Xunjian Yin
Scholar

Xunjian Yin

Google Scholar ID: PociQ5EAAAAJ
Peking University
LLMAgentReasoning
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
566
 
H-index
10
 
i10-index
11
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
12
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Preprints:
  • - The Geometry of Reasoning: Flowing Logics in Representation Space
  • - LEDOM: An Open and Fundamental Reverse Language Model
  • - ContraSolver: Self-Alignment of Language Models by Resolving Internal Preference Contradictions
  • - Selected Publications:
  • - DAMON: A Dialogue-Aware MCTS Framework for Jailbreaking Large Language Models
  • - Gödel Agent: A Self-Referential Agent Framework for Recursive Self-Improvement
  • - Themis: A Reference-free NLG Evaluation Language Model with Flexibility and Interpretability
  • - Benchmarking Knowledge Boundary for Large Language Model: A Different Perspective on Model Evaluation
  • - History Matters: Temporal Knowledge Editing in Large Language Model
  • - ALCUNA: Large Language Models Meet New Knowledge
  • - How Do Seq2Seq Models Perform on End-to-End Data-to-Text Generation?
  • - Selected Projects:
  • - Overleaf-Bib-Helper
  • - Gödel Agent
  • - Music Letter
Research Experience
  • - June 2025 - Aug. 2025, Shanghai AI Lab, Mentor: Dr. Jie Fu, Reinforcement Learning
  • - June 2024 - February 2025, UCSB NLP Group, Mentor: Prof. William Yang Wang, One paper about Self-Referential Agent Framework; Ongoing work on reverse language model pre-training
  • - Feb. 2022 ~ Aug. 2022, Microsoft Research Asia (NLC Group), Mentors: Dr. Kai Chen and Dr. Shuming Ma, Pre-training with Curriculum Learning and OCR
  • - Oct. 2020 - June 2022, Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University, Mentor: Prof. Xiaojun Wan, One paper at ACL 2022 on data-to-text generation
  • - Apr. 2020 - Nov. 2021, Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking University, Mentor: Prof. Yunfang Wu, Multi-Task Learning for Grammar Error Correction
  • - July 2019 - Dec. 2019, Institute of Computational Linguistics, Peking University, Incomplete information
Education
  • - Duke University, CS PhD student, Advisor: Prof. Shuyan Zhou
  • - Peking University, Master's and Bachelor's degree, Advisor: Prof. Xiaojun Wan
Background
  • - Research Interests: Making models more generalizable across real-world tasks, believes in recursive self-improvement as the path to general intelligence
  • - Current Research Focus: Self-referential agents and world models
  • - Believes in using methods that are simple, scalable, generalizable, and graceful
Miscellany
  • Personal Interests: Photography