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William Wang

Mellichamp Professor
Director, UCSB NLP Group
Director, Responsible Machine Learning Center
Computer Science
UC Santa Barbara
Email:
william@cs.ucsb.edu
Website:
Website
Twitter Link:
@WilliamWangNLP

Research Focus Areas

Research Interests

  • Natural Language Processing
    • Information Extraction
    • Social Media
    • Language & Vision
    • Spoken Language Processing
  • Machine Learning
    • Statistical Relational Learning
    • Deep Learning
    • Structure Learning
    • Reinforcement Learning
  • Artificial Intelligence
    • Knowledge Representation & Reasoning
    • Knowledge Graphs

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ICB Supported Publications

From Text to Pixel: Advancing Long-Context Understanding in MLLMs

Lu, Y., Li, X., Fu, T. J., Eckstein, M., & Wang, W. Y.
arXiv,
10.48550/arXiv.2405.14213

Emergent human-like covert attention in feedforward convolutional neural networks

Srivastava, S., Wang, W. Y., & Eckstein, M. P.
Current Biology,
10.1016/j.cub.2023.12.058

Language-Driven Artistic Style Transfer

Tsu-Jui Fu, Xin Eric Wang, William Yang Wang
European Conference on Computer Vision,
10.1007/978-3-031-20059-5_41

Neuro-Symbolic Procedural Planning with Commonsense Prompting

Yujie Lu, Weixi Feng, Wanrong Zhu, Wenda Xu, Xin Eric Wang, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang
arXiv. Proceedings of Eleventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR),
10.48550/arXiv.2206.02928

Diagnosing Vision-and-Language Navigation: What Really Matters

Wanrong Zhu, Yuankai Qi, Pradyumna Narayana, Kazoo Sone, Sugato Basu, Xin Eric Wang, Qi Wu, Miguel P. Eckstein, William Yang Wang
Proceedings of 2022 Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL),
10.48550/arXiv.2103.16561

Imagination-Augmented Natural Language Understanding

Yujie Lu , Wanrong Zhu, Xin Eric Wang, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang
ACL Anthology,
https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.326

M3L: Language-based Video Editing via Multi-Modal Multi-Level Transformers

Tsu-Jui Fu, Xin Eric Wang, Scott Grafton, Miguel Eckstein, William Yang Wang
Proceedings of Thirty-Third IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR),
10.48550/arXiv.2104.01122

A Feedforward Convolutional Neural Network with a Few Million Neurons Learns from Images to Covertly Attend to Cues and Context like Humans and an Optimal Bayesian Observer

Sudhanshu Srivastava, William Wang, and Miguel P. Eckstein
PsyArXiv Preprints,
10.31234/osf.io/tymfn

FoveaTer: Foveated Transformer for Image Classification

Aditya Jonnalagadda, William Wang, and Miguel P. Eckstein
arXiv,
10.48550/arXiv.2105.14173

Semi-Supervised Policy Initialization for Playing Games with Language Hints

Tsu-Jui Fu, William Yang Wang
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies,
10.18653/v1/2021.naacl-main.249

Comparing Visual Reasoning in Humans and AI

Shravan Murlidaran, William Yang Wang, Miguel P. Eckstein
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR),
10.48550/arXiv.2104.14102

Gaze Perception in Humans and CNN-Based Model

Nicole X. Han, William Yang Wang, Miguel P. Eckstein
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2021,
10.48550/arXiv.2104.08447

L2C: Describing Visual Differences Needs Semantic Understanding of Individuals

An Yan, Xin Eric Wang, Tsu-Jui Fu, William Yang Wang
Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics ,

SSCR: Iterative Language-Based Image Editing via Self-Supervised Counterfactual Reasoning

Tsu-Jui Fu, Xin Eric Wang, Scott T. Grafton, Miguel P. Eckstein and William Yang Wang
Proceedings of Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), ACL. ,

Counterfactual Vision-and-Language Navigation via Adversarial Path Sampling

Tsu-Jui Fu, Xin Eric Wang, Matthew Peterson, Scott Grafton, Miguel Eckstein and William Yang Wang
Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV),
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