Scholar
Yining Lu
Google Scholar ID: V2kb41AAAAAJ
University of Notre Dame
Citations & Impact
Citations
47
H-index
5
i10-index
1
Publications
9
Co-authors
3
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Publications:
- - 'CreativityPrism: A Holistic Benchmark for Large Language Model Creativity', arXiv, released on October 27, 2025
- - 'Learning to Optimize Multi-Objective Alignment Through Dynamic Reward Weighting', arXiv, released on September 15, 2025
- - 'Dynamic Decomposition' and 'RATIONALYST', accepted to ACL 2025 main conference
- - 'Optimizing Decomposition for Optimal Claim Verification', arXiv, released on March 19, 2025
- - 'Benchmarking Language Model Creativity: A Case Study on Code Generation', NAACL 2025
- - 'RORA: Robust Free-Text Rationale Evaluation', ACL 2024
- - 'GEAR: Augmenting Language Models with Generalizable and Efficient Tool Resolution', EACL 2024
Research Experience
- - Researcher at DM2 lab, University of Notre Dame
- - Former applied scientist intern at Amazon
- - Graduate research assistant at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Language and Speech Processing
Education
- - Degree: PhD (in progress)
- - School: University of Notre Dame
- - Advisor: Prof. Meng Jiang
- - Time: Present
- - Major: Computer Science
- - Other Educational Experiences: Worked as an applied scientist intern at Amazon and as a graduate research assistant at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Language and Speech Processing, advised by Prof. Daniel Khashabi.
Background
- - Research Interests: Natural language processing and reinforcement learning, focusing on the evaluation of LLM on reasoning tasks and interpretability of RL
- - Field: Computer Science and Engineering
- - Brief Introduction: Currently a second-year PhD student in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame, researching explainable and trustworthy QA and multi-objective RL.
Miscellany
- - Organized Midwest Speech and Language Days (MSLD) at the University of Notre Dame, with over 130 registrations, 75 presentations, and 4 keynote speakers.
