Qingkai Fang | 房庆凯

I am a third-year Ph.D. student at Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICT/CAS), luckily advised by Prof. Yang Feng at ICT Natural Language Processing (ICTNLP) group. Before that, I received my B.E. degree in Computer Science and Technology from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT) in Jun. 2021.

Email: fangqingkai21b [at] ict.ac.cn / poeroz1204 [at] gmail.com

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Research

My research interests mainly lie in natural language processing and machine translation. Particularly, I am interested in:

  • Speech-to-text translation and speech-to-speech translation
  • Large language models (LLMs) for machine translation / speech translation
  • Multimodal (audio, visual, etc.) learning for machine translation

News

[2023/10] One paper about multimodal machine translation is accepted to EMNLP 2023 main conference! Thanks to all collaborators!

[2023/09] One paper about speech-to-speech translation is accepted to NeurIPS 2023! Thanks to all collaborators!

[2023/06] Our LLM BayLing (百聆) is released! BayLing is an instruction-following LLM with advanced language alignment and multi-turn interaction capability. Read our paper and try our online demo! Thanks to all collaborators!

[2023/05] Three long papers about speech translation are accepted to ACL 2023 main conference (two of them are first-authored)! Thanks to all collaborators!

[2022/10] One long paper is accepted to EMNLP 2022 main conference! Thanks to all collaborators!

[2022/07] We won first place in the Chinese-Thai track and second place in the Mongolian-Chinese track in CCMT 2022! Thanks to all collaborators!

[2022/02] Two long papers are accepted to ACL 2022 main conference! Thanks to all collaborators!

[2021/08] I start my Ph.D. life at University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS), which is located in Huairou District, Beijing, near the beautiful Yanqi Lake.

[2021/06] I obtain my B.E. degree from Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (BUPT). I will always remember the wonderful 4 years I spent here.
Preprint

BayLing: Bridging Cross-lingual Alignment and Instruction Following through Interactive Translation for Large Language Models
Shaolei Zhang, Qingkai Fang, Zhuocheng Zhang, Zhengrui Ma, Yan Zhou, Langlin Huang, Mengyu Bu, Shangtong Gui, Yunji Chen, Xilin Chen, Yang Feng
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Publications

2023

DASpeech: Directed Acyclic Transformer for Fast and High-quality Speech-to-Speech Translation
Qingkai Fang, Yan Zhou, Yang Feng
NeurIPS 2023 (CCF-A)
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Understanding and Bridging the Modality Gap for Speech Translation
Qingkai Fang, Yang Feng
Proceedings of ACL 2023 (CCF-A)
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Back Translation for Speech-to-text Translation Without Transcripts
Qingkai Fang, Yang Feng
Proceedings of ACL 2023 (CCF-A)
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CMOT: Cross-modal Mixup via Optimal Transport for Speech Translation
Yan Zhou, Qingkai Fang, Yang Feng
Proceedings of ACL 2023 (CCF-A)
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Bridging the Gap between Synthetic and Authentic Images for Multimodal Machine Translation
Wenyu Guo, Qingkai Fang, Dong Yu, Yang Feng
Proceedings of EMNLP 2023 (CCF-B)
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2022

STEMM: Self-learning with Speech-text Manifold Mixup for Speech Translation
Qingkai Fang, Rong Ye, Lei Li, Yang Feng, Mingxuan Wang
Proceedings of ACL 2022 (CCF-A)
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Neural Machine Translation with Phrase-Level Universal Visual Representations
Qingkai Fang, Yang Feng
Proceedings of ACL 2022 (CCF-A)
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Low-resource Neural Machine Translation with Cross-modal Alignment
Zhe Yang, Qingkai Fang, Yang Feng
Proceedings of EMNLP 2022 (CCF-B)
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Awards

First Academic Scholarship, at UCAS, Sep. 2023

Merit Student, at UCAS, May. 2023

Outstanding Graduates in Beijing, at BUPT, Jun. 2021

CCF Elite Collegiate Award, Aug. 2020

National Scholarship (Top 1%), at BUPT, Dec. 2019

Silver Medal, ACM-ICPC Asia Regional Contest, Shenyang Site, Oct. 2018

Silver Medal, China Collegiate Programming Contest (CCPC), Guilin Site, Oct. 2018

Bronze Medal, National Olympiad in Informatics (NOI), Jul. 2016
Services

Reviewer: ACL 2023, EMNLP 2021~2023, TALLIP



Updated at Oct. 2023