Yong Cao
yongcao.bsky.social
Yong Cao
@yongcao.bsky.social
Postdoc at the University of Tübingen, supervised by @andreasgeiger.bsky.social | Research: Scientific Document Analysis, Cultural AI, & LLM Agents.
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🚀 Introducing our new paper, MDPO: Overcoming the Training-Inference Divide of Masked Diffusion Language Models.

📄 Paper: www.scholar-inbox.com/papers/He202...
arxiv.org/pdf/2508.13148
💻 Code: github.com/autonomousvi...
🌐 Project Page: cli212.github.io/MDPO/
August 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
So excited that our Scholar Inbox is serving ACL 2025. Looking forward to meeting all of you in Vienna, along with my great team @andreasgeiger.bsky.social @haoyuhe.bsky.social @markusflicke.bsky.social! We also present our ACL Demo paper poster at (Hall X4 X5) 28th 11:00-12:30. Welcome for chat!
We are excited that Scholar Inbox is supporting ACL 2025
@aclmeeting.bsky.social with personalized conference programs this year for the first time!
www.scholar-inbox.com/conference/a...
It would be great if you could widely share this news within the NLP community. See you next week in Vienna!
July 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Last day of our AVG Summer retreat 2025 in Balderschwang! Many talks and for the first time 2 panel discussions and a PhD life hack session. And of course some sports,games,swimming and lots of fun..
July 2, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Excited to join the IT:U summer school this year. Looking forward to learning, sharing, and connecting with amazing researchers! 😀
‼️Call for Participation: IT:U Summer School 2025 on Natural Language Processing‼️

We are excited to announce that the IT:U Summer School 2025, focused on NLP, will take place on July 25–26 in Linz, Austria, just ahead of #ACL2025.

🔗 Register here: it-u.at/en/itu-summe...
May 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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📢 New paper CVPR 25!
Can meshes capture fuzzy geometry? Volumetric Surfaces uses adaptive textured shells to model hair, fur without the splatting / volume overhead. It’s fast, looks great, and runs in real time even on budget phones.
🔗 autonomousvision.github.io/volsurfs/
📄 arxiv.org/pdf/2409.02482
May 5, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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📣 Excited to share our #CVPR2025 Spotlight paper and my internship project @wayve: SimLingo.
A Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that achieves state-of-the-art driving performance with language capabilities.

Code: github.com/RenzKa/simli...
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.09594
May 8, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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📣 Excited that our C3NLP 2025 Workshop program is finalized — just one week to go! 🎉

Full program: c3nlp.github.io

Co-organized with @vinodkpg.bsky.social @sunipadev.bsky.social @lucianabenotti.bsky.social @yongcao.bsky.social @danielhers.bsky.social Laura Cabello, Ife Adebara, and Li Zhou. ❤️
April 28, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Excited to be part of this comprehensive survey, exploring how AI can accelerate scientific discovery and enhance research efficiency! 🚀
As many areas, science itself will be transformed by AI. We have now released a state-of-the-art survey on this emerging field. We discuss methods and tools for AI-enhanced search, ideation, experimentation, content generation and peer review.
arxiv.org/pdf/2502.05151
February 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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📣 Second Call for Papers! 🎉

We’re extending our CFP to February 6, 2025 ⏳—more time to submit your work on culture, society & NLP!

📍 C3NLP 2025 @ NAACL | Albuquerque, NM 🌎
📅 New Deadline: Feb 6, 2025
🔗 Workshop details: c3nlp.github.io

Submit now & join us! 📝✨
#NLP #C3NLP #CulturalNLP #NAACL2025
C3NLP @ NAACL 2025
c3nlp.github.io
January 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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📣 C3NLP 2025 CFP now out 🎉

We’re thrilled to announce C3NLP will be at NAACL 2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico! 🌎

📅 Workshop Details: c3nlp.github.io
C3NLP @ NAACL 2025
c3nlp.github.io
December 13, 2024 at 6:17 PM