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Yapei Chang

PhD Student
University of Maryland
yapeic (at) umd.edu


About Me

Hi! I’m a PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park, advised by Prof. Mohit Iyyer with a research focus on NLP. Prior to transferring to UMD, I was affiliated with the UMass Amherst NLP Lab, where I was also advised by Prof. Iyyer. My current main research interests include:

I like gaming and tinkering with mechanical keyboards in the free time I aggregate from my fluctuating work-life balance (it’s a work in progress ┐(‘~` )┌).

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Selected Publications

For a more up-to-date list of publications, please visit my Google Scholar page.

  1. Preprint
    Yapei Chang, Kyle Lo, Mohit Iyyer, Luca Soldaini
    Preprint, 2026.

  2. Technical Report
    Olmo Team, including Yapei Chang
    Technical Report, 2025.

  3. Preprint
    Zongxia Li, Yapei Chang, Yuhang Zhou, Xiyang Wu, Zichao Liang, Yoo Yeon Sung, Jordan Lee Boyd-Graber
    Preprint, 2025.

  4. NeurIPS
    Yapei Chang, Yekyung Kim, Michael Krumdick, Amir Zadeh, Chuan Li, Chris Tanner, Mohit Iyyer
    Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2025.

  5. COLM
    Chau Minh Pham, Yapei Chang, Mohit Iyyer
    Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), 2025.

  6. EMNLP
    Yapei Chang, Kalpesh Krishna, Amir Houmansadr, John Wieting, Mohit Iyyer
    Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 2024.

  7. COLM
    Yekyung Kim, Yapei Chang, Marzena Karpinska, Aparna Garimella, Varun Manjunatha, Kyle Lo, Tanya Goyal, Mohit Iyyer
    Conference on Language Modeling (COLM), 2024.

  8. ICLR
    Yapei Chang, Kyle Lo, Tanya Goyal, Mohit Iyyer
    International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2024.

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