Yifei Yuan
@yfyuan01.bsky.social
Postdoc at Swiss Data Science Center, ETH & guest researcher @coastalcph | previous @CUHK Text Mining Group, working on NLP & IR
Are you looking to gain experience in reviewing scientific papers? Do you know someone who can be an excellent reviewer? #ECIR26 invites you to nominate yourself or others to join the Program Committee (PC) for the short paper track.
Apply👉: forms.gle/LsvXHWEa859v...
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September 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Are you looking to gain experience in reviewing scientific papers? Do you know someone who can be an excellent reviewer? #ECIR26 invites you to nominate yourself or others to join the Program Committee (PC) for the short paper track.
Apply👉: forms.gle/LsvXHWEa859v...
Apply👉: forms.gle/LsvXHWEa859v...
📢 The website for ECIR 2026 is live – and so is our first call for papers!
🔗 ecir2026.eu
📍 Delft, The Netherlands
🗓️ March 30 – April 1, 2026 (main conference)
🎓 Tutorials: March 29
🛠 Workshops: April 2
🔗 ecir2026.eu
📍 Delft, The Netherlands
🗓️ March 30 – April 1, 2026 (main conference)
🎓 Tutorials: March 29
🛠 Workshops: April 2
ECIR2026
The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026) is Europe's premier forum for cutting-edge research in
ecir2026.eu
August 2, 2025 at 9:35 AM
We are also on LinkedIn 🎉https://www.linkedin.com/company/ecir-conf/
Join us next year in the beautiful city of Delft, the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Join us next year in the beautiful city of Delft, the Netherlands 🇳🇱
August 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
We are also on LinkedIn 🎉https://www.linkedin.com/company/ecir-conf/
Join us next year in the beautiful city of Delft, the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Join us next year in the beautiful city of Delft, the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Please feel free to reach out and chat with Xinyi on 18 July, Vancouver at #ICML2025 👀
Excited to present at the #ICML2025 World Models Workshop!
📅 July 18, 15:45–17:00
🧠 What if Othello-Playing Language Models Could See?
We show that visual grounding improves prediction & internal structure.♟️
📅 July 18, 15:45–17:00
🧠 What if Othello-Playing Language Models Could See?
We show that visual grounding improves prediction & internal structure.♟️
July 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Please feel free to reach out and chat with Xinyi on 18 July, Vancouver at #ICML2025 👀
Thrilled to be presenting our tutorial with Zahra Abbasiantaeb, @aliannejadi.bsky.social, Yang Deng at #SIGIR2025!
🧠 Query Understanding in LLM-based Conversational Information Seeking
🗓️ 14:00-17:30, 13 July
📍 CARRARESI, Padova Congress Center
🔗 Learn more: sigirusertutorial.github.io
🧠 Query Understanding in LLM-based Conversational Information Seeking
🗓️ 14:00-17:30, 13 July
📍 CARRARESI, Padova Congress Center
🔗 Learn more: sigirusertutorial.github.io
July 13, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Thrilled to be presenting our tutorial with Zahra Abbasiantaeb, @aliannejadi.bsky.social, Yang Deng at #SIGIR2025!
🧠 Query Understanding in LLM-based Conversational Information Seeking
🗓️ 14:00-17:30, 13 July
📍 CARRARESI, Padova Congress Center
🔗 Learn more: sigirusertutorial.github.io
🧠 Query Understanding in LLM-based Conversational Information Seeking
🗓️ 14:00-17:30, 13 July
📍 CARRARESI, Padova Congress Center
🔗 Learn more: sigirusertutorial.github.io
Reposted by Yifei Yuan
🚀New Preprint🚀
Can Multimodal Retrieval Enhance Cultural Awareness in Vision-Language Models?
Excited to introduce RAVENEA, a new benchmark aimed at evaluating cultural understanding in VLMs through RAG.
arxiv.org/abs/2505.14462
More details:👇
Can Multimodal Retrieval Enhance Cultural Awareness in Vision-Language Models?
Excited to introduce RAVENEA, a new benchmark aimed at evaluating cultural understanding in VLMs through RAG.
arxiv.org/abs/2505.14462
More details:👇
May 23, 2025 at 5:04 PM
🚀New Preprint🚀
Can Multimodal Retrieval Enhance Cultural Awareness in Vision-Language Models?
Excited to introduce RAVENEA, a new benchmark aimed at evaluating cultural understanding in VLMs through RAG.
arxiv.org/abs/2505.14462
More details:👇
Can Multimodal Retrieval Enhance Cultural Awareness in Vision-Language Models?
Excited to introduce RAVENEA, a new benchmark aimed at evaluating cultural understanding in VLMs through RAG.
arxiv.org/abs/2505.14462
More details:👇
I won’t be attending #ICLR in person this year😢. But feel free to check our paper ‘Revisiting the Othello World Model Hypothesis’ with Anders Søgaard, accepted at ICLR world models workshop!
Paper link arxiv.org/abs/2503.04421
Paper link arxiv.org/abs/2503.04421
Revisiting the Othello World Model Hypothesis
Li et al. (2023) used the Othello board game as a test case for the ability of GPT-2 to induce world models, and were followed up by Nanda et al. (2023b). We briefly discuss the original experiments, ...
arxiv.org
April 21, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I won’t be attending #ICLR in person this year😢. But feel free to check our paper ‘Revisiting the Othello World Model Hypothesis’ with Anders Søgaard, accepted at ICLR world models workshop!
Paper link arxiv.org/abs/2503.04421
Paper link arxiv.org/abs/2503.04421
Reposted by Yifei Yuan
I've posted the practice run of my LSA keynote. My core claim is that LLMs can be useful tools for doing close linguistic analysis. I illustrate with a detailed case study, drawing on corpus evidence, targeted syntactic evaluations, and causal intervention-based analyses: youtu.be/DBorepHuKDM
Finding linguistic structure in large language models
YouTube video by Chris Potts
youtu.be
January 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I've posted the practice run of my LSA keynote. My core claim is that LLMs can be useful tools for doing close linguistic analysis. I illustrate with a detailed case study, drawing on corpus evidence, targeted syntactic evaluations, and causal intervention-based analyses: youtu.be/DBorepHuKDM
I feel extremely upset and offended by this. How can we expect LLMs to generate unbiased, toxic-free content when AI professors make racist remarks during an AI Ethics talk? And some people think we’re overreacting and it’s no big deal? There’s so much more work to be done.
December 14, 2024 at 3:40 PM
I feel extremely upset and offended by this. How can we expect LLMs to generate unbiased, toxic-free content when AI professors make racist remarks during an AI Ethics talk? And some people think we’re overreacting and it’s no big deal? There’s so much more work to be done.
Reposted by Yifei Yuan
"Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" w @ken-lxl.bsky.social
and braingpt.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. nature.com/articles/s41... 1/8
and braingpt.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. nature.com/articles/s41... 1/8
November 27, 2024 at 2:13 PM
"Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" w @ken-lxl.bsky.social
and braingpt.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. nature.com/articles/s41... 1/8
and braingpt.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. nature.com/articles/s41... 1/8
Reposted by Yifei Yuan
🤔Do Vision and Language Models Share Concepts? 🚀
We present an empirical evaluation and find that language models partially converge towards representations isomorphic to those of vision models. #EMNLP
📃 direct.mit.edu/tacl/article...
We present an empirical evaluation and find that language models partially converge towards representations isomorphic to those of vision models. #EMNLP
📃 direct.mit.edu/tacl/article...
November 19, 2024 at 12:48 PM
🤔Do Vision and Language Models Share Concepts? 🚀
We present an empirical evaluation and find that language models partially converge towards representations isomorphic to those of vision models. #EMNLP
📃 direct.mit.edu/tacl/article...
We present an empirical evaluation and find that language models partially converge towards representations isomorphic to those of vision models. #EMNLP
📃 direct.mit.edu/tacl/article...