Yizhong Wang
Assistant Professor
Works on training methods for large language models, such as instruction tuning and synthetic data, and their applications to scientific discovery.
Yizhong Wang's lab at UT Austin works on large language models. 26 papers since 2023, 14 at top venues, mostly ACL and Findings of ACL. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 7/ year
- at T1 venues
- 54%
- PhD students
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- MS students
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- alumni listed
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Papers by yearfrom DBLP, 2023–2026
- 0 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 9 papers2025 · T1 6
- 12 papers2024 · T1 4
- 5 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: ACL, Findings of ACL, ICLR, NeurIPS, COLING
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Large language models8 papers
- instruction3 papers
- tuning3 papers
- instruction tuning2 papers
- synthetic data2 papers
Paper list
From DBLP.
20259 papers
- Vis. Comput.Advanced semantic segmentation of aircraft main components based on transfer learning and data-driven approach (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Evaluating Language Models as Synthetic Data Generators (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Hybrid Preferences: Learning to Route Instances for Human vs. AI Feedback (opens in a new tab)
- COLING (T1)Language Models over Large-Scale Knowledge Base: on Capacity, Flexibility and Reasoning for New Facts (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLPacking Analysis: Packing Is More Appropriate for Large Models or Datasets in Supervised Fine-tuning (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Retrieval Head Mechanistically Explains Long-Context Factuality (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.SVB: Self-Supervised Real CT Denoising via Similarity-Based Visual Blind-Spot Scheme (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Synthetic Data in the Era of Large Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- NAACL (T1)TurkingBench: A Challenge Benchmark for Web Agents (opens in a new tab)
202412 papers
- ICAC3D Reconstruction of Rail Tracks based on Fusion of RGB and Infrared Sensors (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Ind. Electron.A Fiber-Guided Motorized Rotation Laser Scanning Thermography Technique for Impact Damage Crack Inspection in Composites (opens in a new tab)
- PatternsA weighted two-stage sequence alignment framework to identify motifs from ChIP-exo data (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)BTR: Binary Token Representations for Efficient Retrieval Augmented Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Briefings Bioinform.CEMIG: prediction of the cis-regulatory motif using the de Bruijn graph from ATAC-seq (opens in a new tab)
- Briefings Bioinform.Enhancer-driven gene regulatory networks inference from single-cell RNA-seq and ATAC-seq data (opens in a new tab)
- IEEE Trans. Instrum. Meas.Hybrid-Domain Integrative Transformer Iterative Network for Spectral CT Imaging (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- Comput. Biol. MedicinePrior image-based generative adversarial learning for multi-material decomposition in photon counting computed tomography (opens in a new tab)
- ICLR (T1)Self-RAG: Learning to Retrieve, Generate, and Critique through Self-Reflection (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLSet the Clock: Temporal Alignment of Pretrained Language Models (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)Unpacking DPO and PPO: Disentangling Best Practices for Learning from Preference Feedback (opens in a new tab)
20235 papers
- ACL (T1)HINT: Hypernetwork Instruction Tuning for Efficient Zero- and Few-Shot Generalisation (opens in a new tab)
- NeurIPS (T1)How Far Can Camels Go? Exploring the State of Instruction Tuning on Open Resources (opens in a new tab)
- Findings of ACLOne Embedder, Any Task: Instruction-Finetuned Text Embeddings (opens in a new tab)
- ACL (T1)Self-Instruct: Aligning Language Models with Self-Generated Instructions (opens in a new tab)
- ICCV (T1)TIFA: Accurate and Interpretable Text-to-Image Faithfulness Evaluation with Question Answering (opens in a new tab)
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Apply to UT AustinFall 2027
Computer Science PhD
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