Heineman, Yao Dou, Mounica Maddela, Wei Xu
EMNLP 2023

Lens: A Learnable Evaluation Metric for Text Simplification   [Demo] [Rank and Rate ] [GitHub] [Paper]
Mounica Maddela*, Yao Dou*, David Heineman, Wei Xu
ACL 2023

Improving Large-scale Paraphrase Acquisition and Generation   [Webpage] [Paper]
Yao Dou, Chao Jiang, Wei Xu
EMNLP 2022

Is GPT-3 Text Indistinguishable from Human Text? Scarecrow 🎃: A Framework for Scrutinizing Machine Text   [Webpage] [Paper]
Yao Dou*, Maxwell Forbes*, Rik Koncel-Kedziorski, Noah A. Smith, Yejin Choi
ACL 2022

MultiTalk: A Highly-Branching Dialog Testbed for Diverse Conversations [Paper]
Yao Dou, Maxwell Forbes, Ari Holtzman, Yejin Choi
AAAI 2021

Tutorial

Automatic and Human-AI Interactive Text Generation [Webpage] [Proposal]
Yao Dou*, Philippe Laban*, Claire Cardent, Wei Xu
ACL 2024