Zheng Wei Lim

I am a PhD student at the University of Melbourne, developing computational methods for difficult (i.e., cross-cultural or low-resource) translation. I have also worked on topics relating to multilinguality, psycholinguistics and interpretability.

My long-term research interests include:

• understanding how model architecture, training data and algorithms impose learning biases on language models, and their limitations in representing more complex language phenomena
• studying how large-scale models navigate varying (sometimes conflicting) goals, and developing controllable mechanisms that drive convergent or adaptable behaviour across time, domains, languages and modalities.

I am jointly advised by Ekaterina Vylomova, Charles Kemp and Trevor Cohn. In 2024, I was a student researcher at Google Research Australia.

Selected Publications