Hi, I’m Shuyan, a final-year PhD student of the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. I am fortunately advised by Professor Graham Neubig. Before that, I received my bachelor degree in Computer Science and Technology from Harbin Institute of Technology.

I work on building autonomous agents that could understand high-level language commands. My goal is to create AI agents that would free human beings from tedious tasks and aid them in better decision makings.

We proposed an intuitive formalism for representing procedures as programs and subsequently applied this concept to broader tasks with large language models (PaL, CoCoGen). We built the first-ever hierarchical procedural knowledge base. To learn from the knowledge base and generate new and previously unseen procedures, we designed DocPrompting that reads the relevant documentation before taking actions. With the belive of “what I don’t measure, I can’t improve”, we built WebArena, a realistic and reproducible environment for building and evaluating autonomous agents that are guided by high-level natural language commands.

I am best reached by email at shuyanzh@cs.cmu.edu.

Starting Fall 2023, I’m on the job market for academia and industry

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Select Publications

* indicates equal contribution, ^ indicates mentorship

WebArena: A Realistic Web Environment for Building Autonomous Agents
Shuyan Zhou*, Frank F. Xu*, Hao Zhu, Xuhui Zhou, Robert Lo, Abishek Sridhar, Xianyi Cheng, Yonatan Bisk, Daniel Fried, Uri Alon, Graham Neubig
preprint
[Paper][Project Site][Twitter]

DocPrompting: Generating Code by Retrieving the Docs
Shuyan Zhou, Uri Alon, Frank F. Xu, Zhiruo Wang, Zhengbao Jiang, Graham Neubig
ICLR, 2023 (spotlight)
[Paper] [Code+Data]

PaL: Program-aided Language Models
Luyu Gao*, Aman Madaan*, Shuyan Zhou*, Uri Alon, Pengfei Liu, Yiming Yang, Jamie Callan, Graham Neubig
ICML, 2023
[Paper][Project Site][Twitter][Demo]

Hierarchical Prompting Assists Large Language Model on Web Navigation
Abishek Sridhar*, Robert Lo*, Frank F. Xu, Hao Zhu, Shuyan Zhou^
preprint
[Paper][Code]

Language Models of Code are Few-Shot Commonsense Learners
Aman Madaan, Shuyan Zhou, Uri Alon, Yiming Yang, Graham Neubig
EMNLP, 2022
[Paper] [Code]

Show Me More Details: Discovering Hierarchies of Procedures from Semi-structured Web Data
Shuyan Zhou*, Li Zhang*, Yue Yang, Qing Lyu, Pengcheng Yin, Chris Callison-Burch, Graham Neubig
ACL, 2022
[Paper] [Code+Data] [Demo]

Procedures as Programs: Hierarchical Control of Situated Agents through Natural Language
Shuyan Zhou, Pengcheng Yin, Graham Neubig
Structured and Unstructured Knowledge Integration Workshop at NAACL, 2022
[Paper]

And More

Execution-Based Evaluation for Open-Domain Code Generation
Zhiruo Wang, Shuyan Zhou, Daniel Fried, Graham Neubig
preprint1
[Paper][Project Site]

CodeBERTScore: Evaluating Code Generation with Pretrained Models of Code
Shuyan Zhou*, Uri Alon*, Sumit Agarwal, Graham Neubig
Deep Learning for Code Workshop at ICLR, 2023 (spotlight)
[Paper][Code]

Causal Reasoning of Entities and Events in Procedural Texts
Li Zhang*, Hainiu Xu*, Yue Yang, Shuyan Zhou, Weiqiu You, Manni Arora, Chris Callison-Burch
Findings of EACL, 2023
[Paper][Code+Data]

MCoNaLa: A Benchmark for Code Generation from Multiple Natural Languages
Zhiruo Wang* , Grace Cuenca*, Shuyan Zhou^, Frank F. Xu, Graham Neubig
Findings of EACL, 2023
[Paper] [Code+Data]

Soft Gazetteers for Low-Resource Named Entity Recognition
Shruti Rijhwani, Shuyan Zhou, Graham Neubig, Jaime Carbonell
ACL, 2020
[Paper] [Code+Data]

Improving Candidate Generation for Low-resource Cross-lingual Entity Linking
Shuyan Zhou, Shruti Rijhwani, John Wieting, Jaime Carbonell, Graham Neubig
TACL, 2020
[Paper] [Code]

Towards Zero-resource Cross-lingual Entity Linking
Shuyan Zhou, Shruti Rijhwani, Graham Neubig
Deep Learning for Low-Resource NLP Workshop at EMNLP, 2019
[Paper] [Code]

Improving Robustness of Neural Machine Translation with Multi-task Learning
Shuyan Zhou, Xiangkai Zeng, Yingqi Zhou, Antonios Anastasopoulos, Graham Neubig
Conference on Machine Translation (WMT), 2019
[Paper] [Code]

Aggregated Semantic Matching for Short Text Entity Linking
Feng Nie, Shuyan Zhou, Jing Liu, Jinpeng Wang, Chin-Yew Lin, Rong Pan
CoNLL, 2018
[Paper]

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Academic Service

• Mentoring
  • CMU Language Technologies Mentoring Program (for new graduate students; 2021)
  • CMU Graduate Application Support Organizer & Mentor (2020, 2021)
  • CMU AI Mentoring Program (for undergraduates from underrepresented groups; 2020, 2021)
• Reviewing
  • ARR 2022, AAAI 2022, ARR 2021, EACL 2021

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Teaching

• TA of CMU 11711 Advanced NLP, Fall 201
• TA of CMU 11747 Neural Network for Natural Language Processing, Spring 2021

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Experience

Master → Ph.D. of Language Technologies, Carnegie Mellon University
2018.08 - Present
Advisor: Graham Neubig

Ph.D. Resident, X, the moonshot factory
2022.05 - 2022.08
Host: Alex Polozov

Research Intern, Microsoft
2020.05 - 2020.08
Host: Kaushik Chakrabarti

B.Eng of Computer Science and Technology, Harbin Institute of Technology
2014.09 - 2018.06

Research Intern, Microsoft Research Asia
2017.07 - 2018.06
Host: Chin-Yew Lin