Yifei Yuan
@yfyuan01.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Swiss Data Science Center, ETH & guest researcher @coastalcph | previous @CUHK Text Mining Group, working on NLP & IR
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Are you looking to gain experience in reviewing scientific papers? Do you know someone who can be an excellent reviewer? #ECIR26 invites you to nominate yourself or others to join the Program Committee (PC) for the short paper track.
Apply👉: forms.gle/LsvXHWEa859v...
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📢 The website for ECIR 2026 is live – and so is our first call for papers!

🔗 ecir2026.eu
📍 Delft, The Netherlands
🗓️ March 30 – April 1, 2026 (main conference)
🎓 Tutorials: March 29
🛠 Workshops: April 2
ECIR2026
The 48th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2026) is Europe's premier forum for cutting-edge research in
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We are also on LinkedIn 🎉https://www.linkedin.com/company/ecir-conf/
Join us next year in the beautiful city of Delft, the Netherlands 🇳🇱
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Please feel free to reach out and chat with Xinyi on 18 July, Vancouver at #ICML2025 👀
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Excited to present at the #ICML2025 World Models Workshop!
📅 July 18, 15:45–17:00
🧠 What if Othello-Playing Language Models Could See?
We show that visual grounding improves prediction & internal structure.♟️
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Thrilled to be presenting our tutorial with Zahra Abbasiantaeb, @aliannejadi.bsky.social, Yang Deng at #SIGIR2025!
🧠 Query Understanding in LLM-based Conversational Information Seeking
🗓️ 14:00-17:30, 13 July
📍 CARRARESI, Padova Congress Center
🔗 Learn more: sigirusertutorial.github.io
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🚀New Preprint🚀
Can Multimodal Retrieval Enhance Cultural Awareness in Vision-Language Models?

Excited to introduce RAVENEA, a new benchmark aimed at evaluating cultural understanding in VLMs through RAG.
arxiv.org/abs/2505.14462

More details:👇
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I won’t be attending #ICLR in person this year😢. But feel free to check our paper ‘Revisiting the Othello World Model Hypothesis’ with Anders Søgaard, accepted at ICLR world models workshop!
Paper link arxiv.org/abs/2503.04421
Revisiting the Othello World Model Hypothesis
Li et al. (2023) used the Othello board game as a test case for the ability of GPT-2 to induce world models, and were followed up by Nanda et al. (2023b). We briefly discuss the original experiments, ...
arxiv.org
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I've posted the practice run of my LSA keynote. My core claim is that LLMs can be useful tools for doing close linguistic analysis. I illustrate with a detailed case study, drawing on corpus evidence, targeted syntactic evaluations, and causal intervention-based analyses: youtu.be/DBorepHuKDM
Finding linguistic structure in large language models
YouTube video by Chris Potts
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I feel extremely upset and offended by this. How can we expect LLMs to generate unbiased, toxic-free content when AI professors make racist remarks during an AI Ethics talk? And some people think we’re overreacting and it’s no big deal? There’s so much more work to be done.
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"Large language models surpass human experts in predicting neuroscience results" w @ken-lxl.bsky.social
and braingpt.org. LLMs integrate a noisy yet interrelated scientific literature to forecast outcomes. nature.com/articles/s41... 1/8
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Can you also add me? Thanks a ton😊
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I’d also loved to be added to the space🙋
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Thank you very much!
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Can you please add me in?
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Can you please add me? Thanks!
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🤔Do Vision and Language Models Share Concepts? 🚀
We present an empirical evaluation and find that language models partially converge towards representations isomorphic to those of vision models. #EMNLP

📃 direct.mit.edu/tacl/article...