Yue Huang黄跃/hwɑːŋ jwɛ/
PhD student, University of Notre Dame
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About
I am a third-year PhD student at the University of Notre Dame, advised by Prof. Xiangliang Zhang in the MINE Lab.
Previously at Microsoft Research, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, IBM Research, and Tsinghua KEG.
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I build self-improvement humane and humanized intelligence: foundation models and agentic systems aligned with human values, informed by human cognition, and supported by reliable infrastructure.
I study how to align foundation models and agentic systems with human values, from individual behavior to collective dynamics. My work uncovers emergent social intelligence risks that agent-level safeguards alone cannot prevent (Emergent Social Intelligence RisksNature Machine Intelligence). I also benchmark trustworthiness (TrustLLMICML'24, TrustGenICLR'26), train honest and helpful models (HonestLLMNeurIPS'24), examine biases in LLM-as-a-judge (Justice or Prejudice?ICLR'25), and prioritize safety in alignment (SPAAAAI'26 Oral, Capability-Oriented RiskICML'26).
I probe how models reason and perceive, deciding when to use tools (MetaToolICLR'24), adapting reasoning style to the task (AdaReasonerNeurIPS'25 Spotlight), exposing flaws in social character simulation (TrustSimCOLM'25), diagnosing failure modes at scale (ProbeLLMICML'26), ranking models by question difficulty (RankLLMICLR'26), and probing visual aesthetic judgment (VABCOLM'26). I also explore emotionally-adaptive generative AI (EmoNestNeurIPS'25 Creative, NARRA-GymNeurIPS'26, OmeluneMac app).
I build the toolchain that makes the above possible: frameworks for unified synthetic data (DataGenICLR'25, ChemOrchNeurIPS'25), synthetic interaction data for scalable personalization (PersonaGymKDD'26), foundational guardrails for safer agentic systems (SafironICLR'26), a new guardian model paradigm (Guardian-as-an-AdvisorACL'26 Findings), agent infrastructure that turns compute into verifiable improvement and has broken 120 world records in mathematics (ÉpiBake AI), and infrastructure for recursive self-improvement (RSI ArenaLive at COLM'26).