Tianyu Yang
Doctoral Researcher

Research Interest
Tianyu’s current research focuses on the development of multi-modal document processing system for intelligent and automatic data ingestion. Besides, he is also interested in the general generative model and reinforcement learning.
His primary research interest can be summarized as:
- Natural Language Processing
- Reinforcement Learning
- Variational Inference
- Multi-modal Large Language Models
- Information Extraction
Contact
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SHORT CV
12/2024 – Present
Ph.D Student
University of Göttingen, Germany
08/2022 – 07/2024
Doctoral Researcher
Technichal University of Darmstadt, Germany
09/2019 – 06/2022
M.Sc. Computer Science
Civil Aviation University of China, China
09/2015 – 07/2019
B.Sc. Aircraft Manufacturing Engineering
Civil Aviation University of China, China
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Robust Utility-Preserving Text Anonymization Based on Large Language Models
Yang, Tianyu, Xiaodan Zhu, and Iryna Gurevych.
arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.11770 (2024).
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Dior-CVAE: Pre-trained Language Models and Diffusion Priors for Variational Dialog Generation
Tianyu Yang, Thy Thy Tran, and Iryna Gurevych
In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 4718–4735, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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HTKG: Deep keyphrase generation with neural hierarchical topic guidance
Zhang, Yuxiang, Tao Jiang, Tianyu Yang, Xiaoli Li, and Suge Wang.
In Proceedings of the 45th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, pp. 1044-1054. 2022.
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Hyperbolic deep keyphrase generation
Zhang, Yuxiang, Tianyu Yang, Tao Jiang, Xiaoli Li, and Suge Wang
In Joint European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, pp. 521-536. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022.
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Boosting KG-to-Text Generation via Multi-granularity Graph Representations
Yang, Tianyu, Yuxiang Zhang, and Tao Jiang
In 2022 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp. 1-9. IEEE, 2022.
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Order-guided deep neural network for emotion-cause pair prediction
Fan, Wei, Yuexuan Zhu, Ziyun Wei, Tianyu Yang, W. H. Ip, and Yuxiang Zhang
Applied Soft Computing 112 (2021): 107818.
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NEWS
Article about the research internship at NII in Tokyo
Felix Hamborg shared his experience of the research internship at National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo in the uni'kon magazine. In the article, he explains which opportunities the internship program offers, both in conducting research and exploring Japan. To read the full [...]
Our blockchain research on Spektrum.de
The German magazine Spektrum der Wissenschaft (PDF) covered our research on blockchain technologies (for instance, used in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin).
Paper about the link-based recommendations covered in Wikimedia Research Newsletter
The Wikimedia Research Newsletter, a monthly online overview of recent academic research about Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, reports on our paper "Evaluating Link-based Recommendations for Wikipedia". We will present the paper at the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries in Newark, NJ, US in [...]
Improved math rendering in Wikipedia
Wikipedia is using a new approach for rendering mathematical formulae - as of May 31st. This approach was developed by our group member Moritz Schubotz. Bitmap images representing formulae, were replaced with a combination of MathML (the web standard for [...]
CitePlag on public radio
The national public radio broadcasters Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur covered our collaborative research on Plagiarism Prevention and Detection and our prototype system CitePlag.
Talk at the University of Copenhagen on March 4th
Bela Gipp will give a public talk on “New Approaches for Intellectual Property Protection” at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark on March 4, 2016, 16:00-17:00. The event is jointly organized by the Centre for Communication and Computing and the Royal School of [...]
“DRadio Wissen” covers our research on Plagiarism Detection Software
Open: http://dradiowissen.de/beitrag/plagiatssoftware-abschreiben-wird-schwerer
Media coverage of our CitePlag research
Several media outlets recently covered our research on Plagiarism Prevention and Detection and our prototype system CitePlag. Articles appeared in the national daily newspaper "Die Welt" and the regional daily newspaper "Schwäbische Zeitung". The national public radio broadcaster "Deutschlandradio" covered CitePlag on their website and [...]
Talk at Berlin Colloquium of Library Science on November 24th
Bela Gipp will give a talk on “New Methods to Protect Intellectual Property” at the Berlin Colloquium of Library Science on November 24, 2015.
Article about OriginStamp
The technology blog "The Eclectic Light Company" presents our Bitcoin-based trusted timestamping service OriginStamp. More Information B. Gipp, N. Meuschke, and A. Gernandt, “Decentralized Trusted Timestamping using the Crypto Currency Bitcoin”, in Proceedings of the iConference 2015, Newport Beach, California, 2015. [...]
Article about CitePlag in uni’kon
An article about our plagiarism detection system CitePlag appeared in uni'kon #59. Click on the picture to see the article in high resolution.
Springer book: Citation-based Plagiarism Detection
Available in July 2014: Publisher website Pre-print download
Bela’s Jugend forscht project “GSM-Schutzengel” critically discussed in the media
This article, which discusses a "Jugend forscht" project I did more than 10 years ago, originally appeared on Netzpolitik.org. Permission of reposting was given. Vorratsdatenspeicherung von Autos: Ab nächstem Jahr durch eCall-System verpflichtend – äh „freiwillig“ von Andre Meister am 03. Juni [...]
Apply for an Internship at SciPlore – Summer 2014
We are offering a paid internship for a computer science Bachelor student, who is passionate about prototype design and development. Prerequisite is that you are a student studying at a German university. More details on prerequisites here. At SciPlore you will [...]
New release of Docear
Docear Version 1.0 is out now. We’ve added several new features and made many improvements over the past few months. What is Docear? Docear is an open-source software for literature management that is tailored to the needs of students, [...]
CitePlag received a makeover
CitePlag is the first prototype of a citation-based Plagiarism Detection (CbPD) System. The prototype was recently demonstrated at the SIGIR conference 2013. What makes CitePlag novel? In contrast to existing text-based approaches to plagiarism detection, CitePlag does not solely analyze literal text matches to determine document [...]
Invitation by the German Chancellor
Article in the Braunschweiger Zeitung (2002-06-14)
Our “Jugend forscht” Project in MDR and Sat1 News
Watch the MDR report here: Watch the Sat1 report here: For more information, take a look at our website: www.gsm-schutzengel.de
Our Jugend forscht Project: High-tec Bernhardiner
Check out our website: https://gsm-schutzengel.de/hightec-index.shtml