I work at Multimodal Agent Researcher as a Phd now in UTS NLP Group, advised by Prof. Ling Chen and Prof. Meng Fang.

I graduated from JiangSu University with a bachelor’s degree and from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Adelaide with a master’s degree, advised by Yutong Xie and Yifan Liu. I also collaborate with Zeyu Zhang from Australian Institute for Machine Learning closely.

My research interests include multimodal representation learning, LLM-based Agent and multimodal Agent. I have published 1 paper at the top international AI conferences such as NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, KDD.

To promote the communication among the Chinese ML & NLP community, we (along with other 11 young scholars worldwide) founded the MLNLP community in 2021. I am honored to be one of the chairs of the MLNLP committee.

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🔥 News

• 2023.01: I join UTS NLP Group as a PHD in Sydney!
• 2022.02: I release a modern and responsive academic personal homepage template. Welcome to STAR and FORK!

📝 Publications

🎙 Speech Synthesis

NeurIPS 2019

FastSpeech: Fast, Robust and Controllable Text to Speech
Yi Ren, Yangjun Ruan, Xu Tan, Tao Qin, Sheng Zhao, Zhou Zhao, Tie-Yan Liu

Project

• FastSpeech is the first fully parallel end-to-end speech synthesis model.
• Academic Impact: This work is included by many famous speech synthesis open-source projects, such as ESPNet . Our work are promoted by more than 20 media and forums, such as 机器之心、InfoQ.
• Industry Impact: FastSpeech has been deployed in Microsoft Azure TTS service and supports 49 more languages with state-of-the-art AI quality. It was also shown as a text-to-speech system acceleration example in NVIDIA GTC2020.

ICLR 2021

FastSpeech 2: Fast and High-Quality End-to-End Text to Speech
Yi Ren, Chenxu Hu, Xu Tan, Tao Qin, Sheng Zhao, Zhou Zhao, Tie-Yan Liu

Project

• This work is included by many famous speech synthesis open-source projects, such as PaddlePaddle/Parakeet , ESPNet and fairseq .

ICLR 2024

Mega-TTS 2: Boosting Prompting Mechanisms for Zero-Shot Speech Synthesis \ Ziyue Jiang, Jinglin Liu, Yi Ren, et al.

Project

• This work has been deployed on many TikTok products.
• Advandced zero-shot voice cloning model.

AAAI 2022

DiffSinger: Singing Voice Synthesis via Shallow Diffusion Mechanism
Jinglin Liu, Chengxi Li, Yi Ren, Feiyang Chen, Zhou Zhao

• Many video demos created by the DiffSinger community are released.

• DiffSinger was introduced in a very popular video (1600k+ views) on Bilibili!

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NeurIPS 2021

PortaSpeech: Portable and High-Quality Generative Text-to-Speech
Yi Ren, Jinglin Liu, Zhou Zhao

Project | |

• AAAI 2024 Emotion Rendering for Conversational Speech Synthesis with Heterogeneous Graph-Based Context Modeling, Rui Liu, Yifan Hu, Yi Ren, et al.
• ICML 2023 Make-An-Audio: Text-To-Audio Generation with Prompt-Enhanced Diffusion Models, Rongjie Huang, Jiawei Huang, Dongchao Yang, Yi Ren, et al.
• ACL 2023 CLAPSpeech: Learning Prosody from Text Context with Contrastive Language-Audio Pre-Training, Zhenhui Ye, Rongjie Huang, Yi Ren, et al.
• ACL 2023 FluentSpeech: Stutter-Oriented Automatic Speech Editing with Context-Aware Diffusion Models, Ziyue Jiang, Qian Yang, Jialong Zuo, Zhenhui Ye, Rongjie Huang, Yi Ren and Zhou Zhao
• ACL 2023 Revisiting and Incorporating GAN and Diffusion Models in High-Fidelity Speech Synthesis, Rongjie Huang, Yi Ren, Ziyue Jiang, et al.
• ACL 2023 Improving Prosody with Masked Autoencoder and Conditional Diffusion Model For Expressive Text-to-Speech, Rongjie Huang, Chunlei Zhang, Yi Ren, et al.
• ICLR 2023 Bag of Tricks for Unsupervised Text-to-Speech, Yi Ren, Chen Zhang, Shuicheng Yan
• INTERSPEECH 2023 StyleS2ST: zero-shot style transfer for direct speech-to-speech translation, Kun Song, Yi Ren, Yi Lei, et al.
• INTERSPEECH 2023 GenerTTS: Pronunciation Disentanglement for Timbre and Style Generalization in Cross-Lingual Text-to-Speech, Yahuan Cong, Haoyu Zhang, Haopeng Lin, Shichao Liu, Chunfeng Wang, Yi Ren, et al.
• NeurIPS 2022 Dict-TTS: Learning to Pronounce with Prior Dictionary Knowledge for Text-to-Speech, Ziyue Jiang, Zhe Su, Zhou Zhao, Qian Yang, Yi Ren, et al.
• NeurIPS 2022 GenerSpeech: Towards Style Transfer for Generalizable Out-Of-Domain Text-to-Speech, Rongjie Huang, Yi Ren, et al.
• NeurIPS 2022 M4Singer: a Multi-Style, Multi-Singer and Musical Score Provided Mandarin Singing Corpus, Lichao Zhang, Ruiqi Li, Shoutong Wang, Liqun Deng, Jinglin Liu, Yi Ren, et al. (Datasets and Benchmarks Track)
• ACM-MM 2022 ProDiff: Progressive Fast Diffusion Model for High-Quality Text-to-Speech, Rongjie Huang, Zhou Zhao, Huadai Liu, Jinglin Liu, Chenye Cui, Yi Ren,
• ACM-MM 2022 SingGAN: Generative Adversarial Network For High-Fidelity Singing Voice Generation, Rongjie Huang, Chenye Cui, Chen Feiayng, Yi Ren, et al.
• IJCAI 2022 SyntaSpeech: Syntax-Aware Generative Adversarial Text-to-Speech, Zhenhui Ye, Zhou Zhao, Yi Ren, et al.
• IJCAI 2022 (Oral) EditSinger: Zero-Shot Text-Based Singing Voice Editing System with Diverse Prosody Modeling, Lichao Zhang, Zhou Zhao, Yi Ren, et al.
• IJCAI 2022 FastDiff: A Fast Conditional Diffusion Model for High-Quality Speech Synthesis, Rongjie Huang, Max W. Y. Lam, Jun Wang, Dan Su, Dong Yu, Yi Ren, Zhou Zhao, (Oral),
• NAACL 2022 A Study of Syntactic Multi-Modality in Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation, Kexun Zhang, Rui Wang, Xu Tan, Junliang Guo, Yi Ren, et al.
• ACL 2022 Revisiting Over-Smoothness in Text to Speech, Yi Ren, Xu Tan, Tao Qin, et al.
• ACL 2022 Learning the Beauty in Songs: Neural Singing Voice Beautifier, Jinglin Liu, Chengxi Li, Yi Ren, et al. |
• ICASSP 2022 ProsoSpeech: Enhancing Prosody With Quantized Vector Pre-training in Text-to-Speech, Yi Ren, et al.
• INTERSPEECH 2021 EMOVIE: A Mandarin Emotion Speech Dataset with a Simple Emotional Text-to-Speech Model, Chenye Cui, Yi Ren, et al.
• INTERSPEECH 2021 (best student paper award candidate) WSRGlow: A Glow-based Waveform Generative Model for Audio Super-Resolution, Kexun Zhang, Yi Ren, Changliang Xu and Zhou Zhao
• ICASSP 2021 Denoising Text to Speech with Frame-Level Noise Modeling, Chen Zhang, Yi Ren, Xu Tan, et al. | Project
• ACM-MM 2021 Multi-Singer: Fast Multi-Singer Singing Voice Vocoder With A Large-Scale Corpus, Rongjie Huang, Feiyang Chen, Yi Ren, et al. (Oral)
• IJCAI 2021 FedSpeech: Federated Text-to-Speech with Continual Learning, Ziyue Jiang, Yi Ren, et al.
• KDD 2020 DeepSinger: Singing Voice Synthesis with Data Mined From the Web, Yi Ren, Xu Tan, Tao Qin, et al. | Project
• KDD 2020 LRSpeech: Extremely Low-Resource Speech Synthesis and Recognition, Jin Xu, Xu Tan, Yi Ren, et al. | Project
• INTERSPEECH 2020 MultiSpeech: Multi-Speaker Text to Speech with Transformer, Mingjian Chen, Xu Tan, Yi Ren, et al. | Project
• ICML 2019 (Oral) Almost Unsupervised Text to Speech and Automatic Speech Recognition, Yi Ren, Xu Tan, Tao Qin, et al. | Project

👄 TalkingFace & Avatar

ICLR 2024

Real3D-Portrait: One-shot Realistic 3D Talking Portrait Synthesis, Zhenhui Ye, Tianyun Zhong, Yi Ren, et al. (Spotlight) Project | Code

• ICLR 2023 GeneFace: Generalized and High-Fidelity Audio-Driven 3D Talking Face Synthesis, Zhenhui Ye, Ziyue Jiang, Yi Ren, et al.
• AAAI 2024 AMD: Autoregressive Motion Diffusion, Bo Han, Hao Peng, Minjing Dong, Yi Ren, et al.
• AAAI 2022 Parallel and High-Fidelity Text-to-Lip Generation, Jinglin Liu, Zhiying Zhu, Yi Ren, et al. |
• AAAI 2022 Flow-based Unconstrained Lip to Speech Generation, Jinzheng He, Zhou Zhao, Yi Ren, et al.
• ACM-MM 2020 FastLR: Non-Autoregressive Lipreading Model with Integrate-and-Fire, Jinglin Liu, Yi Ren, et al.

📚 Machine Translation

• ACL 2023 AV-TranSpeech: Audio-Visual Robust Speech-to-Speech Translation, Rongjie Huang, Huadai Liu, Xize Cheng, Yi Ren, et al.
• ICLR 2023 TranSpeech: Speech-to-Speech Translation With Bilateral Perturbation, Rongjie Huang, Jinglin Liu, Huadai Liu, Yi Ren, Lichao Zhang, Jinzheng He, Zhou Zhao
• AAAI 2021 UWSpeech: Speech to Speech Translation for Unwritten Languages, Chen Zhang, Xu Tan, Yi Ren, et al. | Project
• IJCAI 2020 Task-Level Curriculum Learning for Non-Autoregressive Neural Machine Translation, Jinglin Liu, Yi Ren, Xu Tan, et al.
• ACL 2020 SimulSpeech: End-to-End Simultaneous Speech to Text Translation, Yi Ren, Jinglin Liu, Xu Tan, et al.
• ACL 2020 A Study of Non-autoregressive Model for Sequence Generation, Yi Ren, Jinglin Liu, Xu Tan, et al.
• ICLR 2019 Multilingual Neural Machine Translation with Knowledge Distillation, Xu Tan, Yi Ren, Di He, et al.

🎼 Music & Dance Generation

• IEEE TMM SDMuse: Stochastic Differential Music Editing and Generation via Hybrid Representation, Chen Zhang, Yi Ren, Kejun Zhang, Shuicheng Yan.
• AAAI 2021 SongMASS: Automatic Song Writing with Pre-training and Alignment Constraint, Zhonghao Sheng, Kaitao Song, Xu Tan, Yi Ren, et al.
• ACM-MM 2020 (Oral) PopMAG: Pop Music Accompaniment Generation, Yi Ren, Jinzheng He, Xu Tan, et al. | Project

🧑‍🎨 Generative Model

• ICLR 2022 Pseudo Numerical Methods for Diffusion Models on Manifolds, Luping Liu, Yi Ren, Zhijie Lin, Zhou Zhao | |

Others

• NeurIPS 2023 Unsupervised Video Domain Adaptation for Action Recognition: A Disentanglement Perspective, Pengfei Wei, Lingdong Kong, Xinghua Qu, Yi Ren, et al.
• ACM-MM 2022 Video-Guided Curriculum Learning for Spoken Video Grounding, Yan Xia, Zhou Zhao, Shangwei Ye, Yang Zhao, Haoyuan Li, Yi Ren

🎖 Honors and Awards

• 2021.10 Tencent Scholarship (Top 1%)
• 2021.10 National Scholarship (Top 1%)
• 2020.12 Baidu Scholarship (10 students in the world each year)
• 2020.12 AI Chinese new stars (100 worldwide each year)
• 2020.12 AI Chinese New Star Outstanding Scholar (10 candidates worldwide each year)
• 2020.12 ByteDance Scholars Program (10 students in China each year)
• 2020.10 Tianzhou Chen Scholarship (Top 1%)
• 2020.10 National Scholarship (Top 1%)
• 2015.10 National Scholarship (Undergraduate) (Top 1%)

📖 Educations

• *2024.06 - *, Phd, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney.
• 2022.06 - 2024.04, Master, University of Adelaide, Adelaide.
• 2015.09 - 2019.06, Undergraduate, Jiangsu Univeristy, Zhenjiang.

💻 Internships

• 2021.06 - 2021.09, Alibaba, Hangzhou.
• 2019.05 - 2020.02, EnjoyMusic, Hangzhou.
• 2019.02 - 2019.05, YiWise, Hangzhou.
• 2018.08 - 2019.02, MSRA, machine learning Group, Beijing.
• 2018.01 - 2018.06, NetEase, AI department, Hangzhou.
• 2017.08 - 2018.12, DashBase (acquired by Cisco), Hangzhou.