Zihao Li

I am currently Doctoral Researcher in the Language Technology Group at University of Helsinki, supervised by Prof. Jörg Tiedemann, and co-advised by Dr. Shaoxiong Ji from Technical University of Darmstadt.

I received my Master’s degree in Data Science from the University of Helsinki and my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University, China.

I am interested in Multilingual NLP, Large Language Model, and Machine Translation. My current research focuses on expanding the multilingual capabilities of LLM, especially in low-resource languages.

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📄Publications

Rethinking Multilingual Continual Pretraining: Data Mixing for Adapting LLMs Across Languages and Resources
Zihao Li, Shaoxiong Ji, Hengyu Luo, Jörg Tiedemann
Arxiv
[Paper] / [Github] / [Models & Datasets]
GlotEval: A Test Suite for Massively Multilingual Evaluation of Large Language Models
Hengyu Luo, Zihao Li, Joseph Attieh*, Sawal Devkota*, Ona de Gibert*, Shaoxiong Ji*, Peiqin Lin*, Bhavani Sai Praneeth Varma Mantina*, Ananda Sreenidhi*, Raúl Vázquez*, Mengjie Wang*, Samea Yusofi*, Jörg Tiedemann
Arxiv
[Paper] / [Github]
EMMA-500: Enhancing Massively Multilingual Adaptation of Large Language Models
Shaoxiong Ji, Zihao Li, Indraneil Paul, Jaakko Paavola, Peiqin Lin, Pinzhen Chen, Dayyán O'Brien, Hengyu Luo, Hinrich Schütze, Jörg Tiedemann, Barry Haddow
Arxiv
[Paper] / [Github] / [Model] / [Datasets]
A Comparison of Language Modeling and Translation as Multilingual Pretraining Objectives
Zihao Li, Shaoxiong Ji*, Timothee Mickus*, Vincent Segonne, Jörg Tiedemann
EMNLP 2024
[Paper] / [Github]

🎓Education

UH

University of Helsinki

M.Sc. Data Science 2023.8 – 2025.4
NEU

Northeastern University (CN)

B.Eng. Computer Science and Technology 2019.9 – 2023.6

🛠️Experience

UH

Helsinki-NLP

Doctoral Researcher 2025.3 –
Research Assistant 2024.7 – 2024.9
EDF

Électricité de France

NLP Engineer Intern 2024.4 – 2024.6
BMW

BMW Brilliance Automotive

Product Intern 2023.3 – 2023.6
Maxnet

Maxnet Inc.

Software Engineer Intern 2022.7 – 2022.8