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Yulan He

King's College London, UK

50 papers at tracked venues · 33 at CORE A* · active 2024–2026

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Venues

ACL ×23EMNLP ×14AAAI ×5ICML ×3NAACL ×2EACL ×1ICLR ×1SIGIR ×1

Frequent coauthors

Lin Gui
×20
Hanqi Yan
×14
Jiazheng Li
×14
Linhai Zhang
×9
Deyu Zhou
×8
Runcong Zhao
×8
Yuxiang Zhou
×8
Qinglin Zhu
×7
Hainiu Xu
×7
Gabriele Pergola
×5
Cesare Aloisi
×5
Siya Qi
×4

Papers

  1. Beyond Cross-Modal Alignment: Measuring and Leveraging Modality Gap in Vision-Language Models
    ACL 2026 ·
    Hanqi Yan
    ,
    Xiangxiang Cui
    ,
    Lu Yin
    ,
    Jindong Gu
    ,
    Paul Pu Liang
    , Yulan He,
    Yifei Wang
  2. Beyond Meta-Reasoning: Metacognitive Consolidation for Self-Improving LLM Reasoning
    ACL 2026 ·
    Ziqing Zhuang
    ,
    Linhai Zhang
    ,
    Jiasheng Si
    ,
    Deyu Zhou
    , Yulan He
  3. Beyond Perplexity: Let the Reader Select Retrieval Summaries via Spectrum Projection Score
    AAAI 2026 ·
    Zhanghao Hu
    ,
    Qinglin Zhu
    ,
    Siya Qi
    , Yulan He,
    Hanqi Yan
    ,
    Lin Gui
  4. Boundary-Aware LLM Augmentation for Low-Resource Event Argument Extraction
    EACL 2026 ·
    Zhaoyue Sun
    ,
    Gabriele Pergola
    , Yulan He
  5. SymbolicThought: Integrating Language Models and Symbolic Reasoning for Consistent and Interpretable Human Relationship Understanding
    ACL 2026 ·
    Runcong Zhao
    ,
    Qinglin Zhu
    ,
    Hainiu Xu
    ,
    Bin Liang
    ,
    Lin Gui
    , Yulan He
  6. AERA Chat: An Interactive Platform for Automated Explainable Student Answer Assessment
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Jiazheng Li
    ,
    Artem Bobrov
    ,
    Runcong Zhao
    ,
    Cesare Aloisi
    , Yulan He
  7. An Automated Explainable Educational Assessment System Built on LLMs
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Jiazheng Li
    ,
    Artem Bobrov
    ,
    David West
    ,
    Cesare Aloisi
    , Yulan He
  8. Assessing the Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs in the context of Evidence-based Claim Verification
    ACL 2025 ·
    John Dougrez-Lewis
    ,
    Mahmud Elahi Akhter
    ,
    Federico Ruggeri
    ,
    Sebastian Löbbers
    , Yulan He,
    Maria Liakata
  9. Beyond Prompting: An Efficient Embedding Framework for Open-Domain Question Answering
    ACL 2025 ·
    Zhanghao Hu
    ,
    Hanqi Yan
    ,
    Qinglin Zhu
    ,
    Zhenyi Shen
    , Yulan He,
    Lin Gui
  10. CODI: Compressing Chain-of-Thought into Continuous Space via Self-Distillation
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Zhenyi Shen
    ,
    Hanqi Yan
    ,
    Linhai Zhang
    ,
    Zhanghao Hu
    ,
    Yali Du
    , Yulan He
  11. COPR: Continual Human Preference Learning via Optimal Policy Regularization
    ACL 2025 ·
    Han Zhang
    ,
    Lin Gui
    ,
    Yu Lei
    ,
    Yuanzhao Zhai
    ,
    Yehong Zhang
    ,
    Zhuo Zhang
    , Yulan He,
    Hui Wang
    ,
    Yue Yu
    ,
    Kam-Fai Wong
    ,
    Bin Liang
    ,
    Ruifeng Xu
  12. Cascading Large Language Models for Salient Event Graph Generation
    NAACL 2025 ·
    Xingwei Tan
    ,
    Yuxiang Zhou
    ,
    Gabriele Pergola
    , Yulan He
  13. Causal Prompting: Debiasing Large Language Model Prompting Based on Front-Door Adjustment
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Congzhi Zhang
    ,
    Linhai Zhang
    ,
    Jialong Wu
    , Yulan He,
    Deyu Zhou
  14. Constrain Alignment with Sparse Autoencoders
    ICML 2025 ·
    Qingyu Yin
    ,
    Chak Tou Leong
    ,
    Hongbo Zhang
    ,
    Minjun Zhu
    ,
    Hanqi Yan
    ,
    Qiang Zhang
    , Yulan He,
    Wenjie Li
    ,
    Jun Wang
    ,
    Yue Zhang
    ,
    Linyi Yang
  15. Drift: Enhancing LLM Faithfulness in Rationale Generation via Dual-Reward Probabilistic Inference
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jiazheng Li
    ,
    Hanqi Yan
    , Yulan He
  16. EnigmaToM: Improve LLMs' Theory-of-Mind Reasoning Capabilities with Neural Knowledge Base of Entity States
    ACL 2025 ·
    Hainiu Xu
    ,
    Siya Qi
    ,
    Jiazheng Li
    ,
    Yuxiang Zhou
    ,
    Jinhua Du
    ,
    Caroline Catmur
    , Yulan He
  17. Evaluating LLMs' Assessment of Mixed-Context Hallucination Through the Lens of Summarization
    ACL 2025 ·
    Siya Qi
    ,
    Rui Cao
    , Yulan He,
    Zheng Yuan
  18. ExDDI: Explaining Drug-Drug Interaction Predictions with Natural Language
    AAAI 2025 ·
    Zhaoyue Sun
    ,
    Jiazheng Li
    ,
    Gabriele Pergola
    , Yulan He
  19. Explainable Depression Detection in Clinical Interviews with Personalized Retrieval-Augmented Generation
    ACL 2025 ·
    Linhai Zhang
    ,
    Ziyang Gao
    ,
    Deyu Zhou
    , Yulan He
  20. GraphMind: Interactive Novelty Assessment System for Accelerating Scientific Discovery
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Italo Luis da Silva
    ,
    Hanqi Yan
    ,
    Lin Gui
    , Yulan He
  21. Hatevolution: What Static Benchmarks Don't Tell Us
    ACL 2025 ·
    Chiara Di Bonaventura
    ,
    Barbara McGillivray
    , Yulan He,
    Albert Meroño-Peñuela
  22. LearnLens: LLM-Enabled Personalised, Curriculum-Grounded Feedback with Educators in the Loop
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Runcong Zhao
    ,
    Artem Bobrov
    ,
    Jiazheng Li
    ,
    Cesare Aloisi
    , Yulan He
  23. Modeling Subjectivity in Cognitive Appraisal with Language Models
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Yuxiang Zhou
    ,
    Hainiu Xu
    ,
    Desmond C. Ong
    ,
    Maria Liakata
    ,
    Petr Slovák
    , Yulan He
  24. NOVER: Incentive Training for Language Models via Verifier-Free Reinforcement Learning
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Wei Liu
    ,
    Siya Qi
    ,
    Xinyu Wang
    ,
    Chen Qian
    ,
    Yali Du
    , Yulan He
  25. PECAN: LLM-Guided Dynamic Progress Control with Attention-Guided Hierarchical Weighted Graph for Long-Document QA
    ACL 2025 ·
    Xinyu Wang
    ,
    Yanzheng Xiang
    ,
    Lin Gui
    , Yulan He
  26. PROPER: A Progressive Learning Framework for Personalized Large Language Models with Group-Level Adaptation
    ACL 2025 ·
    Linhai Zhang
    ,
    Jialong Wu
    ,
    Deyu Zhou
    , Yulan He
  27. Position: LLMs Need a Bayesian Meta-Reasoning Framework for More Robust and Generalizable Reasoning
    ICML 2025 ·
    Hanqi Yan
    ,
    Linhai Zhang
    ,
    Jiazheng Li
    ,
    Zhenyi Shen
    , Yulan He
  28. RGAR: Recurrence Generation-augmented Retrieval for Factual-aware Medical Question Answering
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Sichu Liang
    ,
    Linhai Zhang
    ,
    Hongyu Zhu
    ,
    Wenwen Wang
    , Yulan He,
    Deyu Zhou
  29. Rehearse With User: Personalized Opinion Summarization via Role-Playing based on Large Language Models
    ACL 2025 ·
    Yanyue Zhang
    , Yulan He,
    Deyu Zhou
  30. RoleMRC: A Fine-Grained Composite Benchmark for Role-Playing and Instruction-Following
    ACL 2025 ·
    Junru Lu
    ,
    Jiazheng Li
    ,
    Guodong Shen
    ,
    Lin Gui
    ,
    Siyu An
    , Yulan He,
    Di Yin
    ,
    Xing Sun
  31. SCOPE: Optimizing Key-Value Cache Compression in Long-context Generation
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jialong Wu
    ,
    Zhenglin Wang
    ,
    Linhai Zhang
    ,
    Yilong Lai
    , Yulan He,
    Deyu Zhou
  32. Soft Reasoning: Navigating Solution Spaces in Large Language Models through Controlled Embedding Exploration
    ICML 2025 ·
    Qinglin Zhu
    ,
    Runcong Zhao
    ,
    Hanqi Yan
    , Yulan He,
    Yudong Chen
    ,
    Lin Gui
  33. Sparse Activation Editing for Reliable Instruction Following in Narratives
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Runcong Zhao
    ,
    Chengyu Cao
    ,
    Qinglin Zhu
    ,
    Xiucheng Lyu
    ,
    Shun Shao
    ,
    Lin Gui
    ,
    Ruifeng Xu
    , Yulan He
  34. Two Heads Are Better Than One: Dual-Model Verbal Reflection at Inference-Time
    EMNLP 2025 ·
    Jiazheng Li
    ,
    Yuxiang Zhou
    ,
    Junru Lu
    ,
    Gladys Tyen
    ,
    Lin Gui
    ,
    Cesare Aloisi
    , Yulan He
  35. WebWalker: Benchmarking LLMs in Web Traversal
    ACL 2025 ·
    Jialong Wu
    ,
    Wenbiao Yin
    ,
    Yong Jiang
    ,
    Zhenglin Wang
    ,
    Zekun Xi
    ,
    Runnan Fang
    ,
    Linhai Zhang
    , Yulan He,
    Deyu Zhou
    ,
    Pengjun Xie
    ,
    Fei Huang
  36. Addressing Order Sensitivity of In-Context Demonstration Examples in Causal Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Yanzheng Xiang
    ,
    Hanqi Yan
    ,
    Lin Gui
    , Yulan He
  37. CPPO: Continual Learning for Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback
    ICLR 2024 ·
    Han Zhang
    ,
    Yu Lei
    ,
    Lin Gui
    ,
    Min Yang
    , Yulan He,
    Hui Wang
    ,
    Ruifeng Xu
  38. Calibrating LLMs with Preference Optimization on Thought Trees for Generating Rationale in Science Question Scoring
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Jiazheng Li
    ,
    Hainiu Xu
    ,
    Zhaoyue Sun
    ,
    Yuxiang Zhou
    ,
    David West
    ,
    Cesare Aloisi
    , Yulan He
  39. DrugWatch: A Comprehensive Multi-Source Data Visualisation Platform for Drug Safety Information
    ACL 2024 ·
    Artem Bobrov
    ,
    Domantas Saltenis
    ,
    Zhaoyue Sun
    ,
    Gabriele Pergola
    , Yulan He
  40. Eliminating Biased Length Reliance of Direct Preference Optimization via Down-Sampled KL Divergence
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Junru Lu
    ,
    Jiazheng Li
    ,
    Siyu An
    ,
    Meng Zhao
    , Yulan He,
    Di Yin
    ,
    Xing Sun
  41. Encourage or Inhibit Monosemanticity? Revisit Monosemanticity from a Feature Decorrelation Perspective
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Hanqi Yan
    ,
    Yanzheng Xiang
    ,
    Guangyi Chen
    ,
    Yifei Wang
    ,
    Lin Gui
    , Yulan He
  42. Large Language Models Fall Short: Understanding Complex Relationships in Detective Narratives
    ACL 2024 ·
    Runcong Zhao
    ,
    Qinglin Zhu
    ,
    Hainiu Xu
    ,
    Jiazheng Li
    ,
    Yuxiang Zhou
    , Yulan He,
    Lin Gui
  43. Mirror: Multiple-perspective Self-Reflection Method for Knowledge-rich Reasoning
    ACL 2024 ·
    Hanqi Yan
    ,
    Qinglin Zhu
    ,
    Xinyu Wang
    ,
    Lin Gui
    , Yulan He
  44. Multi-Layer Ranking with Large Language Models for News Source Recommendation
    SIGIR 2024 ·
    Wenjia Zhang
    ,
    Lin Gui
    ,
    Rob Procter
    , Yulan He
  45. NarrativePlay: An Automated System for Crafting Visual Worlds in Novels for Role-Playing
    AAAI 2024 ·
    Runcong Zhao
    ,
    Wenjia Zhang
    ,
    Jiazheng Li
    ,
    Lixing Zhu
    ,
    Yanran Li
    , Yulan He,
    Lin Gui
  46. OpenToM: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Evaluating Theory-of-Mind Reasoning Capabilities of Large Language Models
    ACL 2024 ·
    Hainiu Xu
    ,
    Runcong Zhao
    ,
    Lixing Zhu
    ,
    Jinhua Du
    , Yulan He
  47. Set-Aligning Framework for Auto-Regressive Event Temporal Graph Generation
    NAACL 2024 ·
    Xingwei Tan
    ,
    Yuxiang Zhou
    ,
    Gabriele Pergola
    , Yulan He
  48. The Mystery of In-Context Learning: A Comprehensive Survey on Interpretation and Analysis
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Yuxiang Zhou
    ,
    Jiazheng Li
    ,
    Yanzheng Xiang
    ,
    Hanqi Yan
    ,
    Lin Gui
    , Yulan He
  49. Towards Unified Task Embeddings Across Multiple Models: Bridging the Gap for Prompt-Based Large Language Models and Beyond
    ACL 2024 ·
    Xinyu Wang
    ,
    Hainiu Xu
    ,
    Lin Gui
    , Yulan He
  50. Weak Reward Model Transforms Generative Models into Robust Causal Event Extraction Systems
    EMNLP 2024 ·
    Italo Luis da Silva
    ,
    Hanqi Yan
    ,
    Lin Gui
    , Yulan He