Howard Chen


I am a fourth year PhD student in the Princeton NLP Group and the Princeton Language + Intelligence center, co-advised by Professor Danqi Chen and Professor Karthik Narasimhan. My research goal is to build intelligent systems (e.g., LLMs, language agents, multi-modal models) that are controllable and can operate on a long interactive horizon. I am particularly interested in memory (both parametric and non-parametric), and how it plays a role mechanistically in the above contexts.

Prior to Princeton, I was an ML researcher at ASAPP and research assistant at Cornell NYC Tech. I recieved my M.Eng. from Cornell University and B.S. from National Taiwan University.

Please see my google scholar page for the up-to-date publications.

howardchen@cs.princeton.edu

news

Jun 5, 2023 I will be interning at Meta AI over the summer working with Asli Celikyilmaz and Jason Weston.
Dec 25, 2022 New preprint Controllable Text Generation with Language Constraints is out!
Sep 21, 2022 Our work on grounded language agent has been accepted to NeurIPS 2022! You can check out our demo here.
May 28, 2022 Our work on examining the robustness of extractive rationale models is accepted to NAACL 2022!
Apr 6, 2021 Check out the article that covers our newly released ABCD dataset.