Yusen Zhang

Postdoc, Computer Science, Columbia University

Joined

December 2019

Names

Yusen Zhang (Preferred)

Emails

****@psu.edu (Confirmed)

****@columbia.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Postdoc

Computer Science, Columbia University (columbia.edu)

2025 – 2026

PhD student

Computer Science and Engineering, Pennsylvania State University (psu.edu)

2021 – 2025

MS student

Emory University (emory.edu)

2019 – 2021

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

PhD Advisor

Rui Zhang

2021 – 2026

Expertise

Natural Language Generation

2021 – Present

Natural Language Processing

2019 – Present

Publications

Evolving Safety Landscape of Multi-modal Large Language Models: A Survey of Emerging Threats and Safeguards
Xi Li, Shu Zhao, Xiaohan Zou, Fei Zhao, Fuxiao Liu, Yusen Zhang, Cheng Han, Yushun Dong, Jiaqi Wang
- ICLR 2026 Trustworthy AI
- Readers: Everyone
Efficient PRM Training Data Synthesis via Formal Verification
Ryo Kamoi, Yusen Zhang, Nan Zhang, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Ranran Haoran Zhang, Wenpeng Yin, Rui Zhang
- ACL 2026 Findings
- Readers: Everyone
When Reasoning Meets Compression: Understanding the Effects of LLMs Compression on Large Reasoning Models
Nan Zhang, Eugene Kwek, Yusen Zhang, Ngoc-Hieu Nguyen, Prasenjit Mitra, Rui Zhang
- ICLR 2026 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Generalizable Process Reward Models via Formally Verified Training Data
Ryo Kamoi, Yusen Zhang, Nan Zhang, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Rui Zhang
- ICLR 2026 Conference Withdrawn Submission
- Readers: Everyone
VisOnlyQA: Large Vision Language Models Still Struggle with Visual Perception of Geometric Information
Ryo Kamoi, Yusen Zhang, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Ranran Haoran Zhang, Rui Zhang
- COLM 2025
- Readers: Everyone
When Can LLMs Actually Correct Their Own Mistakes? A Critical Survey of Self-Correction of LLMs
Ryo Kamoi, Yusen Zhang, Nan Zhang, Jiawei Han, Rui Zhang
- Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (2024) 12: 1417–1440.
- Readers: Everyone
AAAR-1.0: Assessing AI’s Potential to Assist Research
Renze Lou, Hanzi Xu, Sijia Wang, Jiangshu Du, Ryo Kamoi, Xiaoxin Lu, Jian Xie, Yuxuan Sun, Yusen Zhang, Jihyun Janice Ahn, Hongchao Fang, Zhuoyang Zou, Wenchao Ma, Xi Li, Kai Zhang, Congying Xia, Lifu Huang, Wenpeng Yin
- ICML 2025 poster
- Readers: Everyone
AAAR-1.0: Assessing AI's Potential to Assist Research
Renze Lou, Hanzi Xu, Sijia Wang, Jiangshu Du, Ryo Kamoi, Xiaoxin Lu, Jian Xie, Yuxuan Sun, Yusen Zhang, Jihyun Janice Ahn, Hongchao Fang, Zhuoyang Zou, Wenchao Ma, Xi Li, Kai Zhang, Congying Xia, Lifu Huang, Wenpeng Yin
- AI4Research @ AAAI 2025 Oral
- Readers: Everyone
GReaTer: Gradients Over Reasoning Makes Smaller Language Models Strong Prompt Optimizers
Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Ryo Kamoi, Bo Pang, Yusen Zhang, Caiming Xiong, Rui Zhang
- ICLR 2025 Poster
- Readers: Everyone
Verbosity $\neq$ Veracity: Demystify Verbosity Compensation Behavior of Large Language Models
Yusen Zhang, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Rui Zhang
- Submitted to ICLR 2025
- Readers: Everyone

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