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Zora (Zhiruo) Wang

王芷若

PhD Student

Carnegie Mellon University

Language Technologies Institute

About Me

I am currently a 2nd year PhD student at the Language Technologies Institute at Carnegie Mellon University working with Daniel Fried and Graham Neubig. My primary research interest is to use programmatic approaches to solve real-world tasks. Particularly, I am working on:

Augmented Language Models [Survey]
  1. Leverage and improve programs
  2. Knowledge: retrieve texts [FilCo] [ReAtt] [RAGGED] and structured data [WikiTable] [TUTA] [K-BERT]
  3. Other modalities: act on images [TroVE], or map fixed LMs to images [SPAE]
Agent(ic System)s that Automate Human Labor
  1. Using LMs to do human tasks: e.g., data analysis [HiTab] software programming [ODEX] web navigation [AWM]
  2. Facilitate human verification: increase accuracy and accelerate the process [TroVE]

I am currently looking for internships for summer 2025. Feel free to reach out for chat and/or check out my CV here.

News

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  • Mar 2024: Gave a talk at the [FLAME_ (Foundation and LAnguage Model) 🔥] seminar, about [our recent survey] and [TroVE]
  • Feb 2024: Gave a talk about Language Models with Tools at the LLM as Agent Seminar, about [TroVE] and works in progress 🤫
  • Feb 2024: Gave a lecture about Evaluation (metrics and benchmarks) for the Neural Code Generation (11-891) course 💻
  • Jan 2024: TAing for the new course [11-891 Neural Code Generation], reach out if you want to discuss more project ideas 🪄
  • Nov 2023: Gave a guest lecture about Evaluation and Benchmarks for Code Generation for the Advanced NLP course (11-711) 👩‍🏫 more details [here]
  • Aug 2023: A talk about 🛠️ Tool using, learning, and making with LLMs at Code Generation Reading Group, check out the [video]
  • Apr 2023: Gave a talk about [ODEX] at the Machine Learning Methods in Software Engineering (video) hosted by JetBrains Research Team 👩‍💻

    • Upcoming Events

    My Recent Favorite Publications

    Agent Workflow Memory

    Agent Workflow Memory

    Survey on Language Models

    What Are Tools Anyway? A Survey from the Language Model Perspective

    TroVE Took Making

    TroVE: Inducing Verifiable and Efficient Toolboxes for Solving Programmatic Tasks

    Get Connected

    If you want to get connected, discuss potential project ideas, ask about CMU application, or chat about any other relevant topics, my office hours are available every Friday 4-5 pm EST. Email me to secure a time to chat!

    I often mentor a small number of students every semester, please fill out this application form if you're interested in working with me! However, as I got plenty of emails, I might not be able to reply to all of them.

    If you are from underrepresented groups, or do not have much research experience, you are encouraged to reach out!

    If You're Interested in My Name

    My name in Chinese is 王芷若, which reads as Wang, Zhiruo. It is usually hard for non-native speakers to pronounce, so you can also call me Zora (as ZR is similar to Zhi Ruo).

    I love my name, especially in Chinese characters, since it has a more beautiful meaning than in English alphabets. 芷 stands for 白芷 (Angelica dahurica) and 若 stands for 杜若 (Pollia japonica), which are two kinds of Chinese herbal medicine. Also, 芷若 is a beautiful vanilla 🌿