Yilun Zhao

PhD student, Yale University

Joined

October 2021

Names

Yilun Zhao (Preferred)

Emails

****@yale.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

Yale University (yale.edu)

2021 – Present

MS student

Yale University (yale.edu)

2021 – 2022

Undergrad student

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (uiuc.edu)

2017 – 2021

Undergrad student

Zhejiang University (zju.edu.cn)

2017 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Arman Cohan

2023 – Present

PhD Advisor

Dragomir Radev

2021 – 2023

Expertise

Natural Language Processing

2021 – Present

Publications

AlphaResearch: Accelerating New Algorithm Discovery with Language Models
Zhaojian Yu, Kaiyue Feng, Yilun Zhao, Shilin He, Xiao-Ping Zhang, Arman Cohan
- Submitted to ICLR 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Risks of AI scientists: prioritizing safeguarding over autonomy
Xiangru Tang, Qiao Jin, Kunlun Zhu, Tongxin Yuan, Yichi Zhang, Wangchunshu Zhou, Meng Qu, Yilun Zhao, Jian Tang, Zhuosheng Zhang, Arman Cohan, Dov Greenbaum, Zhiyong Lu, Mark Gerstein
- Nature Communications
- Readers: Everyone
MRMR: A Realistic and Expert-Level Multidisciplinary Benchmark for Reasoning-Intensive Multimodal Retrieval
Siyue Zhang, Yuan Gao, Xiao Zhou, Yilun Zhao, Tingyu Song, Arman Cohan, Anh Tuan Luu, Chen Zhao
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Experience Retrieval-Augmentation with Electronic Health Records Enables Accurate Discharge QA
Justice Ou, Tinglin Huang, Yilun Zhao, Ziyang Yu, Yuchen Kuang, Yan Zeng, Peiqing Lu, Rex Ying
- KDD 2025 Workshop on Prompt Optimization Poster
- Readers: Everyone
SciVer: Evaluating Foundation Models for Multimodal Scientific Claim Verification
Chengye Wang, Yifei Shen, Zexi Kuang, Arman Cohan, Yilun Zhao
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Can LLMs Generate High-Quality Test Cases for Algorithm Problems? TestCase-Eval: A Systematic Evaluation of Fault Coverage and Exposure
Zheyuan Yang, Zexi Kuang, Xue Xia, Yilun Zhao
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
SUCEA: Reasoning-Intensive Retrieval for Adversarial Fact-checking through Claim Decomposition and Editing
Hongjun Liu, Yilun Zhao, Arman Cohan, Chen Zhao
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
MultiFinBen: A Multilingual, Multimodal, and Difficulty-Aware Benchmark for Financial LLM Evaluation
Xueqing Peng, Lingfei Qian, Yan Wang, Ruoyu Xiang, Yueru He, Yang Ren, Mingyang Jiang, Jeff Zhao, Huan He, Yi Han, Yun Feng, Yuechen Jiang, Yupeng Cao, Haohang Li, Yangyang Yu, Xiaoyu Wang, Penglei Gao, Shengyuan Lin, Keyi Wang, Shanshan Yang et al. (24 additional authors not shown)
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
Measuring what Matters: Construct Validity in Large Language Model Benchmarks
Andrew M. Bean, Ryan Othniel Kearns, Angelika Romanou, Franziska Sofia Hafner, Harry Mayne, Jan Batzner, Negar Foroutan, Chris Schmitz, Karolina Korgul, Hunar Batra, Oishi Deb, Emma Beharry, Cornelius Emde, Thomas Foster, Anna Gausen, María Grandury, Simeng Han, Valentin Hofmann, Lujain Ibrahim, Hazel Kim et al. (22 additional authors not shown)
- NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track poster
- Readers: Everyone
SciArena: An Open Evaluation Platform for Non-Verifiable Scientific Literature-Grounded Tasks
Yilun Zhao, Kaiyan Zhang, Tiansheng Hu, Sihong Wu, Ronan Le Bras, Yixin Liu, Xiangru Tang, Joseph Chee Chang, Jesse Dodge, Jonathan Bragg, Chen Zhao, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Doug Downey, Arman Cohan
- NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track spotlight
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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