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William Yang Wang

University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

60 papers at tracked venues · 42 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×15EMNLP ×12ICLR ×9ICML ×6NAACL ×5NeurIPS ×5AAAI ×4CVPR ×1EACL ×1ICCV ×1SIGKDD ×1

Frequent coauthors

Liangming Pan
×18
Lei Li
×8
Xinyi Wang
×7
Xianjun Yang
×7
Jiachen Li
×7
Alfonso Amayuelas
×6
Michael Saxon
×6
Kexun Zhang
×6
Wenhu Chen
×6
Weixi Feng
×5
Wenyue Hua
×5
Antonis Antoniades
×5

Papers

  1. Can Editing LLMs Inject Harm?
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Canyu Chen
    ,
    Baixiang Huang
    ,
    Zekun Li
    ,
    Zhaorun Chen
    ,
    Shiyang Lai
    ,
    Xiongxiao Xu
    ,
    Jia-Chen Gu
    ,
    Jindong Gu
    ,
    Huaxiu Yao
    ,
    Chaowei Xiao
    ,
    Xifeng Yan
    , William Yang Wang,
    Philip Torr
    ,
    Dawn Song
    ,
    Kai Shu
  2. Detecting Training Data of Large Language Models via Expectation Maximization
    EACL 2026 ·
    Gyuwan Kim
    ,
    Yang Li
    ,
    Evangelia Spiliopoulou
    ,
    Jie Ma
    , William Yang Wang
  3. LEDOM: Reverse Language Model
    ACL 2026 ·
    Xunjian Yin
    ,
    Sitao Cheng
    ,
    Yuxi Xie
    ,
    Xinyu Hu
    ,
    Li Lin
    ,
    Xinyi Wang
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    , William Yang Wang,
    Xiaojun Wan
  4. WildSci: Advancing Scientific Reasoning from In-the-Wild Literature
    ACL 2026 ·
    Tengxiao Liu
    ,
    Deepak Nathani
    ,
    Zekun Li
    ,
    Kevin Yang
    , William Yang Wang
  5. AntiLeakBench: Preventing Data Contamination by Automatically Constructing Benchmarks with Updated Real-World Knowledge
    ACL 2025 ·
    Xiaobao Wu
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    ,
    Yuxi Xie
    ,
    Ruiwen Zhou
    ,
    Shuai Zhao
    ,
    Yubo Ma
    ,
    Mingzhe Du
    ,
    Rui Mao
    ,
    Anh Tuan Luu
    , William Yang Wang
  6. Aristotle: Mastering Logical Reasoning with A Logic-Complete Decompose-Search-Resolve Framework
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jundong Xu
    ,
    Hao Fei
    ,
    Meng Luo
    ,
    Qian Liu
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    , William Yang Wang,
    Preslav Nakov
    ,
    Mong-Li Lee
    ,
    Wynne Hsu
  7. BlobGEN-Vid: Compositional Text-to-Video Generation with Blob Video Representations
    CVPR 2025 ·
    Weixi Feng
    ,
    Chao Liu
    ,
    Sifei Liu
    , William Yang Wang,
    Arash Vahdat
    ,
    Weili Nie
  8. CBT-Bench: Evaluating Large Language Models on Assisting Cognitive Behavior Therapy
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Mian Zhang
    ,
    Xianjun Yang
    ,
    Xinlu Zhang
    ,
    Travis Labrum
    ,
    Jamie C. Chiu
    ,
    Shaun M. Eack
    ,
    Fei Fang
    , William Yang Wang,
    Zhiyu Chen
  9. Combating Multimodal LLM Hallucination via Bottom-Up Holistic Reasoning
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Shengqiong Wu
    ,
    Hao Fei
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    , William Yang Wang,
    Shuicheng Yan
    ,
    Tat-Seng Chua
  10. DebUnc: Improving Large Language Model Agent Communication With Uncertainty Metrics
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Luke Yoffe
    ,
    Alfonso Amayuelas
    , William Yang Wang
  11. Disentangling Memory and Reasoning Ability in Large Language Models
    ACL 2025 ·
    Mingyu Jin
    ,
    Weidi Luo
    ,
    Sitao Cheng
    ,
    Xinyi Wang
    ,
    Wenyue Hua
    ,
    Ruixiang Tang
    , William Yang Wang,
    Yongfeng Zhang
  12. Do You Know About My Nation? Investigating Multilingual Language Models' Cultural Literacy Through Factual Knowledge
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Eshaan Tanwar
    ,
    Anwoy Chatterjee
    ,
    Michael Saxon
    ,
    Alon Albalak
    , William Yang Wang,
    Tanmoy Chakraborty
  13. Dynamic Evaluation for Oversensitivity in LLMs
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Sophia Xiao Pu
    ,
    Sitao Cheng
    ,
    Xin Eric Wang
    , William Yang Wang
  14. Generalization v.s. Memorization: Tracing Language Models' Capabilities Back to Pretraining Data
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Xinyi Wang
    ,
    Antonis Antoniades
    ,
    Yanai Elazar
    ,
    Alfonso Amayuelas
    ,
    Alon Albalak
    ,
    Kexun Zhang
    , William Yang Wang
  15. Gödel Agent: A Self-Referential Agent Framework for Recursively Self-Improvement
    ACL 2025 ·
    Xunjian Yin
    ,
    Xinyi Wang
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    ,
    Li Lin
    ,
    Xiaojun Wan
    , William Yang Wang
  16. How Is LLM Reasoning Distracted by Irrelevant Context? An Analysis Using a Controlled Benchmark
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Minglai Yang
    ,
    Ethan Huang
    ,
    Liang Zhang
    ,
    Mihai Surdeanu
    , William Yang Wang,
    Liangming Pan
  17. Human Bias in the Face of AI: Examining Human Judgment Against Text Labeled as AI Generated
    ACL 2025 ·
    Tiffany Zhu
    ,
    Iain Weissburg
    ,
    Kexun Zhang
    , William Yang Wang
  18. InductionBench: LLMs Fail in the Simplest Complexity Class
    ACL 2025 ·
    Wenyue Hua
    ,
    Tyler Wong
    ,
    Fei Sun
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    ,
    Adam Jardine
    , William Yang Wang
  19. Investigating the Transferability of Code Repair for Low-Resource Programming Languages
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Kyle Wong
    ,
    Alfonso Amayuelas
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    , William Yang Wang
  20. MELON: Provable Defense Against Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks in AI Agents
    ICML 2025 ·
    Kaijie Zhu
    ,
    Xianjun Yang
    ,
    Jindong Wang
    ,
    Wenbo Guo
    , William Yang Wang
  21. MMWorld: Towards Multi-discipline Multi-faceted World Model Evaluation in Videos
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Xuehai He
    ,
    Weixi Feng
    ,
    Kaizhi Zheng
    ,
    Yujie Lu
    ,
    Wanrong Zhu
    ,
    Jiachen Li
    ,
    Yue Fan
    ,
    Jianfeng Wang
    ,
    Linjie Li
    ,
    Zhengyuan Yang
    ,
    Kevin Lin
    , William Yang Wang,
    Lijuan Wang
    ,
    Xin Eric Wang
  22. MuSLR: Multimodal Symbolic Logical Reasoning
    NeurIPS 2025 ·
    Jundong Xu
    ,
    Hao Fei
    ,
    Yuhui Zhang
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    ,
    Qijun Huang
    ,
    Qian Liu
    ,
    Preslav Nakov
    ,
    Min-Yen Kan
    , William Yang Wang,
    Mong-Li Lee
    ,
    Wynne Hsu
  23. REALM: A Dataset of Real-World LLM Use Cases
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jingwen Cheng
    ,
    Kshitish Ghate
    ,
    Wenyue Hua
    , William Yang Wang,
    Hong Shen
    ,
    Fei Fang
  24. RuleArena: A Benchmark for Rule-Guided Reasoning with LLMs in Real-World Scenarios
    ACL 2025 ·
    Ruiwen Zhou
    ,
    Wenyue Hua
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    ,
    Sitao Cheng
    ,
    Xiaobao Wu
    ,
    En Yu
    , William Yang Wang
  25. SWE-Search: Enhancing Software Agents with Monte Carlo Tree Search and Iterative Refinement
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Antonis Antoniades
    ,
    Albert Örwall
    ,
    Kexun Zhang
    ,
    Yuxi Xie
    ,
    Anirudh Goyal
    , William Yang Wang
  26. Scaling LLM Inference Efficiently with Optimized Sample Compute Allocation
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Kexun Zhang
    ,
    Shang Zhou
    ,
    Danqing Wang
    , William Yang Wang,
    Lei Li
  27. Speculative Knowledge Distillation: Bridging the Teacher-Student Gap Through Interleaved Sampling
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Wenda Xu
    ,
    Rujun Han
    ,
    Zifeng Wang
    ,
    Long T. Le
    ,
    Dhruv Madeka
    ,
    Lei Li
    , William Yang Wang,
    Rishabh Agarwal
    ,
    Chen-Yu Lee
    ,
    Tomas Pfister
  28. T2V-Turbo-v2: Enhancing Video Model Post-Training through Data, Reward, and Conditional Guidance Design
    ICLR 2025 ·
    Jiachen Li
    ,
    Qian Long
    ,
    Jian Zheng
    ,
    Xiaofeng Gao
    ,
    Robinson Piramuthu
    ,
    Wenhu Chen
    , William Yang Wang
  29. TC-Bench: Benchmarking Temporal Compositionality in Conditional Video Generation
    ACL 2025 ·
    Weixi Feng
    ,
    Jiachen Li
    ,
    Michael Saxon
    ,
    Tsu-Jui Fu
    ,
    Wenhu Chen
    , William Yang Wang
  30. Uncovering Factor-Level Preference to Improve Human-Model Alignment
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Juhyun Oh
    ,
    Eunsu Kim
    ,
    Jiseon Kim
    ,
    Wenda Xu
    ,
    Inha Cha
    , William Yang Wang,
    Alice Oh
  31. Unveiling the Impact of Coding Data Instruction Fine-Tuning on Large Language Models Reasoning
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Xinlu Zhang
    ,
    Zhiyu Zoey Chen
    ,
    Xi Ye
    ,
    Xianjun Yang
    ,
    Lichang Chen
    , William Yang Wang,
    Linda Ruth Petzold
  32. VSP: Diagnosing the Dual Challenges of Perception and Reasoning in Spatial Planning Tasks for MLLMS
    ICCV 2025 ·
    Qiucheng Wu
    ,
    Handong Zhao
    ,
    Michael Saxon
    ,
    Trung Bui
    , William Yang Wang,
    Yang Zhang
    ,
    Shiyu Chang
  33. Weak-to-Strong Jailbreaking on Large Language Models
    ICML 2025 ·
    Xuandong Zhao
    ,
    Xianjun Yang
    ,
    Tianyu Pang
    ,
    Chao Du
    ,
    Lei Li
    ,
    Yu-Xiang Wang
    , William Yang Wang
  34. A Survey on Detection of LLMs-Generated Content
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Xianjun Yang
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    ,
    Xuandong Zhao
    ,
    Haifeng Chen
    ,
    Linda R. Petzold
    , William Yang Wang,
    Wei Cheng
  35. AKEW: Assessing Knowledge Editing in the Wild
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Xiaobao Wu
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    , William Yang Wang,
    Anh Tuan Luu
  36. BPO: Staying Close to the Behavior LLM Creates Better Online LLM Alignment
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Wenda Xu
    ,
    Jiachen Li
    , William Yang Wang,
    Lei Li
  37. DNA-GPT: Divergent N-Gram Analysis for Training-Free Detection of GPT-Generated Text
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Xianjun Yang
    ,
    Wei Cheng
    ,
    Yue Wu
    ,
    Linda Ruth Petzold
    , William Yang Wang,
    Haifeng Chen
  38. FASTopic: Pretrained Transformer is a Fast, Adaptive, Stable, and Transferable Topic Model
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Xiaobao Wu
    ,
    Thong Nguyen
    ,
    Delvin Zhang
    , William Yang Wang,
    Anh Tuan Luu
  39. Global Human-guided Counterfactual Explanations for Molecular Properties via Reinforcement Learning
    SIGKDD 2024 ·
    Danqing Wang
    ,
    Antonis Antoniades
    ,
    Kha-Dinh Luong
    ,
    Edwin Zhang
    ,
    Mert Kosan
    ,
    Jiachen Li
    ,
    Ambuj K. Singh
    , William Yang Wang,
    Lei Li
  40. Guiding Instruction-based Image Editing via Multimodal Large Language Models
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Tsu-Jui Fu
    ,
    Wenze Hu
    ,
    Xianzhi Du
    , William Yang Wang,
    Yinfei Yang
    ,
    Zhe Gan
  41. Hire a Linguist!: Learning Endangered Languages in LLMs with In-Context Linguistic Descriptions
    ACL 2024 ·
    Kexun Zhang
    ,
    Yee Man Choi
    ,
    Zhenqiao Song
    ,
    Taiqi He
    , William Yang Wang,
    Lei Li
  42. Knowledge of Knowledge: Exploring Known-Unknowns Uncertainty with Large Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Alfonso Amayuelas
    ,
    Kyle Wong
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    ,
    Wenhu Chen
    , William Yang Wang
  43. LLMRefine: Pinpointing and Refining Large Language Models via Fine-Grained Actionable Feedback
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Wenda Xu
    ,
    Daniel Deutsch
    ,
    Mara Finkelstein
    ,
    Juraj Juraska
    ,
    Biao Zhang
    ,
    Zhongtao Liu
    , William Yang Wang,
    Lei Li
    ,
    Markus Freitag
  44. Language Control Diffusion: Efficiently Scaling through Space, Time, and Tasks
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Edwin Zhang
    ,
    Yujie Lu
    ,
    Shinda Huang
    , William Yang Wang,
    Amy Zhang
  45. Losing Visual Needles in Image Haystacks: Vision Language Models are Easily Distracted in Short and Long Contexts
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Aditya Sharma
    ,
    Michael Saxon
    , William Yang Wang
  46. Lost in Translation? Translation Errors and Challenges for Fair Assessment of Text-to-Image Models on Multilingual Concepts
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Michael Saxon
    ,
    Yiran Luo
    ,
    Sharon Levy
    ,
    Chitta Baral
    ,
    Yezhou Yang
    , William Yang Wang
  47. Mastering Robot Manipulation with Multimodal Prompts through Pretraining and Multi-task Fine-tuning
    ICML 2024 ·
    Jiachen Li
    ,
    Qiaozi Gao
    ,
    Michael Johnston
    ,
    Xiaofeng Gao
    ,
    Xuehai He
    ,
    Hangjie Shi
    ,
    Suhaila Shakiah
    ,
    Reza Ghanadan
    , William Yang Wang
  48. MultiAgent Collaboration Attack: Investigating Adversarial Attacks in Large Language Model Collaborations via Debate
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Alfonso Amayuelas
    ,
    Xianjun Yang
    ,
    Antonis Antoniades
    ,
    Wenyue Hua
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    , William Yang Wang
  49. Multimodal Procedural Planning via Dual Text-Image Prompting
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Yujie Lu
    ,
    Pan Lu
    ,
    Zhiyu Chen
    ,
    Wanrong Zhu
    ,
    Xin Wang
    , William Yang Wang
  50. Neuroformer: Multimodal and Multitask Generative Pretraining for Brain Data
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Antonis Antoniades
    ,
    Yiyi Yu
    ,
    Joseph Canzano
    , William Yang Wang,
    Spencer L. Smith
  51. Position: AI/ML Influencers Have a Place in the Academic Process
    ICML 2024 ·
    Iain Weissburg
    ,
    Mehir Arora
    ,
    Xinyi Wang
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    , William Yang Wang
  52. Position: TrustLLM: Trustworthiness in Large Language Models
    ICML 2024 ·
    Yue Huang
    ,
    Lichao Sun
    ,
    Haoran Wang
    ,
    Siyuan Wu
    ,
    Qihui Zhang
    ,
    Yuan Li
    ,
    Chujie Gao
    ,
    Yixin Huang
    ,
    Wenhan Lyu
    ,
    Yixuan Zhang
    ,
    Xiner Li
    ,
    Hanchi Sun
    ,
    Zhengliang Liu
    ,
    Yixin Liu
    ,
    Yijue Wang
    ,
    Zhikun Zhang
    ,
    Bertie Vidgen
    ,
    Bhavya Kailkhura
    ,
    Caiming Xiong
    ,
    Chaowei Xiao
    ,
    Chunyuan Li
    ,
    Eric P. Xing
    ,
    Furong Huang
    ,
    Hao Liu
    ,
    Heng Ji
    ,
    Hongyi Wang
    ,
    Huan Zhang
    ,
    Huaxiu Yao
    ,
    Manolis Kellis
    ,
    Marinka Zitnik
    ,
    Meng Jiang
    ,
    Mohit Bansal
    ,
    James Zou
    ,
    Jian Pei
    ,
    Jian Liu
    ,
    Jianfeng Gao
    ,
    Jiawei Han
    ,
    Jieyu Zhao
    ,
    Jiliang Tang
    ,
    Jindong Wang
    ,
    Joaquin Vanschoren
    ,
    John C. Mitchell
    ,
    Kai Shu
    ,
    Kaidi Xu
    ,
    Kai-Wei Chang
    ,
    Lifang He
    ,
    Lifu Huang
    ,
    Michael Backes
    ,
    Neil Zhenqiang Gong
    ,
    Philip S. Yu
    ,
    Pin-Yu Chen
    ,
    Quanquan Gu
    ,
    Ran Xu
    ,
    Rex Ying
    ,
    Shuiwang Ji
    ,
    Suman Jana
    ,
    Tianlong Chen
    ,
    Tianming Liu
    ,
    Tianyi Zhou
    , William Wang,
    Xiang Li
    ,
    Xiangliang Zhang
    ,
    Xiao Wang
    ,
    Xing Xie
    ,
    Xun Chen
    ,
    Xuyu Wang
    ,
    Yan Liu
    ,
    Yanfang Ye
    ,
    Yinzhi Cao
    ,
    Yong Chen
    ,
    Yue Zhao
  53. Pride and Prejudice: LLM Amplifies Self-Bias in Self-Refinement
    ACL 2024 ·
    Wenda Xu
    ,
    Guanglei Zhu
    ,
    Xuandong Zhao
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    ,
    Lei Li
    , William Wang
  54. RAG-QA Arena: Evaluating Domain Robustness for Long-form Retrieval Augmented Question Answering
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Rujun Han
    ,
    Yuhao Zhang
    ,
    Peng Qi
    ,
    Yumo Xu
    ,
    Jenyuan Wang
    ,
    Lan Liu
    , William Yang Wang,
    Bonan Min
    ,
    Vittorio Castelli
  55. T2V-Turbo: Breaking the Quality Bottleneck of Video Consistency Model with Mixed Reward Feedback
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Jiachen Li
    ,
    Weixi Feng
    ,
    Tsu-Jui Fu
    ,
    Xinyi Wang
    ,
    Sugato Basu
    ,
    Wenhu Chen
    , William Yang Wang
  56. The Knowledge Alignment Problem: Bridging Human and External Knowledge for Large Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Shuo Zhang
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    ,
    Junzhou Zhao
    , William Yang Wang
  57. Understanding Reasoning Ability of Language Models From the Perspective of Reasoning Paths Aggregation
    ICML 2024 ·
    Xinyi Wang
    ,
    Alfonso Amayuelas
    ,
    Kexun Zhang
    ,
    Liangming Pan
    ,
    Wenhu Chen
    , William Yang Wang
  58. VELMA: Verbalization Embodiment of LLM Agents for Vision and Language Navigation in Street View
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Raphael Schumann
    ,
    Wanrong Zhu
    ,
    Weixi Feng
    ,
    Tsu-Jui Fu
    ,
    Stefan Riezler
    , William Yang Wang
  59. Who Evaluates the Evaluations? Objectively Scoring Text-to-Image Prompt Coherence Metrics with T2IScoreScore (TS2)
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Michael Saxon
    ,
    Fatima Jahara
    ,
    Mahsa Khoshnoodi
    ,
    Yujie Lu
    ,
    Aditya Sharma
    , William Yang Wang
  60. WildVision: Evaluating Vision-Language Models in the Wild with Human Preferences
    NeurIPS 2024 ·
    Yujie Lu
    ,
    Dongfu Jiang
    ,
    Wenhu Chen
    , William Yang Wang,
    Yejin Choi
    ,
    Bill Yuchen Lin