Yunzhi Yao

PhD student, Zhejiang University

Joined

November 2021

Names

Yunzhi Yao (Preferred)

Emails

****@zju.edu.cn (Confirmed)

****@g.ucla.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

PhD student

Zhejiang University (zju.edu.cn)

2021 – Present

Researcher

University of California, Los Angeles (ucla.edu)

2024 – 2025

Undergrad student

Shandong University (sdu.edu.cn)

2017 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Huajun Chen

Present

Coauthor

Nanyun Peng

Present

Coauthor

Shaohan Huang

Present

PhD Advisor

Ningyu Zhang

Present

Expertise

No areas of expertise listed

Publications

SkillNet: Create, Evaluate, and Connect AI Skills
Yuan Liang, Ruobin Zhong, Haoming Xu, Chen Jiang, Yi Zhong, Runnan Fang, Jia-Chen Gu, Shumin Deng, Yunzhi Yao, Mengru Wang, Shuofei Qiao, Xin Xu, Tongtong Wu, Zhen Bi, Jungang Lou, Yuchen Eleanor Jiang, Hangcheng Zhu, Gang Yu, Haiwen Hong, Longtao Huang et al. (18 additional authors not shown)
- AgentSkills 2026 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
From Data to Behavior: Predicting Unintended Model Behaviors Before Training
Mengru Wang, Zhenqian Xu, Junfeng Fang, Yunzhi Yao, Shumin Deng, Huajun Chen, Ningyu Zhang
- ICLR 2026 Trustworthy AI
- Readers: Everyone
Why Steering Works: Toward a Unified View of Language Model Parameter Dynamics
Ziwen Xu, Chenyan WU, Hengyu Sun, Haiwen Hong, Mengru Wang, Yunzhi Yao, Longtao Huang, Hui Xue, Shumin Deng, Zhixuan Chu, Huajun Chen, Ningyu Zhang
- ICLR 2026 Trustworthy AI
- Readers: Everyone
Illusions of Confidence? Diagnosing LLM Truthfulness via Neighborhood Consistency
Haoming Xu, Ningyuan Zhao, Yunzhi Yao, Weihong Xu, Hongru WANG, Xinle Deng, Shumin Deng, Jeff Z. Pan, Huajun Chen, Ningyu Zhang
- ICLR 2026 Trustworthy AI
- Readers: Everyone
Survey on Factuality in Large Language Models
Cunxiang Wang, Xiaoze Liu, Yuanhao Yue, Qipeng Guo, Xiangkun Hu, Xiangru Tang, Tianhang Zhang, Cheng Jiayang, Yunzhi Yao, Xuming Hu, Zehan Qi, Wenyang Gao, Yidong Wang, Linyi Yang, Jindong Wang, Xing Xie, Zheng Zhang, Yue Zhang
- ACM Comput. Surv. 2026
- Readers: Everyone
Energy-Regularized Sequential Model Editing on Hyperspheres
Qingyuan Liu, Jia-Chen Gu, Yunzhi Yao, Hong Wang, Nanyun Peng
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
LightMem: Lightweight and Efficient Memory-Augmented Generation
Jizhan Fang, Xinle Deng, Haoming Xu, Ziyan Jiang, Yuqi Tang, Ziwen Xu, Shumin Deng, Yunzhi Yao, Mengru Wang, Shuofei Qiao, Huajun Chen, Ningyu Zhang
- CoRR 2025
- Readers: Everyone
LightMem: Lightweight and Efficient Memory-Augmented Generation
Jizhan Fang, Xinle Deng, Haoming Xu, Ziyan Jiang, Yuqi Tang, Ziwen Xu, Shumin Deng, Yunzhi Yao, Mengru Wang, Shuofei Qiao, Huajun Chen, Ningyu Zhang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Energy-Regularized Sequential Model Editing on Hyperspheres
Qingyuan Liu, Jia-Chen Gu, Yunzhi Yao, Hong Wang, Nanyun Peng
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Knowledge Mechanisms in Large Language Models: A Survey and Perspective
Mengru Wang, Yunzhi Yao, Shuofei Qiao, Shumin Deng, Jia-Chen Gu, Fei Huang, Huajun Chen, Ningyu Zhang
- KnowFM @ ACL 2025
- Readers: Everyone

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Co-Authors

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