Yale NLP Lab

The Yale NLP Lab is a research group in the Department of Computer Science at Yale University led by Arman Cohan. The research lab started in January 2023 with a broad focus in AI, including language modeling, representation learning, retrieval, and applications in specialized domains. Active areas of research include (no particular order):

  • Understanding and extending generalization capabilities of Large Language Models
  • Evaluation and science of language models
  • Language modeling and representation learning for complex document-level tasks and long sequences
  • Multi-document and extreme multi-document language processing
  • Post-training and evaluation of post-training
  • Applications to scientific text

If you are interested in joining our lab, click here for more information.

News

Sep 2024

  • Thrilled to announce that 7 of our papers have been accepted at EMNLP 2024, including 4 in the main track and 3 as findings! Proud to highlight that several of these papers feature master's and undergraduate students as lead or key co-authors.

Aug 2024

  • Welcome to our new Ph.D. students, Jacob Dunefsky and Alan Li, who have joined the lab!
  • Happy new semester! Excited to welcome back our returning students and meet our new ones!
  • Olmo (Open Language Models) won a best paper award at ACL 2024!
  • We presented 5 papers at ACL main conference!

Jul 2024

  • Congratulations to Jacob Dunefsky for his first paper presentation at ICML in Vienna.
  • Congratulations to Dr. Linyong Nan on his successful PhD thesis defense titled "Generative Question Answering from Heterogeneous Knowledge Sources"! We are thrilled to announce that he will be joining Zoom as a Research Scientist. Wishing him every success in his new role!
  • We're honored that our paper, "Step-Back Profiling - Distilling User History for Personalized Scientific Writing", received the Best Paper Award at AI4Research Workshop at IJCAI 2024!
  • Thrilled to announce that the LC2Eval paper has been accepted at TACL!

Jun 2024

  • Congratulations to Dr. Ansong Ni on his successful defense of his PhD thesis titled "Program Synthesis from Natural Language Using Language Models"! We are thrilled to announce that he will be joining FAIR at Meta as a Research Scientist. Wishing him every success in his new role!

May 2024

  • Thrilled to announce that 8 of our papers have been accepted at ACL 2024, including 5 in the main track and 3 as findings! This also includes 2 papers by undergrads as the first authors!
  • Congratulations, Yixin and Simeng, for passing the prospectus defense!

Apr 2024

  • We were delighted to host Jason Weston from Meta AI and NYU for a talk on "Self-Alignment of Large Language Models."
  • We were delighted to host Luca Soldaini from Allen Institute for AI for a talk on "OLMo - The Quest to build an (O)pen (L)anguage (Mo)del."

Mar 2024

  • Thrilled to announce that 5 of our papers have been accepted at NAACL 2024, including 3 in the main track and 2 as findings!
  • We were delighted to host Akari Asai from UW for a talk on "Retreival-Augmented Language Models."

Jan 2024

  • Congratulations, Lj, for acceptance of his paper in the main EACL 2024 conference!

Dec 2023

  • Yale NLP had a great time attending the EMNLP 2023 Conference in Singapore!

Oct 2023

  • We were delighted to host Xi Ye from UT Austin for a talk on "Logical Reasoning in Language Models."
  • Thrilled to announce that 6 of our papers have been accepted at EMNLP 2023, including 3 in the main track and 3 as findings!

Sep 2023

  • We were delighted to host Denny Zhou from DeepMind for a discussion on reasoning in large language models.

Aug 2023

  • A warm welcome to our new Ph.D. students, Yilun Zhao and Kaili Liu, who have joined our lab!

Jul 2023

  • Yale NLP had a great time attending ACL 2023 in Toronto, Canada.

May 2023