Yilin Zhang

I am currently a staff research scientist and tech lead at at Meta - Central Applied Science Team.  I received my Ph.D. in Statistics with minor in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin-Madison, advised by Prof. Karl Rohe.  My research interests include Generative AI Evaluation and Applications and Data-Centric AI.  

Publications

• Yilin Zhang, Frank Kanayet. "GenAI Evaluation Maturity Framework (GEMF) to assess and improve GenAI Evaluations", NeurIPS 2024 EvalEval workshop.

• Llama  Team, AI at Meta. "The Llama 3 Herd of Models"

• Yilin Zhang, Aude Hofleitner, Hannah Furnas, Paul Chung, Wesley Lee, Xu Chen, Ben Fifield.  "Introducing Ground Truth Maturity Framework for assessing and improving ground truth data quality", Meta Research.

• Yilin Zhang, Karl Rohe.  "Understanding Regularized Spectral Clustering via Graph Conductance",  Proceedings of Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2018. [pdf][poster][video]

• Yilin Zhang, Marie Poux-Berthe, Chris Wells, Karolina Koc-Michalska, Karl Rohe. "Discovering Political Topics in Facebook Discussion threads with Graph Contextualization", The Annals of Applied Statistics, 12(2), 1096-1123, 2018. [pdf][R package: pairGraphText][code][shinyapp]

• Hao Henry Zhou, Yilin Zhang, Vamsi K. Ithapu, Sterling C. Johnson, Grace Wahba, Vikas Singh. "When can Multi-Site Datasets be Pooled for Regression? Hypothesis Tests, l2-consistency and Neuroscience Applications", Proceedings of International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2017.[pdf][supp][code][slides]

• Yilin Zhang, Karl Rohe, Sebastien Roch.  "Reducing Seed Bias in Respondent-Driven Sampling by Estimating Block Transition Probabilities", under review at The Annals of Statistics.

• Yilin Zhang.  "Community Detection and Sampling on Networks", Ph.D. Thesis.

• Xing-Jiang Zhu, Linqing Wen, George Hobbs, Yilin Zhang, et al. "Detection and Localization of Single-Source Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing Arrays", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 449:16501663, 2015.

• Yilin Zhang, Qing Li, Charles Franklin, Karl Rohe. "Direct Evidence for Null Volatility in Election Polling". preprint.