Percy Liang
Cornell University
Percy Liang is an American computer scientist whose research focuses on machine learning, natural language processing, and foundation models. He is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and is the Director of the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM).
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Percy Liang is an American computer scientist whose research focuses on machine learning, natural language processing, and foundation models. He is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and is the Director of the Center for Research on Foundation Models (CRFM).
Affiliation
Cornell University
Top Publications
- SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text (2016) - 6,471 citations
- Prefix-Tuning: Optimizing Continuous Prompts for Generation (2021) - 2,352 citations
- On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models (2021) - 2,261 citations
- Know What You Don’t Know: Unanswerable Questions for SQuAD (2018) - 2,205 citations
- Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior (2023) - 1,894 citations
At a glance
- Full name
- Percy Liang
- ORCID
- 0000-0002-0458-6139
- OpenAlex ID
- https://openalex.org/A5025255782
Research interests
- Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning, Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning, Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
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Most-cited linked publications
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- SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text ↗2016 · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)6,471OpenAlex citations
- 2,352OpenAlex citations
- On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models ↗2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)2,261OpenAlex citations
- Know What You Don’t Know: Unanswerable Questions for SQuAD ↗2018 · Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)2,205OpenAlex citations
- Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior ↗2023 · ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)1,894OpenAlex citations
Recent linked publications
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- SQuAD: 100,000+ Questions for Machine Comprehension of Text ↗2016 · Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
- On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models ↗2021 · arXiv (Cornell University)
- Know What You Don’t Know: Unanswerable Questions for SQuAD ↗2018 · Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
- Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior ↗2023 · ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST)
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