Yiming Yang

 

Professor of Language Technologies Institute and Machine Learning Department

School of Computer Science of Carnegie Mellon University

Curriculum Vitae

Addresses

Yiming Yang
GHC 5703, LTI
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-8213

Email: yiming AT cs DOT cmu DOT edu

Recent Research

·        LIKELIHOOD-BASED GENERATIVE REASONING: Latent reasoning as probabilistic inference, unifying diffusion/flow models and likelihood-based preference optimization for principled alignment

 

·        AGENTIC LLMs, RETRIEVAL & EVALUATION: Community-driven agents, generative retrieval, tool-use RL, scalable test-time reasoning, and rigorous benchmarking

 

·        GENERATIVE AI FOR SCIENCE & OPTIMIZATION: Unsupervised generative methods for combinatorial optimization, MILP, PDE solvers, inverse design, and scientific discovery.

Publications (list)

Teaching

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Machine Learning with Graphs (Fall 2025 Syllabus)

Last updated: Feb 14, 2026