Yao Lu
Lecturer in Natural Language Processing
Researches language model pretraining, interpretability and forecasting, building multilingual models for low-resource languages.
Yao Lu's lab at UCL works on large language models, multilingual, translation & linguistics and trustworthy & safe ML. 4 papers since 2023, 4 at top venues, mostly EMNLP and ACL.
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 1/ year
- at T1 venues
- 100%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 2 · collecting
- 1 papers2025 · T1 1
- 1 papers2024 · T1 1
- 0 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOtherVenues: EMNLP, ACL
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Large language models3 papers
- pretraining3 papers
- Multilingual, translation & linguistics2 papers
- Trustworthy & safe ML0 papers
- low-resource languages0 papers
Paper list
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20262 papers
- EMNLP (T1)A Language Model from 1913: Pretraining on Historical Text
- ACL (T1)The Role of Mixed-Language Documents for Multilingual Large Language Model Pretraining
20251 paper
- EMNLP (T1)Multilingual Language Model Pretraining using Machine-translated Data
20241 paper
- EMNLP (T1)Words Worth a Thousand Pictures: Measuring and Understanding Perceptual Variability in Text-to-Image Generation
Where alumni went
Alumni are not listed on the lab homepage.
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Computer Science MPhil/PhD
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