Yafeng Yin
Yafeng Yin has 2 papers in our library, in 2025, most of them on Language models & pretraining; often with Qing Gu, Yuchen Fu, Zhiwei Jiang.
OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 61 · 280 works · 11,817 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14
📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 17 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9240
Affiliations
🎓University of MichiganAnn Arbor ·
United States2017–2026 · 101 papers🎓University of FloridaGainesville ·
United States2006–2017 · 87 papers🎓Nanjing UniversityNanjing ·
China2023–2025 · 6 papers🎓University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley ·
United States2004–2007 · 6 papers🎓The University of TokyoTokyo ·
Japan2000–2002 · 5 papers🎓Tsinghua UniversityBeijing ·
China1996–1999 · 2 papers
Fields, topics and concepts
📚 Shelves 5The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 works
🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.Language models & pretraining · 2 works
Works by year
2020s
Papers
- Token Prepending: A Training-Free Approach for Eliciting Better Sentence Embeddings from LLMs (2025 · 10 citations)
Decoder-only LLMs rely on causal attention. When sentence embeddings are extracted from them without fine-tuning, tokens near the start of the input cannot see later tokens. Prompt-based methods such as PromptEOL read the embedding from the final prompt token, but that token still inherits the skewed representations… - Contrastive Prompting Enhances Sentence Embeddings in LLMs through Inference-Time Steering (2025 · 8 citations)
Large language models can produce sentence embeddings without any training data or fine-tuning: a prompt wraps the sentence, and the hidden state of the final token serves as the vector.
Co-authors here
- Qing Gu ×2
- Yuchen Fu ×2
- Zhiwei Jiang ×2
- Zhonghui Wang ×2
- Zifeng Cheng ×2
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