Xiaoyuan Yi

Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research Asia.

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xiaoyuanyi [at] microsoft (dot) com

Microsoft Campus T2, 5 Danling Street

Beijing, China

Dr. Xiaoyuan Yi is a senior researcher at Microsoft Research Asia. He received both his B.S. and Ph.D. from the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, advised by Prof. Maosong Sun. His research interest lies in Societal AI, Responsible AI and Natural Language Generation (NLG), aiming to improve AI through interdisciplinary perspectives and ultimately improve human well-being. He published over 50 papers at top-tier venues such as ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, AAAI, IJCAI, etc. He received best paper awards at several conferences, e.g., Chinese Conference on Computational Linguistics and International Conference on Advanced Data Mining and Applicantions, and other honors such as Xinhua Net The 10 Most Influential People on the Internet, Rising Star Award of IJCAI Young Elite Symposium, Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award by China Computer Federation (CCF),and Rising Stars in Social Computing by The Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI).

News

Feb 07, 2026 Our AdAEM paper was selected as an oral paper at ICLR 2026! 👏🏻
Dec 13, 2025 Our ValueLex paper received the best paper award International Conference on Social Computing! 👏🏻

Selected Publications

  1. ICLR
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    AdAEM: An Adaptively and Automated Extensible Measurement of LLMs’ Value Difference
    Jing Yao*, Shitong Duan*, Xiaoyuan Yi†, Peng Zhang, Dongkuan Xu, Tun Lu, Ning Gu, and Xing Xie
    In The Fourteenth International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2026
    Oral PDF
  2. ACL
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    Value Compass Benchmarks: A Comprehensive, Generative and Self-Evolving Platform for LLMs’ Value Evaluation
    Jing Yao, Xiaoyuan Yi†, Shitong Duan, Jindong Wang, Yuzhuo Bai, Muhua Huang, Yang Ou, Scarlett Li, Peng Zhang, Tun Lu, and 4 more authors
    In Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL: System Demonstrations), 2025
    PDF Website
  3. EMNLP
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    ToViLaG: Your Visual-Language Generative Model is Also An Evildoer
    Xinpeng Wang, Xiaoyuan Yi†, Han Jiang, Shanlin Zhou, Zhihua Wei†, and Xing Xie
    In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2023
    Oral PDF
  4. ACL
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    Jiuge: A Human-Machine Collaborative Chinese Classical Poetry Generation System
    Zhipeng Guo*, Xiaoyuan Yi*, Maosong Sun, Wenhao Li, Cheng Yang, Jiannan Liang, Huimin Chen, Yuhui Zhang, and Ruoyu Li
    In Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL): System Demonstrations, 2019
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