Zhangyue Yin

Zhangyue Yin 印张悦

Ph.D. Candidate in Computer Science at Fudan University
Advised by Prof. Xipeng Qiu & Prof. Xuanjing Huang

About

I am a final-year Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Fudan University (expected June 2026), working with Prof. Xipeng Qiu and Prof. Xuanjing Huang at the FudanNLP Group. I received my B.S. in Data Science from East China Normal University in 2021.


My research focuses on building more reliable and capable reasoning systems for large language models. Key directions include:


◈ LLM Reasoning — uncertainty-aware guidance, cross-model communication, and hierarchical answer aggregation for complex multi-step reasoning.
◈ Reward Design — dynamic, generalizable process reward models with fine-grained multi-dimensional criteria for robust supervision.
◈ Evaluation — adaptive metrics for test-time scaling, error classification frameworks, and self-knowledge assessment of LLMs.

News

Selected Publications

* denotes equal contribution. See full list on Google Scholar.

First Author
Do Large Language Models Know What They Don't Know?
Zhangyue Yin, Qiushi Sun, Qipeng Guo, Jiawen Wu, Xipeng Qiu, Xuanjing Huang
ACL 2023
Introduced SelfAware, a dataset and automated methodology to evaluate LLMs' ability to recognize unanswerable questions, revealing intrinsic self-knowledge capabilities.
Exchange-of-Thought: Enhancing LLM Capabilities through Cross-Model Communication
Zhangyue Yin, Qiushi Sun, Cheng Chang, Qipeng Guo, Junqi Dai, Xuanjing Huang, Xipeng Qiu
EMNLP 2023
A novel framework enabling cross-model communication through four paradigms (Memory, Report, Relay, Debate) with confidence evaluation.
Reasoning in Flux: Enhancing LLM Reasoning through Uncertainty-aware Adaptive Guidance
Zhangyue Yin, Qiushi Sun, Qipeng Guo, Zhiyuan Zeng, Xiaonan Li, Junqi Dai, Qinyuan Cheng, Xuanjing Huang, Xipeng Qiu
ACL 2024
Introduced UAG, a plug-and-play approach that dynamically identifies uncertainty signals and intervenes by retracting to reliable states with certified reasoning clues.
Explicit Memory Learning with Expectation Maximization
Zhangyue Yin, Qiushi Sun, Qipeng Guo, Zhiyuan Zeng, Qinyuan Cheng, Xipeng Qiu, Xuanjing Huang
EMNLP 2024
Introduced EM², a framework treating memory as a latent variable with EM algorithm for explicit memory updates in continual learning.
Dynamic and Generalizable Process Reward Modeling
Zhangyue Yin, Qiushi Sun, Zhiyuan Zeng, Qinyuan Cheng, Xipeng Qiu, Xuanjing Huang
ACL 2025
Proposed DG-PRM with reward trees for fine-grained multi-dimensional criteria and Pareto dominance estimation, achieving superior cross-domain generalization.
Aggregation of Reasoning: A Hierarchical Framework for Enhancing Answer Selection in LLMs
Zhangyue Yin, Qiushi Sun, Qipeng Guo, Zhiyuan Zeng, Xiaonan Li, et al.
LREC-COLING 2024
Co-First Author
Rethinking Label Smoothing on Multi-hop Question Answering
Zhangyue Yin*, Yuxin Wang*, Xiannian Hu, Yiguang Wu, et al.
CCL 2023 🏆 Best Paper
Error Classification of LLMs on Math Word Problems: A Dynamically Adaptive Framework
Zhangyue Yin*, Yuhong Sun*, Xuanjing Huang, Xipeng Qiu, Hui Zhao
EMNLP 2025
Pixel-level Semantic Correspondence through Layout-aware Representation Learning
Yixuan Sun*, Zhangyue Yin*, Haibo Wang, Yan Wang, Xipeng Qiu, Weifeng Ge, Wenqiang Zhang
CVPR 2024
Scaling of Search and Learning: A Roadmap to Reproduce o1 from RL Perspective
Zhiyuan Zeng*, Qinyuan Cheng*, Zhangyue Yin*, Bo Wang*, et al.
arXiv 2024
Selected Co-authored Papers
Corex: Pushing the Boundaries of Complex Reasoning through Multi-Model Collaboration
Qiushi Sun, Zhangyue Yin, Xiang Li, Zhiyong Wu, Xipeng Qiu, Lingpeng Kong
COLM 2024
Revisiting the Test-Time Scaling of o1-like Models
Zhiyuan Zeng, Qinyuan Cheng, Zhangyue Yin, Yunhua Zhou, Xipeng Qiu
ACL 2025
Contextual Structure Knowledge Transfer for Graph Neural Networks
Zhiyuan Yu, Wenzhong Li, Zhangyue Yin, et al.
AAAI 2025
Can AI Assistants Know What They Don't Know?
Qinyuan Cheng, Tianxiang Sun, ..., Zhangyue Yin, et al.
ICML 2024
Llatrieval: LLM-Verified Retrieval for Verifiable Generation
Xiaonan Li, Changtai Zhu, Linyang Li, Zhangyue Yin, Tianxiang Sun, Xipeng Qiu
NAACL 2024
ScienceBoard: Evaluating Multimodal Autonomous Agents in Realistic Scientific Workflows
Qiushi Sun, ..., Zhangyue Yin, et al.
ICLR 2025
VLABench: A Large-Scale Benchmark for Language-Conditioned Robotics Manipulation
Shiduo Zhang, ..., Zhangyue Yin, et al.
ICCV 2025
Are LLMs Rational Investors? Detecting and Reducing Financial Bias in LLMs
Yuhang Zhou, Yuchen Ni, ..., Zhangyue Yin, et al.
ACL 2025
What Dense Graph Do You Need for Self-Attention?
Yuxin Wang, Chu-Tak Lee, Qipeng Guo, Zhangyue Yin, et al.
ICML 2022
A Survey of Reasoning with Foundation Models
Jiankai Sun, ..., Zhangyue Yin, et al.
ACM Computing Surveys 2025
The Rise and Potential of Large Language Model Based Agents: A Survey
Zhiheng Xi, ..., Zhangyue Yin, et al.
Science China Info. Sci. 2025
The Dual-edged Sword: AI's Evolving Role in Academic Peer Review
Xuanjing Huang, Shihan Dou, Zhangyue Yin
Science China Info. Sci. 2025

Experience

Tencent HY
Research Intern — Reward Design
Jan 2026 – Present
Optiver AI
Research Intern — Alpha Factor Mining with LLM Agents & RL
Sep 2025 – Nov 2025

Honors & Awards

🏅 National Scholarship
Ministry of Education, China · Dec 2024
🏆 Best Paper Award
CCL 2023 — 22nd China National Conference on Computational Linguistics
⭐ Outstanding Student
Fudan University · Nov 2022

Education

Fudan University
Ph.D. in Computer Science · GPA: 3.82/4.0
Sep 2021 – Jun 2026 (expected)
East China Normal University
B.S. in Data Science
Sep 2017 – Jun 2021