Siyu Yuan

Siyu Yuan

Ph.D. in Statistics

Fudan University

Biography

Siyu Yuan (员司雨) is a third-year Ph.D. student at Fudan University in the School of Data Science and a member of KW FUDAN Lab. She is devoted to making machines have human-like cognitive abilities and aligning autonomous generative agents with human cognition. Her interested research topics are mostly around cognitive science with generative agents, including (but not limited to)

  • Cognitive Reasoning, especially on exploring the cognitive reasoning abilities of generative agents, including analogical reasoning, theory of mind, and belief exploration of LLMs. The ultimate goal is to enhance the understanding of these agents about themselves and others, thereby enabling them to generate responses that align better with human cognition.
  • Strategic Planning, especially on equipping generative agents with human-level planning capabilities revolving around decision-making, case-based reasoning, and other complex planning tasks.
  • Knowledge Acquisition, especially on excavating knowledge based on generative agents, including concept acquisition, script generation and analogy making. These aim to construct rich knowledge bases that can be effectively utilized.

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Interests
  • Cognitive Science
  • Applications of LLMs
  • Writing Novels
Education
  • Ph.D., Statistics, 2021-2026 (estimated)

    Fudan University

  • B.S., Bachelor of Data Science and big data technology, 2017-2021

    Fudan University

News

  • Oct. 2023:Check out our Auction Arena! We explore how LLMs navigate the complex and dynamic environment of auctions! We introduce AucArena, a novel simulation environment to evaluate the planning and strategic abilities of LLMs. Play with arena demo and see if you can beat AI!
  • Oct. 2023:Our paper SCAR on analogical reasoning got accepted at EMNLP 2023 (Findings)! See you in Singapore.
  • Sept. 2023:Start Student Researcher Internship at Microsoft Research Asia, advised by Dr. Kaitao Song!
  • July 2023:Our paper Coscript got an Outstanding Paper Award in ACL 2023 (top 1%)!
  • July 2023:Gave a talk for Peking University Shenzhen Graduate School Shanghai Alumni Association.
  • May 2023:Check out two pre-prints on Analogical Reasoning. AnalogyKB is a million-scale analogy KB derived from existing KGs, to enable machines to achieve analogical reasoning skills. SCAR is a new challenge for evaluating the structure abduction ability of LLMs for scientific analogies, which is essential for human-like analogical reasoning.
  • May 2023:Two papers accepted to ACL 2023! One is Coscript on constraint language planning, and the other is KPCE on concept extraction through the lens of a Structural Causal Model.
  • Jan. 2023:Start Student Researcher Internship at Bytedance, working with the great AILab!
  • Oct. 2022:Our work Generative Entity Typing with Curriculum Learning got accepted at EMNLP 2022!
  • Sept. 2022:Our work (CISPE) about emotion recognition in conversation has been reported in the ECML PKDD 2022 online!

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Microsoft Research Lab Asia
Research Intern
Microsoft Research Lab Asia
September 2023 – Present Shanghai, China
Mentored by Dr. Kaitao Song and Dr. Kan Ren. Autonomous Agents with Planning and Tool Use.
 
 
 
 
 
ByteDance AI Lab
Research Intern
ByteDance AI Lab
January 2023 – May 2023 Shanghai, China
Mentored by Dr. Jiaze Chen and Dr. Changzhi Sun. Working on LLM Evaluation and Instruction Tuning on LLMs.
 
 
 
 
 
Brain Technologies Inc
Research Intern
Brain Technologies Inc
June 2022 – September 2022 Remote
Mentored by Dr. Charles Jankowski. Working on Symbolic Knowledge Distillation and LLM Prompt Engineering.
 
 
 
 
 
Knowledge Works Lab at Fudan University
Student Researcher
Knowledge Works Lab at Fudan University
July 2019 – Present Shanghai, China
Working on Knowledge Generation and Knowledge Graph.

Awards

ACL 2023 Outstanding Paper Award
Outstanding Graduate Student of Shanghai Colleges and University
Outstanding Student Pacemaker of Fudan University
China National Scholarship

Recent Publications

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(2023). Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is: Evaluating Strategic Planning and Execution of LLM Agents in an Auction Arena. Preprint.

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(2023). Beneath Surface Similarity: Large Language Models Make Reasonable Scientific Analogies after Structure Abduction. In The 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2023)-Findings.

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(2023). Translate Meanings, Not Just Words: IdiomKB's Role in Optimizing Idiomatic Translation with Language Models. Preprint.

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(2023). ANALOGYKB: Unlocking Analogical Reasoning of Language Models with A Million-scale Knowledge Base. Preprint.

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(2023). Causality-aware Concept Extraction based on Knowledge-guided Prompting. In The 61th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL 2023).

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