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Yahan Yu

I'm currently a third-year Ph.D. student at Language Media Processing Lab at Kyoto University, Japan, supervised by Prof. Chenhui Chu.

Before that, I received M.S. from Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA).

My research interests lie in:
1. Multimodal Large Language models

Low-rank Adaptation
Downstream Application

2. Continual Learning

Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning
Continual Named Entity Recognition

3. LLM Reasoning

Mathematical Reasoning
Reinforcement Learning based Reasoning Mechanisms

📣 I am looking for job and postdoc opportunities for these directions.

👏 Welcome all forms of academic discussion and collaboration.

Email📧: jasmineyuyh (at) gmail (dot) com / Google Scholar / Github / LinkedIn

Education🎓

Ph.D. @ Kyoto University, 2023.10-2026.09 (expected)
Advisor: Prof. Chenhui Chu
M.S. @ Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2020.09-2023.06

News💬

[2025.06] One paper is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP).
[2025.05] Four papers are accepted to ACL 2025. Congratulations to all my collaborators!
[2025.03] One paper is accepted to IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP).
[2024.05] Two papers are accepted to ACL 2024.

Research Experience💼

Research Intern @ NEC Corporation, Japan, 2025.02-2025.05
Advisor: Dr. Yuyang Dong and Dr. Masafumi Oyamada
Research Intern @ Baidu, Inc., China, 2022.12-2023.06
Advisor: Dr. Xiuyi Chen
Research Intern @ Tencent, China, 2021.12-2022.12
Advisor: Bojie Hu

Selected Publications📄 [View All]

* indicates equal contribution

	Progressive LoRA for Multimodal Continual Instruction Tuning Yahan Yu, Duzhen Zhang, Yong Ren, Xuanle Zhao, Xiuyi Chen, Chenhui Chu Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025 Paper / Code
	Semantic-Retention Attack for Continual Named Entity Recognition Yahan Yu, Zhengdong Yang, Fei Cheng, Chenhui Chu IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP), 2025 Paper / Code
	Federated Incremental Named Entity Recognition Duzhen Zhang, Yahan Yu, Chenxing Li, Jiahua Dong, Dong Yu IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP), 2025 Paper / Code
	Flexible Weight Tuning and Weight Fusion Strategies for Continual Named Entity Recognition Yahan Yu, Duzhen Zhang, Xiuyi Chen, Chenhui Chu Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 Paper / Code
	MM-LLMs: Recent Advances in Multimodal Large Language Models Duzhen Zhang, Yahan Yu, Chenxing Li, Jiahua Dong, Dan Su, Chenhui Chu, Dong Yu Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 Paper / Website
	Decomposing Logits Distillation for Incremental Named Entity Recognition Duzhen Zhang, Yahan Yu, Feilong Chen, Xiuyi Chen Proceedings of the 46th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR), 2023 Paper
	GHAN: Graph-based Hierarchical Aggregation Network for Text-Video Retrieval Yahan Yu, Bojie Hu, Yu Li Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2022 Paper
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Academic Services📖

Conference Reviewer: ACL, EMNLP, NAACL

Journal Reviewer: TASLP

Award🏆

DoGS Fellow: Selected by Kyoto University DoGS NEXT AI Program, 2024.04 - 2026.09.