• [04/2026] Six papers (4 Main and 2 Findings) are accepted to ACL 2026.
• [01/2026] We release AgentCPM-Explore and AgentCPM-Report. [repo]
• [01/2026] Two papers are accepted to ICLR 2026.
• [01/2026] One papers are accepted to WWW 2026.
• [09/2025] Four papers are accepted to NeurIPS 2025.
• [08/2025] One papers are accepted to EMNLP 2025.
• [05/2025] We release AgentCPM-GUI. [repo]

For a complete list of papers, please see my Google Scholar profile.

LLM-based Agents

• ToolLLM: Facilitating Large Language Models to Master 16000+ Real-world APIs
  Yujia Qin, Shihao Liang, Yining Ye, Kunlun Zhu, Lan Yan, Yaxi Lu, Yankai Lin, et al.
  The 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024
  Spotlight, Google Scholar Citations: 1,332; Paper Digest Most Influential ICLR 2024 Paper
• GUICourse: From General Vision Language Model to Versatile GUI Agent
  Wentong Chen, Junbo Cui, Jinyi Hu, Yujia Qin, Junjie Fang, Yue Zhao, Chongyi Wang, Jun Liu, Guirong Chen, Yupeng Huo, Yuan Yao, Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
  The 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2025
• Tool Learning with Foundation Models
  Yujia Qin, Shengding Hu, Yankai Lin, et al.
  ACM Computing Surveys
• AgentCPM-GUI: Building Mobile-use Agents with Reinforcement Fine-tuning
  Zhong Zhang, Yaxi Lu, Yikun Fu, Yupeng Huo, Shenzhi Yang, Yesai Wu, Han Si, Xin Cong, Haotian Chen, Yankai Lin, et al.
  Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: System Demonstrations (EMNLP), 2025

Large Language Models

• NumNet: Machine Reading Comprehension with Numerical Reasoning
  Qiu Ran*, Yankai Lin*, Peng Li, Jie Zhou
  The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2019
  Cited by OpenAI's GPT-3
• Towards Thinking-Optimal Scaling of Test-Time Compute for LLM Reasoning
  Wenkai Yang, Shuming Ma, Yankai Lin, Furu Wei
  The 39th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025
• Super (ficial)-alignment: Strong Models May Deceive Weak Models in Weak-to-Strong Generalization
  Wenkai Yang, Shiqi Shen, Guangyao Shen, Wei Yao, Yong Liu, Zhi Gong, Yankai Lin, Ji-Rong Wen
  The 12th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025
  
• Controllable Preference Optimization: Toward Controllable Multi-objective Alignment
  Yiju Guo, Ganqu Cui, Lifan Yuan, Ning Ding, Zexu Sun, Bowen Sun, Huimin Chen, Ruobing Xie, Jie Zhou, Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
  The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024
  

Previously, I worked on Knowledge-guided NLP

• Learning Entity and Relation Embeddings for Knowledge Graph Completion
  Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun, Yang Liu, Xuan Zhu
  The 29th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2015
  Google Scholar Citations: 5,322; Ranked 1st in Paper Digest Most Influential AAAI 2015 Papers
• Neural Relation Extraction with Selective Attention over Instances
  Yankai Lin, Shiqi Shen, Zhiyuan Liu, Maosong Sun
  The 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2016
  Google Scholar Citations: 1,316; Paper Digest Most Influential ACL 2016 Paper
• Modeling Relation Paths for Representation Learning of Knowledge Bases
  Yankai Lin, Zhiyuan Liu, Huanbo Luan, Maosong Sun, Siwei Rao, Song Liu
  The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2015
  Google Scholar Citations: 864

• [2020] First Prize of Natural Science Award, Ministry of Education of China (Rank: 3/5).
• [2020 - 2025] Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researcher for 6 consecutive years.
• [2020 - 2025] Stanford University Top 2% Scientists for 6 consecutive years.
• [2024] Wu Wenjun Artificial Intelligence Excellent Youth Award.
• [2025] "AI 100 Youth Pioneer (By MIT Technology Review, China)".
• [2025] BAAI Scholar.
• [2024] Beijing Nova Program.
• [2022] World Internet Leading Scientific and Technological Achievement (Rank: 3/6).

• Sep, 2024 - Now Associate Professor (Tenure Track), Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China.
• Aug, 2022 - Aug, 2024 Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Gaoling School of Artificial Intelligence, Renmin University of China.
• Jul, 2019 - Aug, 2024 Senior Researcher, Wechat, Tencent Inc.
• Sep, 2014 - Jul, 2019 Ph.D, Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
• Sep, 2010 - Jul, 2014 B.S., Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Beijing.