Ben Yao — accepted AI-conference papers

2026

NurValues: Real-World Nursing Values Evaluation for Large Language Models in Clinical Context

Ben Yao, Qiuchi Li, Yazhou Zhang, Yang siyu, Bohan Zhang, Prayag Tiwari +1

ICLR 2026poster

While LLMs have demonstrated medical knowledge and conversational ability, their deployment in clinical practice raises new risks: patients may place greater trust in LLM-generated responses than in nurses' professional judgments, potentially intensifying nurse–patient conflicts. Such risks highligh…

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2025

Is Sarcasm Detection a Step-by-Step Reasoning Process in Large Language Models?

Ben Yao, Yazhou Zhang, Qiuchi Li, Jing Qin

AAAI 2025technical

Elaborating a series of intermediate reasoning steps significantly improves the ability of large language models (LLMs) to solve complex problems, as such steps would evoke LLMs to think sequentially. However, human sarcasm understanding is often considered an intuitive and holistic cognitive proces…

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