Selected Publications
For a full list of my publications, please visit my Google Scholar page.- Preprints
- Kailai Yang, Yan Leng, Xin Zhang, Tianlin Zhang, Paul Thompson, Bernard Keavney, Maciej Tomaszewski, Sophia Ananiadou. "Natural Language Processing Applications in Cardiology: A Narrative Review". Download paper
- Yunna Cai, Fan Wang, Haowei Wang, Kun Wang, Kailai Yang (Corresponding Author), Sophia Ananiadou, Moyan Li, Mingming Fan. "Exploring Safety Alignment Evaluation of LLMs in Chinese Mental Health Dialogues via LLM-as-Judge". Download paper
- Hao Li, Yizheng Sun, Viktor Schlegel, Kailai Yang (Corresponding Author), Riza Batista-Navarro, Goran Nenadic. "Arg-LLaDA: Argument Summarization via Large Language Diffusion Models and Sufficiency-Aware Refinement". Download paper
- Zhiwei Liu, Kailai Yang (Corresponding Author), Eduard Hovy, Sophia Ananiadou. "Rumor Detection by Multi-task Suffix Learning based on Time-series Dual Sentiments". Download paper
- Kailai Yang, Xiao Liu, Lei Ji, Hao Li, Yeyun Gong, Peng Cheng, Mao Yang. "Data Mixing Agent: Learning to Re-weight Domains for Continual Pre-training". Download paper
- Conference Papers
- Kailai Yang, Zhiwei Liu, Qianqian Xie, Jimin Huang, Erxue Min, Sophia Ananiadou. "Selective Preference Optimization via Token-Level Reward Function Estimation". In EMNLP 2025 Download paper
- Kailai Yang, Zhiwei Liu, Qianqian Xie, Jimin Huang, Tianlin Zhang, Sophia Ananiadou. "MetaAligner: Towards Generalizable Multi-Objective Alignment of Language Models". In NeurlPS 2024 Download paper
- Kailai Yang, Tianlin Zhang, Ziyan Kuang, Qianqian Xie, Jimin Huang, Sophia Ananiadou. "MentaLLaMA: Interpretable Mental Health Analysis on Social Media with Large Language Models". In WWW 2024 Download paper
- Kailai Yang, Shaoxiong Ji, Tianlin Zhang, Qianqian Xie, Ziyan Kuang, Sophia Ananiadou. "Towards Interpretable Mental Health Analysis with Large Language Models". In EMNLP 2023 Download paper
- Kailai Yang, Tianlin Zhang, Shaoxiong Ji, Sophia Ananiadou. "A Bipartite Graph is All We Need for Enhancing Emotional Reasoning with Commonsense Knowledge". In CIKM 2023. Download paper
- Journal Papers
- Kailai Yang, Tianlin Zhang, Sophia Ananiadou. "Disentangled Variational Autoencoder for Emotion Recognition in Conversations". In IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2023 (IF: 13.99) Download paper
- Kailai Yang, Tianlin Zhang, Hassan Alhuzali, Sophia Ananiadou. "Cluster-Level Contrastive Learning for Emotion Recognition in Conversations". In IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2023 (IF: 13.99) Download paper
- Kailai Yang, Tianlin Zhang, Sophia Ananiadou. "A Mental State Knowledge-Aware and Contrastive Network for Early Stress and Depression Detection on Social Media". In Information Processing & Management, 2022 (IF: 8.6). Download paper