Yu Zhang

Researcher, Facebook

Joined

November 2016

Names

Yu Zhang (Preferred)

Emails

****@mit.edu (Confirmed)

****@gmail.com (Confirmed)

****@csail.mit.edu (Confirmed)

****@google.com (Confirmed)

****@openai.com (Confirmed)

****@meta.com

Personal Links

DBLP

Career & Education History

Researcher

Facebook (meta.com)

2025 – Present

Research Scientist

Google (google.com)

2017 – 2023

PhD student

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)

2012 – 2017

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

James Glass

2012 – 2017

Expertise

Speech Recognition

2012 – Present

Speech Synthesis

2012 – Present

Publications

Conditional Adapters: Parameter-efficient Transfer Learning with Fast Inference
Tao Lei, Junwen Bai, Siddhartha Brahma, Joshua Ainslie, Kenton Lee, Yanqi Zhou, Nan Du, Vincent Y Zhao, Yuexin Wu, Bo Li, Yu Zhang, Ming-Wei Chang
- NeurIPS 2023 poster
- Readers: Everyone
Mu$^2$SLAM: Multitask, Multilingual Speech and Language Models
Yong Cheng, Yu Zhang, Melvin Johnson, Wolfgang Macherey, Ankur Bapna
- ICML 2023 OralPoster
- Readers: Everyone
mSLAM: Massively multilingual joint pre-training for speech and text
Ankur Bapna, Colin Cherry, Yu Zhang, Ye Jia, Melvin Johnson, Yong Cheng, Simran Khanuja, Jason Riesa, Alexis Conneau
- 16 Nov 2022
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
Ask2Mask: Guided Data Selection for Masked Speech Modeling
Murali Karthick Baskar, Andrew Rosenberg, Bhuvana Ramabhadran, Yu Zhang, Pedro Moreno
- Published: 28 Jan 2022, Last Modified: 13 Feb 2023
- ICLR 2022 Submitted
- Readers: Everyone
PnG BERT: Augmented BERT on Phonemes and Graphemes for Neural TTS
Ye Jia, Heiga Zen, Jonathan Shen, Yu Zhang, Yonghui Wu
- 06 May 2021 (modified: 16 Nov 2022)
- OpenReview Archive Direct Upload
- Readers: Everyone
WaveGrad: Estimating Gradients for Waveform Generation
Nanxin Chen, Yu Zhang, Heiga Zen, Ron J Weiss, Mohammad Norouzi, William Chan
- Published: 12 Jan 2021, Last Modified: 12 Oct 2025
- ICLR 2021 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Non-Attentive Tacotron: Robust and controllable neural TTS synthesis including unsupervised duration modeling
Jonathan Shen, Ye Jia, Mike Chrzanowski, Yu Zhang, Isaac Elias, Heiga Zen, Yonghui Wu
- 28 Sept 2020 (modified: 12 Oct 2025)
- ICLR 2021 Conference Blind Submission
- Readers: Everyone
Unsupervised Learning of Disentangled and Interpretable Representations from Sequential Data
Wei-Ning Hsu, Yu Zhang, James R. Glass
- 2017 (modified: 11 Nov 2022)
- NIPS 2017
- Readers: Everyone
Joint Learning of Phonetic Units and Word Pronunciations for ASR
Chia-ying Lee, Yu Zhang, James R. Glass
- 2013 (modified: 16 Jul 2019)
- EMNLP 2013
- Readers: Everyone

Co-Authors

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