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Wenhu Chen

Faculty Member

Assistant Professor, David Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo

Canada CIFAR Artificial Intelligence Chair

Wenhu Chen is currently an assistant professor in the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at University of Waterloo. He obtained his PhD from the computing science department of University of California, Santa Barbara in 2021, and he spent a wonderful postdoctoral year at Google Research. His main research interests include natural language processing, large language models, vision-language interaction, image generation, etc.

Research Interests

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Multimodal Learning
  • Knowledge Reasoning and Grounding

Highlights

  • Canada CIFAR AI Chair in 2022
  • WACV best student paper honorable mention
  • UCSB CS Outstanding Dissertation Award
  • Tencent AI Gift Award

Publications

Program of Thoughts Prompting: Disentangling Computation from Reasoning for Numerical Reasoning Tasks

Wenhu Chen and Xueguang Ma and Xinyi Wang and William W Cohen

2022

Re-imagen: Retrieval-augmented text-to-image generator

Wenhu Chen and Hexiang Hu and Chitwan Saharia and William W Cohen

2022

Explanations from Large Language Models Make Small Reasoners Better

Shiyang Li and Jianshu Chen and Yelong Shen and Zhiyu Chen and Xinlu Zhang and Zekun Li and Hong Wang and Jing Qian and Baolin Peng and Yi Mao and Wenhu Chen and Xifeng Yan

2022

Large language models are few (1)-shot table reasoners

Wenhu Chen

2022

MuRAG: Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generator for Open Question Answering over Images and Text

Wenhu Chen and Hexiang Hu and Xi Chen and Pat Verga and William W Cohen

2022

Augmenting Pre-trained Language Models with QA-Memory for Open-Domain Question Answering

Wenhu Chen and Pat Verga and Michiel de Jong and John Wieting and William Cohen

2022

Synthesizing Coherent Story with Auto-Regressive Latent Diffusion Models

Xichen Pan and Pengda Qin and Yuhong Li and Hui Xue and Wenhu Chen

2022

HybriDialogue: An Information-Seeking Dialogue Dataset Grounded on Tabular and Textual Data

Kai Nakamura and Sharon Levy and Yi-Lin Tuan and Wenhu Chen and William Yang Wang

2022

Subject-driven Text-to-Image Generation via Apprenticeship Learning

Wenhu Chen and Hexiang Hu and Yandong Li and Nataniel Ruiz and Xuhui Jia and Ming-Wei Chang and William W Cohen

2023

DePlot: One-shot visual language reasoning by plot-to-table translation

Fangyu Liu and Julian Martin Eisenschlos and Francesco Piccinno and Syrine Krichene and Chenxi Pang and Kenton Lee and Mandar Joshi and Wenhu Chen and Nigel Collier and Yasemin Altun

2022

Controllable Dialogue Simulation with In-Context Learning

Zekun Li and Wenhu Chen and Shiyang Li and Hong Wang and Jing Qian and Xifeng Yan

2022

QA Is the New KR: Question-Answer Pairs as Knowledge Bases

Wenhu Chen and William W Cohen and Michiel De Jong and Nitish Gupta and Alessandro Presta and Pat Verga and John Wieting

2022

Using meta-information in neural machine translation

Evgeny Matusov and Wenhu Chen and Shahram Khadivi

2022

On the Risk of Misinformation Pollution with Large Language Models

Yikang Pan and Liangming Pan and Wenhu Chen and Preslav Nakov and Min-Yen Kan and William Yang Wang

2023

MagicBrush: A Manually Annotated Dataset for Instruction-Guided Image Editing

Kai Zhang and Lingbo Mo and Wenhu Chen and Huan Sun and Yu Su

2023

TheoremQA: A Theorem-driven Question Answering dataset

Wenhu Chen and Ming Yin and Max Ku and Elaine Wan and Xueguang Ma and Jianyu Xu and Tony Xia and Xinyi Wang and Pan Lu

2023

MERT: Acoustic Music Understanding Model with Large-Scale Self-supervised Training

LI Yizhi and Ruibin Yuan and Ge Zhang and Yinghao Ma and Xingran Chen and Hanzhi Yin and Chenghao Xiao and Chenghua Lin and Anton Ragni and Emmanouil Benetos and Norbert Gyenge and Roger Dannenberg and Ruibo Liu and Wenhu Chen and Gus Xia and Yemin Shi and Wenhao Huang and Zili Wang and Yike Guo and Jie Fu

2023

Few-shot In-context Learning for Knowledge Base Question Answering

Tianle Li and Xueguang Ma and Alex Zhuang and Yu Gu and Yu Su and Wenhu Chen

2023

DreamEdit: Subject-driven Image Editing

Tianle Li and Max Ku and Cong Wei and Wenhu Chen

2023

MARBLE: Music Audio Representation Benchmark for Universal Evaluation

Ruibin Yuan and Yinghao Ma and Yizhi Li and Ge Zhang and Xingran Chen and Hanzhi Yin and Le Zhuo and Yiqi Liu and Jiawen Huang and Zeyue Tian and Binyue Deng and Ningzhi Wang and Wenhu Chen and Gus Xia and Wei Xue and Si Liu and Shi Wang and Ruibo Liu and Yike Guo and Jie Fu

2023

MusiLingo: Bridging Music and Text with Pre-trained Language Models for Music Captioning and Query Response

Zihao Deng and Yinghao Ma and Yudong Liu and Rongchen Guo and Ge Zhang and Wenhu Chen and Wenhao Huang and Emmanouil Benetos

2023

EDIS: Entity-Driven Image Search over Multimodal Web Content

Siqi Liu and Weixi Feng and Wenhu Chen and William Yang Wang

2023