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  • Yilun Zhao

I am a CS PhD student at Yale working with Professor Arman Cohan on Natural Language Processing and Large Language Model. My current research focuses on (1) AI4Research, (2) Knowledge-Intensive Reasoning, and (3) (Multimodal) Foundation Models for Specialized Domains. If you are also passionate about these topics, feel free to connect!

Publications


MMVU: Measuring Expert-Level Multi-Discipline Video Understanding
Yilun Zhao, Lujing Xie, Haowei Zhang, Guo Gan, Yitao Long, Zhiyuan Hu, Tongyan Hu, Weiyuan Chen, Chuhan Li, Junyang Song, Zhijian Xu, Chengye Wang, Weifeng Pan, Ziyao Shangguan, Xiangru Tang, Zhenwen Liang, Yixin Liu, Chen Zhao, Arman Cohan
CVPR 2025 [code/data]
FinDVer: Explainable Claim Verification over Long and Hybrid-content Financial Documents
Yilun Zhao, Yitao Long, Tintin Jiang, Weiyuan Chen, Chengye Wang, Hongjun Liu, Xiangru Tang, Yiming Zhang, Chen Zhao, Arman Cohan
EMNLP 2024 [code/data]
FinanceMath: Knowledge-Intensive Math Word Problem Solving in Finance Domains
Yilun Zhao*, Hongjun Liu*, Yitao Long, Rui Zhang, Chen Zhao, Arman Cohan
ACL 2024 (Oral) [code/data]
DocMath-Eval: Evaluating Numerical Reasoning Capabilities of LLMs in Understanding Long and Specialized Documents
Yilun Zhao*, Yitao Long*, Hongjun Liu, Linyong Nan, Lyuhao Chen, Ryo Kamoi, Yixin Liu, Xiangru Tang, Rui Zhang, Arman Cohan
ACL 2024 (Oral) [code/data]
TaPERA: A Modular Framework for Long-form Table Question Answering
Yilun Zhao, Lyuhao Chen, Arman Cohan, Chen Zhao
ACL 2024
QTSumm: Query-Focused Summarization over Tabular Data
Yilun Zhao, Zhenting Qi, Linyong Nan, Boyu Mi, Yixin Liu, Weijin Zou, Simeng Han, Ruizhe Chen, Xiangru Tang, Yumo Xu, Dragomir Radev, Arman Cohan
EMNLP 2023 [code/data]
Investigating Table-to-Text Generation Capabilities of LLMs in Real-World Information Seeking Scenarios
Yilun Zhao*, Haowei Zhang*, Shengyun Si*, Linyong Nan, Xiangru Tang, Arman Cohan
EMNLP 2023 industry [code/data]
A Systematic Study of Table QA Robustness Against Human-Annotated Adversarial Perturbations
Yilun Zhao, Chen Zhao, Linyong Nan, Zhenting Qi, Wenlin Zhang, Xiangru Tang, Boyu Mi, Dragomir Radev
ACL 2023 [code/data]
LOFT: Enhancing Faithfulness and Diversity for Table-to-Text Generation via Logic Form Control
Yilun Zhao*, Zhenting Qi*, Linyong Nan, LJ Yu Flores, Dragomir Radev
EACL 2023 (Oral) [code/data]
ReasTAP: Injecting Table Reasoning Skills During Pre-training via Synthetic Reasoning Examples
Yilun Zhao, Linyong Nan, Zhenting Qi, Rui Zhang, Dragomir Radev
EMNLP 2022 [code/data]
MultiHiertt: Numerical Reasoning over Multi Hierarchical Tabular and Textual Data
Yilun Zhao, Yunxiang Li, Chenying Li, Rui Zhang
ACL 2022 [code/data]


Professional Leadership & Services

Workshop organization
  • ICLR 2025 Workshop on LLM Reasoning and Planning

  • Program Committee / Reviewer:
    ACL Rolling Review 2021-25, CVPR 2025, COLM 2024, ICLR 2024-25, NeurIPS 2023, EACL 2023, EMNLP 2022


    People Empowering Me

    During my graduate study, I really appreciate the support from:
    • Prof Arman Cohan
    • Prof Dragomir Radev
    • Prof Rui Zhang (PSU)
    • Prof Chen Zhao (NYU Shanghai)
    • My family



    Updated at August 2024

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