Dr. Kailai Yang

Dr. Kailai Yang

The University of Manchester.

Selected Publications

For a full list of my publications, please visit my Google Scholar page.
  • Preprints
    • 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
    • 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 Forbes coverage 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
  • PhD Thesis
    • Kailai Yang, Sophia Ananiadou, Junichi Tsujii. "Mental Health Analysis in the Era of Large Language Models". The University of Manchester, 2025. Download paper