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Yanjun Gao

9 accepted papers

2026

Attributing Response to Context: A Jensen–Shannon Divergence Driven Mechanistic Study of Context Attribution in Retrieval-Augmented Generation

ICLR 2026poster

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) leverages large language models (LLMs) combined with external contexts to enhance the accuracy and reliability of generated responses. However, reliably attributing generated content to specific context segments, context attribution, remains challenging due to th…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Anchored Answers: Unravelling Positional Bias in GPT-2’s Multiple-Choice Questions

ACL 2025finding

Large Language Models (LLMs), such as the GPT-4 and LLaMA families, have demonstrated considerable success across diverse tasks, including multiple-choice questions (MCQs). However, these models exhibit a positional bias, particularly an even worse “anchored bias” in the GPT-2 family, where they con…

2025

Large Language Models with Temporal Reasoning for Longitudinal Clinical Summarization and Prediction

EMNLP 2025

Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have shown potential in clinical text summarization, but their ability to handle long patient trajectories with multi-modal data spread across time remains underexplored. This study systematically evaluates several state-of-the-art open-source LLMs, th

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Simple Yet Effective: An Information-Theoretic Approach to Multi-LLM Uncertainty Quantification

EMNLP 2025

Large language models (LLMs) often behave inconsistently across inputs, indicating uncertainty and motivating the need for its quantification in high-stakes settings. Prior work on calibration and uncertainty quantification often focuses on individual models, overlooking the potential of model diver

2024

Learning to Maximize Mutual Information for Chain-of-Thought Distillation

ACL 2024findings

Knowledge distillation, the technique of transferring knowledge from large, complex models to smaller ones, marks a pivotal step towards efficient AI deployment. Distilling Step-by-Step (DSS), a novel method utilizing chain-of-thought (CoT) distillation, has demonstrated promise by imbuing smaller m…

2024

Panoramic Image Inpainting with Gated Convolution and Contextual Reconstruction Loss

ICASSP 2024accepted

Deep learning-based methods have demonstrated encouraging results in tackling the task of panoramic image inpainting. However, it is challenging for existing methods to distinguish valid pixels from invalid pixels and find suitable references for corrupted areas, thus leading to artifacts in the inp…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2024

When Raw Data Prevails: Are Large Language Model Embeddings Effective in Numerical Data Representation for Medical Machine Learning Applications?

EMNLP 2024finding

The introduction of Large Language Models (LLMs) has advanced data representation and analysis, bringing significant progress in their use for medical questions and answering. Despite these advancements, integrating tabular data, especially numerical data pivotal in clinical contexts, into LLM parad…

Cited by 7SourcePDFScholar
2022

Summarizing Patients’ Problems from Hospital Progress Notes Using Pre-trained Sequence-to-Sequence Models

COLING 2022main

Automatically summarizing patients’ main problems from daily progress notes using natural language processing methods helps to battle against information and cognitive overload in hospital settings and potentially assists providers with computerized diagnostic decision support. Problem list summariz…

Cited by 45SourcePDFScholar
2021

ABCD: A Graph Framework to Convert Complex Sentences to a Covering Set of Simple Sentences

ACL 2021long

Atomic clauses are fundamental text units for understanding complex sentences. Identifying the atomic sentences within complex sentences is important for applications such as summarization, argument mining, discourse analysis, discourse parsing, and question answering. Previous work mainly relies on…