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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!

SciArena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Foundation Models in Scientific Literature Tasks
Yilun Zhao, Kaiyan Zhang, Tiansheng Hu, Sihong Wu, Ronan Le Bras, Taira Anderson, Jonathan Bragg, Joseph Chee Chang, Jesse Dodge, Matt Latzke, Yixin Liu, Charles McGrady, Xiangru Tang, Zihang Wang, Chen Zhao, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Doug Downey, Arman Cohan
Preprint [code/data] [blog] [platform]
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]
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
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]


Workshop & Tutorial Organization
  • ICCV 2025 Workshop on Knowledge-Intensive Multimodal Reasoning
  • CVPR 2025 Tutorial on Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning
  • New England NLP (NENLP) Meeting Series 2025
  • 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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