Guanyu Yao | University of California, Santa Barbara

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student at University of California, Santa Barbara, advised by Prof. Shiyu Chang. I received my B.Eng. degree in Artificial Intelligence from Beijing Normal University in 2020. My research interests lie in Multi-Modal LLMs and LLM Evaluation, I am also interested in LLM training and inference platforms.

Research Interests

Multi-Modal LLMs: multimodal pretraining, multimodal model architectures.
LLM Evaluation: evaluation metrics, evaluation datasets, evaluation platforms.

News

[2024-09-01] I joined UCSB as a Ph.D. student, advised by Prof. Shiyu Chang.
[2024-06-30] I graduated from Beijing Normal University with a B.Eng. degree in Artificial Intelligence.
[2023-03-01] I joined HKUST as an undergraduate research intern, advised by Prof. Tong Zhang.

Publications

An Improved Autoregressive Evaluation Paradigm for Large Language Models

Jipeng Zhang, Rui Pan, Yuzheng Hu, KaShun SHUM, ** Guanyu Yao **, Xiang Liu, Renjie Pi, Hanze Dong, Shizhe Diao, Yong Lin, Han Zhao, Tong Zhang

In Submission

Projects

LMFLow Contributor of an open source training/inference platform(Github 8k+ 🌟) for large language models.

Teaching Experience

Teaching Assistant, CS 16: Problem Solving with Computers 1, UCSB, Winter 2025
Grader, CS 190I: Introduction to Deep Learning, UCSB, Fall 2024