
Yong Cao
@YongCaoPlus
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Postdoc at the University of Tübingen, supervised by @andreasgeiger0 | Research: Scientific Document Analysis, Cultural AI, & LLM Agents
Tübingen, Germany
Joined October 2022
We are so excited that Scholar Inbox is supporting ACL 2025 @aclmeeting with personalized conference programs this year for the first time! https://t.co/Q0ytGl6qiB Just 5 minutes onboard and you'll get personalised recommendation of each ACL sessions. Don't miss a beat again!
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📢This year, #ACL2025NLP partners with Scholar Inbox 🤝 to provide customized conference programs based on personal research interests to attendees. 🧑💻 The personalized programs can be accessed from any mobile device or PC via web browser. 📱💻 https://t.co/H7LUITra6H 👌
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Also, we will present our ACL Demo paper: Scholar Inbox: Personalized Paper Recommendations for Scientists at Hall 5X, 28th July, 11:00-12:30. Welcome to come by and have a chat with our team! @HaoyuHe212 @MarkusFlicke
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Excited to join the IT:U summer school this year! Looking forward to learning, sharing, and connecting with amazing researchers! 😀
‼️Call for Participation: IT:U Summer School 2025 on Natural Language Processing‼️ We are excited to announce that the IT:U Summer School 2025, focused on NLP, will take place on July 25–26 in Linz, Austria, just ahead of #ACL2025. 🔗 Register here: https://t.co/vKppVNP9ZR
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📣 Excited to share our #CVPR2025 Spotlight paper and my internship project @wayve_ai: SimLingo. A Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that achieves state-of-the-art driving performance with language capabilities. Code: https://t.co/hGMsXGAxPS Paper: https://t.co/cx0QCKMl3z
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📣 Excited about our Cross Cultural Considerations in NLP workshop! @c3_nlp @ @naaclmeeting coming up in no time—just two weeks to go! Full program here: https://t.co/YZK3EcaU1W Co-org. w/ @sunipa17 @LucianaBenotti @daniel_hers @vinodkpg @YongCaoPlus @LiZhou21 @IfeAdebara ❤️
c3nlp.github.io
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For more analysis and details, check out our paper: https://t.co/fbzEbONHbT Our code is available here:
github.com
Code for Simulating LLMs' cultural responses distribution. - yongcaoplus/SimLLMCultureDist
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🔍 Findings: Testing on three model families & seven models, our method consistently outperforms other approaches —even on unseen questions, countries, and an entirely new survey. While challenges still remain, we demonstrate the benefits of specialization for simulation.🚀
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📂 Dataset: We construct the simulation dataset from the World Values Survey (WVS) in both English & Chinese. To test generalization, we use a subset of GlobalOpinionQA, specifically the Pew Global Attitudes Survey.
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🛠 Method: We introduce a fine-tuning approach that uses first-token probabilities to align predicted and actual survey response distributions. By optimizing with KL divergence loss, our method effectively minimizes divergence from real-world survey data. 📊
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💡Motivation: Large-scale surveys are crucial for social science, but they’re expensive and time-consuming. What if LLMs could simulate group-level survey results? Thus, we try to specialize LLMs for simulating this task, using country-level data from cultural surveys. 🌍
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🎉 Excited to share our NAACL main paper on simulating survey response distributions via first-token alignment fine-tuning. Many thanks to our collaborators: Haijiang Liu, @rnav_arora @IAugenstein @paul_rottger and @daniel_hers. More details, paper link and code, see below👇
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Transforming Science with LLMs A comprehensive survey on AI-assisted scientific discovery, experimentation, content generation, and evaluation.
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Very interesting work that comprehensively investigates cultural knowledge in LLMs in the domain of food! Looking forward to more discussion at NAACL.
📢Happy to share our paper "Does Mapo Tofu Contain Coffee? Probing LLMs for Food-related Cultural Knowledge" has been accepted to #NAACL2025 main! Work with Taelin Karidi, Wanlong Liu, @nGarneau @YongCaoPlus , Wenyu Chen, Haizhou Li, @daniel_hers
https://t.co/LKEc5FcEco
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📣 Second Call for Papers! 🎉 We’re extending our CFP to February 6, 2025 ⏳—more time to submit your work on culture, society & NLP! 📅 New Deadline: Feb 6, 2025 🔗 Workshop details: https://t.co/iSYTYMh5N1 Submit now & join us! 📝✨ #NLP #C3NLP #CulturalNLP #NAACL2025
c3nlp.github.io
📣 C3NLP 2025 CFP now out 🎉 We’re thrilled to announce C3NLP will be at NAACL 2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico! 🌎 📅 Workshop Details: https://t.co/HeOqMwXyx8 Co-organized w/ @vinodkpg @sunipa17 @LucianaBenotti @daniel_hers @YongCaoPlus @LauraCabelloPi @LiZhou21 @IfeAdebara
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It's hugely disappointing to hear such arguments from a top AI conference. 😡More efforts are needed to avoid LLMs aligning with these offensive points. (Sometimes LLMs behave more polite and respectful so far...)
1/3 Today, an anecdote shared by an invited speaker at #NeurIPS2024 left many Chinese scholars, myself included, feeling uncomfortable. As a community, I believe we should take a moment to reflect on why such remarks in public discourse can be offensive and harmful.
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Looking forward to discussing fascinating cultural research and meeting again next May! 😊 Please check for our CFP details if you are interested!🗓️
📣 C3NLP 2025 CFP now out 🎉 We’re thrilled to announce C3NLP will be at NAACL 2025 in Albuquerque, New Mexico! 🌎 📅 Workshop Details: https://t.co/HeOqMwXyx8 Co-organized w/ @vinodkpg @sunipa17 @LucianaBenotti @daniel_hers @YongCaoPlus @LauraCabelloPi @LiZhou21 @IfeAdebara
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Thrilled to have participated in such an insightful workshop! A fantastic opportunity to meet, brainstorm, and engage in discussions with brilliant minds.
We had a blast at this year's @ELLISforEurope @dagstuhl seminar on "Modular and Agentive LLMs". Thanks everyone for participating!
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Recent work led by @constanzafierro and @negarforoutan on understanding the mechanisms behind multilingual factual recall
How do multilingual models store and retrieve factual knowledge in different languages? And do these mechanisms vary across languages? 🗺️ In our newly released paper, we explore these questions! 📄 https://t.co/v11BRuLYig 🤗 @negarforoutan @delliott 🧵👇
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