Yifei Yuan

ECIR 2026 Student Travel Grant Application Form

ECIR is pleased to offer Student Support Grants . Applicants must be full-time students. Priority consideration will be given to students with accepted papers and demonstrated financial need.

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🎖️ Call for Nominations – The Keith van Rijsbergen (KvR) Award 2026

Read more about the award, nomination process, and find the form to submit your nominations here: lnkd.in/emecdsXm

#ECIR2026 #InformationRetrieval #Awards #ResearchExcellence

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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.
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Join us next year in the beautiful city of Delft, the Netherlands 🇳🇱

Please feel free to reach out and chat with Xinyi on 18 July, Vancouver at #ICML2025 👀

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

🚀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

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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, ...

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

Finding linguistic structure in large language models YouTube video by Chris Potts

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

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.

"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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🤔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

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