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 third-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 was a research scientist intern at IBM (2026) and Amazon (2025).
My research lies at the intersection of natural language processing and reinforcement learning, with a primary focus on the evaluation and optimization of generative models through the lens of RL methods and theory. To this end, I am currently working on research questions:
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Multi-Objective Optimization: How can we develop more robust algorithms for aligning generative models with stronger Pareto optimality? [1, 2]
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Theoretical RL: How can RL theory help explain and address the fundamental challenges that arise in the training and inference of generative models? [1]
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Explainable and Trustworthy QA: How to better evaluate and generate high-quality rationales for QA tasks? [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
If you are interested in collaborating on these or similar ideas, feel free to drop me an email: ylu33 [at] nd.edu.
news
| May 31, 2026 | CreativityPrism: A Holistic Benchmark for Large Language Model Creativity was accepted to TMLR 2026! |
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| May 25, 2026 | Joined IBM as a Research Scientist Intern for Summer 2026! |
| Feb 16, 2026 | Learning to Optimize Multi-Objective Alignment Through Dynamic Reward Weighting was accepted to TACL! |
| Feb 09, 2026 | Uncovering Cross-Objective Interference in Multi-Objective Alignment was released on arXiv! |
| Nov 11, 2025 | A Decentralized Retrieval Augmented Generation System with Source Reliabilities Secured on Blockchain was released on arXiv! |