Bai, Fan

About Me

Postdoctoral Fellow (w/ Mark Dredze)
Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University

PhD 2023, Georgia Tech (w/ Alan Ritter)

Research Areas

• Human-centered collaboration with weak/strong AI
• Learning models with synthetic data
• Knowledge acquisition from multi-modal sources
• LLM application in high-stakes areas

Recent Papers

• Schema-Driven Information Extraction from Heterogeneous Tables
  Fan Bai, Junmo Kang, Gabriel Stanovsky, Dayne Freitag, Alan Ritter
  arXiv preprint
  [paper] [code]
• PromptAgent: Strategic Planning with Language Models Enables Expert-level Prompt Optimization
  Xinyuan Wang, Chenxi Li, Zhen Wang, Fan Bai, Haotian Luo, Jiayou Zhang, Nebojsa Jojic, Eric P Xing, Zhiting Hu
  ICLR 2024
  [paper] [code]
• Entity Tracking via Effective Use of Multi-Task Learning Model and Mention-guided Decoding
  Janvijay Singh, Fan Bai, Zhen Wang
  EACL 2023
  [paper] [code]
• SynKB: Semantic Search for Synthetic Procedures
  Fan Bai, Alan Ritter, Peter Madrid, Dayne Freitag, John Niekrasz
  EMNLP Demo 2022
  [demo] [paper] [video] [code]
• Few-Shot Anaphora Resolution in Scientific Protocols via Mixtures of In-Context Experts
  Nghia T. Le, Fan Bai, Alan Ritter
  EMNLP (Findings) 2022
  [paper] [code]
• Pre-train or Annotate? Domain Adaptation with a Constrained Budget
  Fan Bai, Alan Ritter, Wei Xu
  EMNLP 2021
  [paper] [video] [code] [slides] [poster]