Yekun Chai
Scholar

Yekun Chai

Google Scholar ID: P0NRuRYAAAAJ
Baidu
natural language processingmachine learning
Citations & Impact
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Citations
866
 
H-index
12
 
i10-index
13
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
9
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • Four papers accepted to EMNLP 2025 & Findings; one paper on curiosity-driven RLHF accepted to ACL 2025; one paper on macro action RLHF accepted to ICLR 2025; three papers on PixelGPT, GPTfluence, and TKEval accepted to EMNLP 2024 & Findings; one paper on GiLOT, an XAI approach for LLMs, accepted to ICML 2024.
Research Experience
  • A core researcher on the Baidu NLP ERNIE team, contributing to the development of ERNIE-Bot (文心一言) and Baidu Comate (文心快码).
Education
  • Conducted research in RL/NLP at CASIA and received NLP training at Edinburgh Informatics under the supervision of Adam Lopez and Naomi Saphra.
Background
  • Research interests include pre-training, post-training, and reasoning research, focusing on natural language processing and beyond, specifically efficient scaling paradigms and RL methods.