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Yanchao Sun

Yanchao Sun has 2 papers in our library, in 2025, most of them on Language models & pretraining, Reasoning; often with Graham Neubig, Meng Cao, Rose Yu.

2 papers in our library · 2025

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 28 · 122 works · 2,359 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 62 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9324

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 Affiliations

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 7 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

 Works by year

2020s

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Checklists Are Better Than Reward Models For Aligning Language Models (2025 · 37 citations)
    Reinforcement learning works well for tasks with checkable answers. It is much harder to apply to open-ended instruction following, where reward models can be gamed and generic criteria such as "helpfulness" miss request-specific needs. The authors propose Reinforcement Learning from Checklist Feedback (RLCF), which…
  2. Hilbert: Recursively Building Formal Proofs with Informal Reasoning (2025 · 26 citations)
    Large language models handle informal mathematics well, but their arguments often contain errors that are hard to check.

 Co-authors here

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Venues

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 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 62 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 20 citing papers with a page here →.

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