Kyoto University
Graham NeubigAssociate Professor · Carnegie Mellon UniversityResearcher↗2 shared research fields
Both at Carnegie Mellon University
Researcher · Academic
Yiming Yang
Carnegie Mellon UniversityProfessor
Yang is a longstanding leader in machine learning for text retrieval and classification. Her work ranges from early statistical methods for finding and organizing documents to XLNet, graph learning, and newer methods that help language models reason and refine their answers.
Career & education
Current roleCarnegie Mellon University2003-presentProfessor
Carnegie Mellon University2003-presentPreviouslyCarnegie Mellon University1996-2003Associate Professor
Carnegie Mellon University1996-2003Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations102,148As of Oct 20, '26
Selected contributions
XLNet: Generalized Autoregressive Pretraining for Language Understanding
XLNet learns language context by predicting words in varied orders.
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