Yunmo Chen

Member of Technical Staff @ Microsoft AI · PhD, Johns Hopkins University

I am a Member of Technical Staff at Microsoft AI working on post-training and reinforcement learning. Previously, I was Senior Scientist at Bloomberg, building interactive code agents. I obtained my PhD from Johns Hopkins University, advised by Prof. Benjamin Van Durme.

News

  • 2025 New paper accepted at IWSLT 2025Streaming Sequence Transduction through Dynamic Compression
  • 2024 🏆 Outstanding Paper Award at EMNLP 2024 for Learning to Retrieve Iteratively for In-Context Learning
  • 2024 Papers accepted at ICML, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, and EACL
  • 2023 🏆 Outstanding Paper Award at EACL 2023 for Iterative Document-level Information Extraction via Imitation Learning

Selected Publications

🏆 Outstanding Paper Award Learning to Retrieve Iteratively for In-Context Learning
Yunmo Chen, Tongfei Chen, Harsh Jhamtani, Patrick Xia, Richard Shin, Jason Eisner, Benjamin Van Durme · EMNLP 2024
🏆 Outstanding Paper Award Iterative Document-level Information Extraction via Imitation Learning
Yunmo Chen, William Gantt, Weiwei Gu, Tongfei Chen, Aaron Steven White, Benjamin Van Durme · EACL 2023
Contrastive Preference Optimization: Pushing the Boundaries of LLM Performance in Machine Translation
Haoran Xu, Amr Sharaf, Yunmo Chen, Weiting Tan, Lingfeng Shen, Benjamin Van Durme, Kenton Murray, Young Jin Kim · ICML 2024
A Unified View of Evaluation Metrics for Structured Prediction
Yunmo Chen*, William Gantt*, Tongfei Chen*, Aaron Steven White, Benjamin Van Durme · EMNLP 2023
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