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Yuda Song

@yus167

On the academia faculty job market.
PhD @mldcmu. Previously @ucsd_cse @UcsdMathDept
yudasong.github.io Joined April 2020
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Yuda Song @yus167
Foundation models are trained in stages: pretraining, midtraining, and post-training. But is this separation fundamental?
We introduce unified training: a single algorithm for the full pipeline. This gives
鈿欙笍 Simpler infrastructure
馃敩 A framework for better science
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Yuda Song @yus167
More evidence doesn't necessarily give better answers! Really cool work showing how retrieval can mislead LLMs and how to be more robust.
Jennifer Hsia @jen_hsia Oct 25
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When LLMs answer questions with retrieved webpages, several plausible answers may appear.

What if one appears much more often and fits much of what the question asks, but still isn't the right answer?

Excited to share our #EMNLP2026 paper on this!

馃搫arxiv.org/abs/2610.27114
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Yuda Song @yus167
It's easy to teach the model how to succeed when it has the knowledge for a task -- but how do we teach the model *how to fail* when it lacks the capability? 馃

Why does it matter? If we don't teach the model how to fail, it then takes risky actions or hallucinates. 鈿狅笍 (1/n)
Daman Arora Verified account @amuseddaman Oct 16
1/ RL for improving task success has made LLMs remarkably capable. But what happens when the model fails? Turns out, training for graceful failure can be surprisingly tricky!

Very excited to share our new paper: Training Language Models to Fail Gracefully

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