Yining Lu
Department of Computer Science and Engineering , University of Notre Dame
150K Fitzpatrick Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Hi There 👋! My name is Yining Lu, a first-year CS PhD student at the University of Notre Dame, where I am working with Prof. Meng Jiang in DM2: Data Mining towards Decision Making lab. Previously, I worked at Johns Hopkins University Center for Language and Speech Processing advised by Prof. Daniel Khashabi.
My research interests are in natural language processing and reinforcement learning, with primary focus on the evaluation of LLM on reasoning tasks and data-centric interpretability of RL. To this end, I am currently working on research questions:
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Explainable and Trustworthy QA: How to better evaluate and generate high-quality rationales for QA tasks? [1, 2, 3]
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Data Influence on RL: How do data influence the dual-task systems, and how can we develop data-centric approaches to optimize RL training? [1]
If you are interested in collaborating on these or similar ideas, feel free to drop me an email: ylu33 [at] nd.edu.
news
| May 15, 2025 | Two papers (Dynamic Decomposition and RATIONALYST) were accepted to ACL 2025 main! |
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| Mar 19, 2025 | Optimizing Decomposition for Optimal Claim Verification was released on arXiv! |
| Jan 22, 2025 | Benchmarking Language Model Creativity: A Case Study on Code Generation was accepted by NAACL 2025 main! |
| Oct 02, 2024 | RATIONALYST: Pre-training Process-Supervision for Improving Reasoning was released on arXiv! |
| Sep 29, 2024 | ANALOBENCH: Benchmarking the Identification of Abstract and Long-context Analogies was accepted by EMNLP 2024 main! |