Hua Lu (陆华) R&D Engineer NLP Group, Baidu Campus, Shenzhen, China Email: luhua98@foxmail.com Live cheaply.

Biography

My research interests lie within Natural Language Processing, particularly in Machine Reading Comprehension and Dialogue System. Maybe a brand-new Open-Domain Dialogue System is coming, and I am looking forward to what will happen then.

Publications (Selected)

• Towards Boosting the Open-Domain Chatbot with Human Feedback
  Hua Lu*, Siqi Bao*, Huang He, Fan Wang, Hua Wu, Haifeng Wang.
  To appear at the Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023.

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• Towards Building an Open-Domain Dialogue System Incorporated with Internet Memes
  Hua Lu*, Zhen Guo*, Chanjuan Li, Yunyi Yang, Huang He, Siqi Bao.
  Proceedings of the 10th Dialog System Technology Challenge Workshop in AAAI2022. (DSTC10@AAAI2022), 2022.
  (Oral & Poster)
  

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• Relational Surrogate Loss Learning
  Tao Huang, Zekang Li, Hua Lu, Yong Shan, Shusheng Yang, Yang Feng, Fei Wang, Shan You, Chang Xu.
  International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2022.
  

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• Learning to Select External Knowledge with Multi-Scale Negative Sampling
  Huang He*, Hua Lu*, Siqi Bao, Fan Wang, Hua Wu, Zhengyu Niu, Haifeng Wang.
  Proceedings of the 9th Dialog System Technology Challenge Workshop in AAAI2021. (DSTC9@AAAI2021), 2021. (Oral)
  

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Manuscripts

• PLATO-K: Internal and External Knowledge Enhanced Dialogue Generation
  Siqi Bao*, Huang He*, Jun Xu*, Hua Lu*, Fan Wang, Hua Wu, Han Zhou, Wenquan Wu, Zheng-Yu Niu, Haifeng Wang.
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.00910 (2022).
  

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• PLATO-XL: Exploring the Large-scale Pre-training of Dialogue Generation
  Siqi Bao*, Huang He*, Fan Wang*, Hua Wu*, Haifeng Wang, Wenquan Wu, Zhihua Wu, Zhen Guo, Hua Lu, Xinxian Huang, Xin Tian, Xinchao Xu, Yingzhan Lin, Zhengyu Niu.
  arXiv preprint arXiv:2109.09519 (2021).
  

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Education

• Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

  Sep. 2017 – Jun. 2021
  B.E. in Electronic information and technology
  

Experience

• NLP Group, Baidu, Shenzhen province, China
  
  R&D Engineer

  Jul. 2021 – Now
  Research Intern

  Jun. 2020 – Jul. 2021
  • Interactive Dialogue: Large Scale Dialogue Pre-training, Long-Term Dialogue Modeling, Interactive Dialogue System.
  • Grounded Dialogue Generation: Task-oriented Conversation with Unstructured Knowledge.
• iDeepWise, Beijing, China
  
  Research Intern

  Jun. 2019 – Dec. 2019
  • Machine Reading Comprehension: Multi-hop Reading Comprehension.
  • Task-oriented Dialogue: Natural Language Understanding module (SMP2019-ECDT).

Competitions (Selected)

• First Place🏆 in the MRC Track at China AI and Law Challenge, CAIL, 2021.

  Dec. 2021
• First Place🏆 in the MOD Track at DSTC10 Challenge.

  Sep. 2021
• Second Prize🥈 in the MRC Track at CCF & Language and Intelligence Challenge(LIC), 2021.

  May. 2021
• First Place🏆 in the Interactive Evaluation of Dialog Track at DSTC9 Challenge.

  Sep. 2020
• First Place🏆 in the Task-oriented Conversationa with Unstructured Knowledge Track at DSTC9 Challenge.

  Sep. 2020
• Second Place🥈 in the MRC Track at CCF & Language and Intelligence Challenge(LIC), 2020.

  Jun. 2020
• First Place🏆 in CCF Big Data & COVID19 QA Assistant.

  Feb. 2020
• Second Place🥈 in ChID NLPCC 2019. (ACL 2019)

  Jul. 2019

Honors & Awards

• Selected as Baidu & luge Technical Expert of the Year

  Jan. 2022 – Dec. 2022
• Outstanding Graduate award (top 3%), Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  Jun. 2021

Technical Skills

• Programming Languages: PaddlePaddle, PyTorch, Python, Shell, Java, LaTeX
• Experiences: Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Docker, Linux, Git, Vim