Yiren Jian

I am a researcher at OpenAI. I earned my PhD in Computer Science from Dartmouth College in 2024 under the mentorship of Soroush Vosoughi.

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Research

For a full list of my publications, please refer to my Google Scholar profile.

Pretrained Image-Text Models are Secretly Video Captioners
Chunhui Zhang, Yiren Jian, Zhongyu Ouyang, Soroush Vosoughi
Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL), 2025   (Oral Presentation)
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Working Memory Identifies Reasoning Limits in Language Models
Chunhui Zhang, Yiren Jian, Zhongyu Ouyang, Soroush Vosoughi
The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024
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InfiMM-WebMath-40B: Advancing Multimodal Pre-Training for Enhanced Mathematical Reasoning
Xiaotian Han#, Yiren Jian#, Xuefeng Hu#, Haogeng Liu#, Yiqi Wang#, Qihang Fan, Yuang Ai, Huaibo Huang, Ran He, Zhenheng Yang, Quanzeng You
preprint, 2024
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InfiMM: Advancing Multimodal Understanding with an Open-Sourced Visual Language Model
Haogeng Liu, Quanzeng You, Yiqi Wang, Xiaotian Han, Bohan Zhai, Yongfei Liu, Wentao Chen, Yiren Jian, Yunzhe Tao, Jianbo Yuan, Ran He, Hongxia Yang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Findings of ACL), 2024
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Expedited Training of Visual Conditioned Language Generation via Redundancy Reduction
Yiren Jian, Tingkai Liu, Yunzhe Tao, Chunhui Zhang, Soroush Vosoughi, Hongxia Yang
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2024   (Oral Presentation)
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GEM: Generating Engaging Multimodal Content
Chongyang Gao, Yiren Jian, Natalia Denisenko, Soroush Vosoughi, V.S. Subrahmanian
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), 2024
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Bootstrapping Vision-Language Learning with Decoupled Language Pre-training
Yiren Jian, Chongyang Gao, Soroush Vosoughi
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2023   (Spotlight)
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Non-Linguistic Supervision for Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings
Yiren Jian, Chongyang Gao, Soroush Vosoughi
Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2022
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T-Cell Receptor-Peptide Interaction Prediction with Physical Model Augmented Pseudo-Labeling
Yiren Jian, Erik Kruus, Martin Renqiang Min
ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD), 2022   (Oral Presentation)
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Embedding Hallucination for Few-shot Language Fine-tuning
Yiren Jian, Chongyang Gao, Soroush Vosoughi
Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL), 2022
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Contrastive Learning for Prompt-based Few-shot Language Learners
Yiren Jian, Chongyang Gao, Soroush Vosoughi
Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (NAACL), 2022
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Label Hallucination for Few-shot Classification
Yiren Jian, Lorenzo Torresani
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2022
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Teaching
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Deep Learning, CS78/278, Winter 2021
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Deep Learning, CS78/178, Winter 2019
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Machine Learning, CS74/274, 2023
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Machine Learning, CS74/274, 2022
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Machine Learning, CS74/274, 2021
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Machine Learning, CS74/174, 2018
Work Experience

TikTok and ByteDance
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025

Reserch Scientist

ByteDance
June 2023 - Sept 2023

Research Intern
Advisor: Yunzhe Tao and Tingkai Liu

Snap Research
June 2022 - Sept 2022

Research Intern
Advisor: Panos Achlioptas

NEC Labs America
June 2021 - Sept 2021

Research Intern
Advisor: Martin Renqiang Min

Education

Dartmouth College
Sep 2018 - Feb 2024

PhD in Computer Science
Advisor: Soroush Vosoughi and Lorenzo Torresani (2018 - 2021)

The George Washington University
Sep 2015 - May 2017

MS in Physics
Advisor: Chen Zeng

Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Sep 2011 - June 2015

BS in Physics


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