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Yongjin Yang

9 accepted papers

2026

Entropy-Aware On-Policy Distillation of Language Models

ICML 2026poster

On-policy distillation is a promising approach for transferring knowledge between language models, where a student learns from dense token-level signals along its own trajectories. This framework typically uses reverse KL divergence, encouraging the student to match the teacher's high-confidence pre…

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2025

Agent-to-Agent Theory of Mind: Testing Interlocutor Awareness among Large Language Models

EMNLP 2025

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly integrated into multi-agent and human-AI systems, understanding their awareness of both self-context and conversational partners is essential for ensuring reliable performance and robust safety. While prior work has extensively studied situational awa

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2025

Automated Filtering of Human Feedback Data for Aligning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

ICLR 2025poster

Fine-tuning text-to-image diffusion models with human feedback is an effective method for aligning model behavior with human intentions. However, this alignment process often suffers from slow convergence due to the large size and noise present in human feedback datasets. In this work, we propose Fi…

2025

Code-Switching Red-Teaming: LLM Evaluation for Safety and Multilingual Understanding

ACL 2025long

As large language models (LLMs) have advanced rapidly, concerns regarding their safety have become prominent. In this paper, we discover that code-switching in red-teaming queries can effectively elicit undesirable behaviors of LLMs, which are common practices in natural language. We introduce a sim…

2025

MAQA: Evaluating Uncertainty Quantification in LLMs Regarding Data Uncertainty

NAACL 2025findings

Despite the massive advancements in large language models (LLMs), they still suffer from producing plausible but incorrect responses. To improve the reliability of LLMs, recent research has focused on uncertainty quantification to predict whether a response is correct or not. However, most uncertain…

2025

Self-Training Elicits Concise Reasoning in Large Language Models

ACL 2025finding

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has enabled large language models (LLMs) to utilize additional computation through intermediate tokens to solve complex tasks. However, we posit that typical reasoning traces contain many redundant tokens, incurring extraneous inference costs. Upon examination of the…

2024

Leveraging Normalization Layer in Adapters with Progressive Learning and Adaptive Distillation for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning

AAAI 2024technical

Cross-domain few-shot learning presents a formidable challenge, as models must be trained on base classes and then tested on novel classes from various domains with only a few samples at hand. While prior approaches have primarily focused on parameter-efficient methods of using adapters, they often…

2024

Towards Difficulty-Agnostic Efficient Transfer Learning for Vision-Language Models

EMNLP 2024main

Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have demonstrated remarkable applicability across a variety of downstream tasks, including zero-shot image classification. Recently, the use of prompts or adapters for efficient transfer learning (ETL) has gained significant attention for effectively adapting…

2023

HARE: Explainable Hate Speech Detection with Step-by-Step Reasoning

EMNLP 2023short findings

With the proliferation of social media, accurate detection of hate speech has become critical to ensure safety online. To combat nuanced forms of hate speech, it is important to identify and thoroughly explain hate speech to help users understand its harmful effects. Recent benchmarks have attempted…

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