Yifan Gao

68 papers A* 9A 1Journal 38Unranked 20
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Agentic Conversational Search with Contextualized Reasoning via Reinforcement Learning.
CoRR
Fengran Mo, Yifan Gao, Sha Li, Hansi Zeng, Xin Liu, Zhaoxuan Tan, Xian Li, Jianshu Chen, Dakuo Wang, Meng Jiang
2026 J jnl
HeaPA: Difficulty-Aware Heap Sampling and On-Policy Query Augmentation for LLM Reinforcement Learning.
CoRR
Weiqi Wang, Xin Liu, Binxuan Huang, Hejie Cui, Rongzhi Zhang, Changlong Yu, Shuowei Jin, Jingfeng Yang, Qingyu Yin, Zhengyang Wang, Zheng Li, Yifan Gao, Priyanka Nigam, Bing Yin, Lihong Li, Yangqiu Song
2026 J jnl
Leveraging historical information to boost retrieval-augmented generation in conversations.
Inf. Process. Manag.
Fengran Mo, Yifan Gao, Zhuofeng Wu, Xin Liu, Pei Chen, Zheng Li, Zhengyang Wang, Xian Li, Meng Jiang, Jian-Yun Nie
2026 J jnl
SynPlanResearch-R1: Encouraging Tool Exploration for Deep Research with Synthetic Plans.
CoRR
Hansi Zeng, Zoey Li, Yifan Gao, Chenwei Zhang, Xiaoman Pan, Tao Yang, Fengran Mo, Jiacheng Lin, Xian Li, Jingbo Shang
2025 — conf
ALERT: An LLM-powered Benchmark for Automatic Evaluation of Recommendation Explanations.
NAACL (Long Papers)
Yichuan Li, Xinyang Zhang, Chenwei Zhang, Mao Li, Tianyi Liu, Pei Chen, Yifan Gao, Kyumin Lee, Kaize Ding, Zhengyang Wang, Zhihan Zhang, Jingbo Shang, Xian Li, Trishul Chilimbi
2025 — conf
Aligning Large Language Models with Implicit Preferences from User-Generated Content.
ACL (1)
Zhaoxuan Tan, Zheng Li, Tianyi Liu, Haodong Wang, Hyokun Yun, Ming Zeng, Pei Chen, Zhihan Zhang, Yifan Gao, Ruijie Wang, Priyanka Nigam, Bing Yin, Meng Jiang
2025 J jnl
Aligning Large Language Models with Implicit Preferences from User-Generated Content.
CoRR
Zhaoxuan Tan, Zheng Li, Tianyi Liu, Haodong Wang, Hyokun Yun, Ming Zeng, Pei Chen, Zhihan Zhang, Yifan Gao, Ruijie Wang, Priyanka Nigam, Bing Yin, Meng Jiang
2025 — conf
Can Language Models Follow Multiple Turns of Entangled Instructions?
EMNLP (Findings)
Chi Han, Xin Liu, Haodong Wang, Shiyang Li, Jingfeng Yang, Haoming Jiang, Zhengyang Wang, Qingyu Yin, Liang Qiu, Changlong Yu, Yifan Gao, Zheng Li, Bing Yin, Jingbo Shang, Heng Ji
2025 — conf
EcomScriptBench: A Multi-task Benchmark for E-commerce Script Planning via Step-wise Intention-Driven Product Association.
ACL (1)
Weiqi Wang, Limeng Cui, Xin Liu, Sreyashi Nag, Wenju Xu, Chen Luo, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Yang Li, Hansu Gu, Hui Liu, Changlong Yu, Jiaxin Bai, Yifan Gao, Haiyang Zhang, Qi He, Shuiwang Ji, Yangqiu Song
2025 J jnl
EcomScriptBench: A Multi-task Benchmark for E-commerce Script Planning via Step-wise Intention-Driven Product Association.
CoRR
Weiqi Wang, Limeng Cui, Xin Liu, Sreyashi Nag, Wenju Xu, Chen Luo, Sheikh Muhammad Sarwar, Yang Li, Hansu Gu, Hui Liu, Changlong Yu, Jiaxin Bai, Yifan Gao, Haiyang Zhang, Qi He, Shuiwang Ji, Yangqiu Song
2025 — conf
Hephaestus: Improving Fundamental Agent Capabilities of Large Language Models through Continual Pre-Training.
NAACL (Long Papers)
Yuchen Zhuang, Jingfeng Yang, Haoming Jiang, Xin Liu, Kewei Cheng, Sanket Lokegaonkar, Yifan Gao, Qing Ping, Tianyi Liu, Binxuan Huang, Zheng Li, Zhengyang Wang, Pei Chen, Ruijie Wang, Rongzhi Zhang, Nasser Zalmout, Priyanka Nigam, Bing Yin, Chao Zhang
2025 J jnl
Hephaestus: Improving Fundamental Agent Capabilities of Large Language Models through Continual Pre-Training.
CoRR
Yuchen Zhuang, Jingfeng Yang, Haoming Jiang, Xin Liu, Kewei Cheng, Sanket Lokegaonkar, Yifan Gao, Qing Ping, Tianyi Liu, Binxuan Huang, Zheng Li, Zhengyang Wang, Pei Chen, Ruijie Wang, Rongzhi Zhang, Nasser Zalmout, Priyanka Nigam, Bing Yin, Chao Zhang
2025 — conf
IHEval: Evaluating Language Models on Following the Instruction Hierarchy.
NAACL (Long Papers)
Zhihan Zhang, Shiyang Li, Zixuan Zhang, Xin Liu, Haoming Jiang, Xianfeng Tang, Yifan Gao, Zheng Li, Haodong Wang, Zhaoxuan Tan, Yichuan Li, Qingyu Yin, Bing Yin, Meng Jiang
2025 J jnl
IHEval: Evaluating Language Models on Following the Instruction Hierarchy.
CoRR
Zhihan Zhang, Shiyang Li, Zixuan Zhang, Xin Liu, Haoming Jiang, Xianfeng Tang, Yifan Gao, Zheng Li, Haodong Wang, Zhaoxuan Tan, Yichuan Li, Qingyu Yin, Bing Yin, Meng Jiang
2025 A* conf
M+: Extending MemoryLLM with Scalable Long-Term Memory.
ICML
Yu Wang, Dmitry Krotov, Yuanzhe Hu, Yifan Gao, Wangchunshu Zhou, Julian J. McAuley, Dan Gutfreund, Rogério Feris, Zexue He
2025 J jnl
M+: Extending MemoryLLM with Scalable Long-Term Memory.
CoRR
Yu Wang, Dmitry Krotov, Yuanzhe Hu, Yifan Gao, Wangchunshu Zhou, Julian J. McAuley, Dan Gutfreund, Rogério Feris, Zexue He
2025 J jnl
PersonaAgent: When Large Language Model Agents Meet Personalization at Test Time.
CoRR
Weizhi Zhang, Xinyang Zhang, Chenwei Zhang, Liangwei Yang, Jingbo Shang, Zhepei Wei, Henry Peng Zou, Zijie Huang, Zhengyang Wang, Yifan Gao, Xiaoman Pan, Lian Xiong, Jingguo Liu, Philip S. Yu, Xian Li
2025 J jnl
Scaling Laws for Predicting Downstream Performance in LLMs.
Trans. Mach. Learn. Res.
Yangyi Chen, Binxuan Huang, Yifan Gao, Zhengyang Wang, Jingfeng Yang, Heng Ji
2025 J jnl
SessionIntentBench: A Multi-task Inter-session Intention-shift Modeling Benchmark for E-commerce Customer Behavior Understanding.
CoRR
Yuqi Yang, Weiqi Wang, Baixuan Xu, Wei Fan, Qing Zong, Chunkit Chan, Zheye Deng, Xin Liu, Yifan Gao, Changlong Yu, Chen Luo, Yang Li, Zheng Li, Qingyu Yin, Bing Yin, Yangqiu Song
2025 — conf
UniConv: Unifying Retrieval and Response Generation for Large Language Models in Conversations.
ACL (1)
Fengran Mo, Yifan Gao, Chuan Meng, Xin Liu, Zhuofeng Wu, Kelong Mao, Zhengyang Wang, Pei Chen, Zheng Li, Xian Li, Bing Yin, Meng Jiang
2025 J jnl
UniConv: Unifying Retrieval and Response Generation for Large Language Models in Conversations.
CoRR
Fengran Mo, Yifan Gao, Chuan Meng, Xin Liu, Zhuofeng Wu, Kelong Mao, Zhengyang Wang, Pei Chen, Zheng Li, Xian Li, Bing Yin, Meng Jiang
2024 — conf
COSMO: A Large-Scale E-commerce Common Sense Knowledge Generation and Serving System at Amazon.
SIGMOD Conference Companion
Changlong Yu, Xin Liu, Jefferson Maia, Yang Li, Tianyu Cao, Yifan Gao, Yangqiu Song, Rahul Goutam, Haiyang Zhang, Bing Yin, Zheng Li
2024 J jnl
Inductive or Deductive? Rethinking the Fundamental Reasoning Abilities of LLMs.
CoRR
Kewei Cheng, Jingfeng Yang, Haoming Jiang, Zhengyang Wang, Binxuan Huang, Ruirui Li, Shiyang Li, Zheng Li, Yifan Gao, Xian Li, Bing Yin, Yizhou Sun
2024 A* conf
Large Language Models Are Poor Clinical Decision-Makers: A Comprehensive Benchmark.
EMNLP
Fenglin Liu, Zheng Li, Hongjian Zhou, Qingyu Yin, Jingfeng Yang, Xianfeng Tang, Chen Luo, Ming Zeng, Haoming Jiang, Yifan Gao, Priyanka Nigam, Sreyashi Nag, Bing Yin, Yining Hua, Xuan Zhou, Omid Rohanian, Anshul Thakur, Lei A. Clifton, David A. Clifton
2024 A* conf
MEMORYLLM: Towards Self-Updatable Large Language Models.
ICML
Yu Wang, Yifan Gao, Xiusi Chen, Haoming Jiang, Shiyang Li, Jingfeng Yang, Qingyu Yin, Zheng Li, Xian Li, Bing Yin, Jingbo Shang, Julian J. McAuley
2024 J jnl
Scaling Laws for Predicting Downstream Performance in LLMs.
CoRR
Yangyi Chen, Binxuan Huang, Yifan Gao, Zhengyang Wang, Jingfeng Yang, Heng Ji
2024 A* conf
Shopping MMLU: A Massive Multi-Task Online Shopping Benchmark for Large Language Models.
NeurIPS
Yilun Jin, Zheng Li, Chenwei Zhang, Tianyu Cao, Yifan Gao, Pratik Jayarao, Mao Li, Xin Liu, Ritesh Sarkhel, Xianfeng Tang, Haodong Wang, Zhengyang Wang, Wenju Xu, Jingfeng Yang, Qingyu Yin, Xian Li, Priyanka Nigam, Yi Xu, Kai Chen, Qiang Yang, Meng Jiang, Bing Yin
2024 J jnl
Shopping MMLU: A Massive Multi-Task Online Shopping Benchmark for Large Language Models.
CoRR
Yilun Jin, Zheng Li, Chenwei Zhang, Tianyu Cao, Yifan Gao, Pratik Jayarao, Mao Li, Xin Liu, Ritesh Sarkhel, Xianfeng Tang, Haodong Wang, Zhengyang Wang, Wenju Xu, Jingfeng Yang, Qingyu Yin, Xian Li, Priyanka Nigam, Yi Xu, Kai Chen, Qiang Yang, Meng Jiang, Bing Yin
2023 J jnl
CCGen: Explainable Complementary Concept Generation in E-Commerce.
CoRR
Jie Huang, Yifan Gao, Zheng Li, Jingfeng Yang, Yangqiu Song, Chao Zhang, Zining Zhu, Haoming Jiang, Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang, Bing Yin
2023 A* conf
Enhancing User Intent Capture in Session-Based Recommendation with Attribute Patterns.
NeurIPS
Xin Liu, Zheng Li, Yifan Gao, Jingfeng Yang, Tianyu Cao, Zhengyang Wang, Bing Yin, Yangqiu Song
2023 J jnl
Enhancing User Intent Capture in Session-Based Recommendation with Attribute Patterns.
CoRR
Xin Liu, Zheng Li, Yifan Gao, Jingfeng Yang, Tianyu Cao, Zhengyang Wang, Bing Yin, Yangqiu Song
2023 — conf
FolkScope: Intention Knowledge Graph Construction for E-commerce Commonsense Discovery.
ACL (Findings)
Changlong Yu, Weiqi Wang, Xin Liu, Jiaxin Bai, Yangqiu Song, Zheng Li, Yifan Gao, Tianyu Cao, Bing Yin
2023 — conf
Graph Reasoning for Question Answering with Triplet Retrieval.
ACL (Findings)
Shiyang Li, Yifan Gao, Haoming Jiang, Qingyu Yin, Zheng Li, Xifeng Yan, Chao Zhang, Bing Yin
2023 J jnl
Graph Reasoning for Question Answering with Triplet Retrieval.
CoRR
Shiyang Li, Yifan Gao, Haoming Jiang, Qingyu Yin, Zheng Li, Xifeng Yan, Chao Zhang, Bing Yin
2023 — conf
Improving Consistency for Text Summarization with Energy Functions.
EMNLP (Findings)
Qi Zeng, Qingyu Yin, Zheng Li, Yifan Gao, Sreyashi Nag, Zhengyang Wang, Bing Yin, Heng Ji, Chao Zhang
2023 J jnl
Improving task generalization via unified schema prompt.
AI Open
Wanjun Zhong, Yifan Gao, Ning Ding, Zhiyuan Liu, Ming Zhou, Jiahai Wang, Jian Yin, Nan Duan
2023 — conf
Knowledge-Selective Pretraining for Attribute Value Extraction.
EMNLP (Findings)
Hui Liu, Qingyu Yin, Zhengyang Wang, Chenwei Zhang, Haoming Jiang, Yifan Gao, Zheng Li, Xian Li, Chao Zhang, Bing Yin, William Wang, Xiaodan Zhu
2023 — conf
SCOTT: Self-Consistent Chain-of-Thought Distillation.
ACL (1)
Peifeng Wang, Zhengyang Wang, Zheng Li, Yifan Gao, Bing Yin, Xiang Ren
2023 J jnl
SCOTT: Self-Consistent Chain-of-Thought Distillation.
CoRR
Peifeng Wang, Zhengyang Wang, Zheng Li, Yifan Gao, Bing Yin, Xiang Ren
2023 J jnl
Situated Natural Language Explanations.
CoRR
Zining Zhu, Haoming Jiang, Jingfeng Yang, Sreyashi Nag, Chao Zhang, Jie Huang, Yifan Gao, Frank Rudzicz, Bing Yin
2022 J jnl
FolkScope: Intention Knowledge Graph Construction for Discovering E-commerce Commonsense.
CoRR
Changlong Yu, Weiqi Wang, Xin Liu, Jiaxin Bai, Yangqiu Song, Zheng Li, Yifan Gao, Tianyu Cao, Bing Yin
2022 J jnl
Improving Task Generalization via Unified Schema Prompt.
CoRR
Wanjun Zhong, Yifan Gao, Ning Ding, Zhiyuan Liu, Ming Zhou, Jiahai Wang, Jian Yin, Nan Duan
2022 — conf
ProQA: Structural Prompt-based Pre-training for Unified Question Answering.
NAACL-HLT
Wanjun Zhong, Yifan Gao, Ning Ding, Yujia Qin, Zhiyuan Liu, Ming Zhou, Jiahai Wang, Jian Yin, Nan Duan
2022 J jnl
ProQA: Structural Prompt-based Pre-training for Unified Question Answering.
CoRR
Wanjun Zhong, Yifan Gao, Ning Ding, Yujia Qin, Zhiyuan Liu, Ming Zhou, Jiahai Wang, Jian Yin, Nan Duan
2022 A conf
Query Attribute Recommendation at Amazon Search.
RecSys
Chen Luo, William Headden, Neela Avudaiappan, Haoming Jiang, Tianyu Cao, Qingyu Yin, Yifan Gao, Zheng Li, Rahul Goutam, Haiyang Zhang, Bing Yin
2022 — conf
Retrieval-Augmented Multilingual Keyphrase Generation with Retriever-Generator Iterative Training.
NAACL-HLT (Findings)
Yifan Gao, Qingyu Yin, Zheng Li, Rui Meng, Tong Zhao, Bing Yin, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
2022 J jnl
Retrieval-Augmented Multilingual Keyphrase Generation with Retriever-Generator Iterative Training.
CoRR
Yifan Gao, Qingyu Yin, Zheng Li, Rui Meng, Tong Zhao, Bing Yin, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
2021 — conf
Answering Ambiguous Questions through Generative Evidence Fusion and Round-Trip Prediction.
ACL/IJCNLP (1)
Yifan Gao, Henghui Zhu, Patrick Ng, Cícero Nogueira dos Santos, Zhiguo Wang, Feng Nan, Dejiao Zhang, Ramesh Nallapati, Andrew O. Arnold, Bing Xiang
2021 J jnl
Open-Retrieval Conversational Machine Reading.
CoRR
Yifan Gao, Jingjing Li, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King
2020 J jnl
Answering Ambiguous Questions through Generative Evidence Fusion and Round-Trip Prediction.
CoRR
Yifan Gao, Henghui Zhu, Patrick Ng, Cícero Nogueira dos Santos, Zhiguo Wang, Feng Nan, Dejiao Zhang, Ramesh Nallapati, Andrew O. Arnold, Bing Xiang
2020 — conf
Dialogue Generation on Infrequent Sentence Functions via Structured Meta-Learning.
EMNLP (Findings)
Yifan Gao, Piji Li, Wei Bi, Xiaojiang Liu, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King
2020 J jnl
Dialogue Generation on Infrequent Sentence Functions via Structured Meta-Learning.
CoRR
Yifan Gao, Piji Li, Wei Bi, Xiaojiang Liu, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King
2020 — conf
Discern: Discourse-Aware Entailment Reasoning Network for Conversational Machine Reading.
EMNLP (1)
Yifan Gao, Chien-Sheng Wu, Jingjing Li, Shafiq R. Joty, Steven C. H. Hoi, Caiming Xiong, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
2020 J jnl
Discern: Discourse-Aware Entailment Reasoning Network for Conversational Machine Reading.
CoRR
Yifan Gao, Chien-Sheng Wu, Jingjing Li, Shafiq R. Joty, Steven C. H. Hoi, Caiming Xiong, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
2020 J jnl
EMT: Explicit Memory Tracker with Coarse-to-Fine Reasoning for Conversational Machine Reading.
CoRR
Yifan Gao, Chien-Sheng Wu, Shafiq R. Joty, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu, Steven C. H. Hoi
2020 A* conf
Explicit Memory Tracker with Coarse-to-Fine Reasoning for Conversational Machine Reading.
ACL
Yifan Gao, Chien-Sheng Wu, Shafiq R. Joty, Caiming Xiong, Richard Socher, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu, Steven C. H. Hoi
2019 A* conf
Difficulty Controllable Generation of Reading Comprehension Questions.
IJCAI
Yifan Gao, Lidong Bing, Wang Chen, Michael R. Lyu, Irwin King
2019 A* conf
Generating Distractors for Reading Comprehension Questions from Real Examinations.
AAAI
Yifan Gao, Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
2019 — conf
Improving Question Generation With to the Point Context.
EMNLP/IJCNLP (1)
Jingjing Li, Yifan Gao, Lidong Bing, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
2019 J jnl
Improving Question Generation With to the Point Context.
CoRR
Jingjing Li, Yifan Gao, Lidong Bing, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
2019 — conf
Interconnected Question Generation with Coreference Alignment and Conversation Flow Modeling.
ACL (1)
Yifan Gao, Piji Li, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
2019 J jnl
Interconnected Question Generation with Coreference Alignment and Conversation Flow Modeling.
CoRR
Yifan Gao, Piji Li, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
2019 A* conf
Title-Guided Encoding for Keyphrase Generation.
AAAI
Wang Chen, Yifan Gao, Jiani Zhang, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
2018 J jnl
Difficulty Controllable Question Generation for Reading Comprehension.
CoRR
Yifan Gao, Jianan Wang, Lidong Bing, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
2018 J jnl
Generating Distractors for Reading Comprehension Questions from Real Examinations.
CoRR
Yifan Gao, Lidong Bing, Piji Li, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
2018 J jnl
Title-Guided Encoding for Keyphrase Generation.
CoRR
Wang Chen, Yifan Gao, Jiani Zhang, Irwin King, Michael R. Lyu
2017 J jnl
Learning multi-level features for sensor-based human action recognition.
Pervasive Mob. Comput.
Yan Xu, Zhengyang Shen, Xin Zhang, Yifan Gao, Shujian Deng, Yipei Wang, Yubo Fan, Eric I-Chao Chang
2016 J jnl
Learning Multi-level Features For Sensor-based Human Action Recognition.
CoRR
Yan Xu, Zhengyang Shen, Xin Zhang, Yifan Gao, Shujian Deng, Yipei Wang, Yubo Fan, Eric I-Chao Chang