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Yilun Zhou

Yilun Zhou has 4 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on Language models & pretraining, Reasoning; often with Caiming Xiong, Austin Xu, Shafiq Joty.

4 papers in our library · 2024–2026

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 16 · 69 works · 1,144 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 4 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 123 times in our library · 2 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7765

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 Affiliations

🏢SalesforceSan Francisco · United States2024–2026 · 16 paperscurrent🎓Dartmouth CollegeHanover · United States2025–2026 · 3 paperscurrent🎓Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge · United States2017–2023 · 21 papersEducation 2017–2023 · Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceEmployment🔬MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence LaboratoryCambridge · United States2018–2023 · 8 papers🎓Duke UniversityDurham · United States2013–2016 · 2 papersEducation 2013–2016 · Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer EngineeringEducation 2013–2016 · Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

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

📚 Shelves 5The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 4 worksComputer Science · 4 worksArtificial Intelligence · 4 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 4 worksComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works

🧭 Topics 2Research subjects and languages the work is about.Language models & pretraining · 2 worksReasoning · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20261 paper20252 papers20241 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Direct Judgement Preference Optimization (2025 · 35 citations)
    LLM-as-judge models are usually trained with supervised finetuning on fairly small datasets and cover only narrow evaluation formats, often just pairwise comparison.
  2. Shared Imagination: LLMs Hallucinate Alike (2024 · 7 citations)
    Modern LLMs are trained with very similar recipes, so the authors ask whether the resulting models are also similar in what they invent.
  3. All for One: LLMs Solve Mental Math at the Last Token With Information Transferred From Other Tokens (2025 · 6 citations)
    The paper asks how much of a transformer's theoretical capacity for cross-token communication LLMs actually use when they do "mental math": one-token answers to two- or three-operand arithmetic, with no chain-of-thought.
  4. J4R: Learning to Judge with Equivalent Initial State Group Relative Policy Optimization (2026 · 3 citations)
    LLM-as-judge models handle simple tasks like chat quality well, but they struggle to evaluate reasoning-heavy outputs.

All works

6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. A Practical Review of Mechanistic Interpretability for Transformer-Based Language Models ↗arXiv:2407.02646 · no summary yetDaking Rai et al.2024 · 58 citations
  2. Direct Judgement Preference OptimizationConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)PeiFeng Wang, Austin Xu, Yilun Zhou, et al.2025 · 35 citations
  3. CHAMP: A Competition-level Dataset for Fine-Grained Analyses of LLMs' Mathematical Reasoning Capabilities ↗Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 · no summary yetYujun Mao, Yoon Kim, Yilun Zhou2024 · 34 citations
  4. Shared Imagination: LLMs Hallucinate AlikearXiv:2407.16604Yilun Zhou, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese, et al.2024 · 7 citations
  5. All for One: LLMs Solve Mental Math at the Last Token With Information Transferred From Other TokensConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Siddarth Mamidanna, Daking Rai, Ziyu Yao, et al.2025 · 6 citations
  6. J4R: Learning to Judge with Equivalent Initial State Group Relative Policy OptimizationAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Austin Xu, Yilun Zhou, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, et al.2026 · 3 citations

 Co-authors here

8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 123 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 35 citing papers with a page here →.

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