I am a first-year Ph.D. student at the University of Southern California, advised by Prof. Robin Jia. Before that, I interned at GAIR Lab, woking with my amazing advisor, Prof. Pengfei Liu. I received my master’s degree from Fudan Univeristy, advised by Xipeng Qiu, and obtained my bachelor’s degree from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2021.

My primary research interests revolve around LLM understanding, with a particular focus on issues related to LLM knowledge and reasoning. Previously, I worked in the area of Information Extraction.

Education

  • University of Southern California
    Ph.D. in Computer Science, 2024 - Present
    Advisor: Prof. Robin Jia
  • Fudan University
    M.S. in Computer Science, 2021 - 2024
    Advisor: Prof. Xipeng Qiu
  • University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
    B.E. in Computer Science, 2017 - 2021
    GPA: 3.94/4.00, Rankings: 3/112

Experience

  • GAIR Lab, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
    Advisor: Prof. Pengfei Liu
    June 2023 - June 2024
  • Amazon AWS AI
    Advisors: Dr. Qipeng Guo, Prof. Zheng Zhang, Prof. Yue Zhang
    July 2021 - June 2023
  • Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences
    Advisors: Prof. Jun Zhao, Prof. Yubo Chen
    September 2020 - June 2021

Publications

* denotes co-first authors

Weak-to-Strong Reasoning
Yuqing Yang, Yan Ma, Pengfei Liu
EMNLP Findings 2024. [paper] [code]

BeHonest: Benchmarking Honesty of Large Language Models
Steffi Chern*, Zhulin Hu*, Yuqing Yang*, Ethan Chern, Yuan Guo, Jiahe Jin, Binjie Wang, Pengfei Liu
preprint arXiv 2024. [paper] [code]

OlympicArena: Benchmarking Multi-discipline Cognitive Reasoning for Superintelligent AI Zhen Huang, Zengzhi Wang, Shijie Xia, Xuefeng Li, Haoyang Zou, Ruijie Xu, Run-Ze Fan, Lyumanshan Ye, Ethan Chern, Yixin Ye, Yikai Zhang, Yuqing Yang, Ting Wu, Binjie Wang, Shichao Sun, Yang Xiao, Yiyuan Li, Fan Zhou, Steffi Chern, Yiwei Qin, Yan Ma, Jiadi Su, Yixiu Liu, Yuxiang Zheng, Shaoting Zhang, Dahua Lin, Yu Qiao, Pengfei Liu
NeurIPS Datasets and Benchmarks 2024. [paper]

Alignment for Honesty
Yuqing Yang, Ethan Chern, Xipeng Qiu, Graham Neubig, Pengfei Liu
NeurIPS 2024. [paper] [code]

Full Parameter Fine-tuning for Large Language Models with Limited Resources
Kai Lv, Yuqing Yang, Tengxiao Liu, Qinghui Gao, Qipeng Guo, Xipeng Qiu
ACL 2024 (Oral). [paper] [code]

Plan, Verify and Switch: Integrated Reasoning with Diverse X-of-Thoughts
Tengxiao Liu, Qipeng Guo, Yuqing Yang, Xiangkun Hu, Yue Zhang, Xipeng Qiu, Zheng Zhang
EMNLP 2023. [paper]

Awards

National Scholarship in 2017-2018

Outstanding Graduate of Beijing

Outstanding Graduate of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Xiaomi Scholarship in 2022-2023

Outstanding Graduate of Fudan University