Hi! I am a final year Ph.D. student at Stanford University, coadvised by Percy Liang and Tatsunori Hashimoto. My research is supported by Stanford Graduate Fellowship and Two Sigma PhD Fellowship.
I work on developing methods to overcome structural limitations of language models. My research encompasses many stages of language model development, including architecture (Diffusion-LM), adaptation (Prefix-Tuning), self-supervision (GV-consistency), decoding (Contrastive Decoding) and evaluation (AutoBencher).
Previously, I received undergraduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University, majoring in Computer Science and Applied Mathmatics and Statistics. I am fortunate to be advised by Prof. Jason Eisner.
If you're interested in getting started in research and think it'd be useful to chat, please feel free to email me.
Email: xlisali [at] stanford.edu
Links: [Github] [Google Scholar]
(for full publication list please checkout my [Google Scholar])