Xuyuan Liu

Xuyuan Liu

I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at Dartmouth College, advised by Prof. Yujun Yan.
Previously, I obtained my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Nankai University, where I worked on knowledge-grounded NLP systems with Prof. Zhenglu Yang.

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Research

My research focuses on the science of Language Models, particularly on understanding their behavior during both training and inference through methods that probe their internal mechanisms. I aim to understand how LLMs work internally and leverage that understanding to develop technical methods that enhance their performance.

News

  • 12/2025, We will present our work at Unireps@NeurIPS 2025!

  • 11/2025, Check out our paper on customizing LLM memory by controlling their hidden states.

  • 11/2025, Pass my comprehensive exam!

  • 06/2025, Start my internship NEC Laboratories America at Princeton, NJ

  • 05/2025, One paper accepted by Findings of ACL 2025

  • 09/2024, One paper accepted by NeurIPS 2024

  • 09/2023, Start my Ph.D. journey at the Dartmouth!
  • Publications

    1. Representation Interventions Enable Lifelong Unstructured Knowledge Control
      Xuyuan Liu, Zhengzhang Chen, Xinshuai Dong, Yanchi Liu, Xujiang Zhao, Shengyu Chen, Haoyu Wang, Yujun Yan, Haifeng Chen
      Preprint  

    2. Spectral Insights into Data-Oblivious Critical Layers in Large Language Models
      Xuyuan Liu, Lei Hsiung, Yaoqing Yang, Yujun Yan
      Findings of ACL2025   also in Unireps@NeurIPS2025
      Paper     Project Page

    3. Exploring Consistency in Graph Representations: from Graph Kernels to Graph Neural Networks
      Xuyuan Liu, Yinghao Cai, Qihui Yang, Yujun Yan
      NeurIPS 2024  
      Paper    Poster

    4. TreeMAN: Tree-enhanced Multimodal Attention Network for ICD Coding
      Zichen Liu, Xuyuan Liu, Yanlong Wen, Guoqing Zhao, Fen Xia, Xiaojie Yuan
      COLING 2022   (ORAL)
      Paper

    Honors

      2023, Dartmouth Fellowship

      2022, Academic Excellence Scholarship

      2022, Scientific Research Innovation Scholarship

    Services

  • Conference Reviewer: NeurIPS 2024,2025, ICLR2025, ICML 2025



  • Latest Update: 12/1/2025


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