--- title: "Kevin Yang — author profile and papers · Text generation" description: "Kevin Yang: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2023), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-yang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-yang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kevin Yang # Kevin Yang Kevin Yang has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2023, most of them on [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/); often with [Dan Klein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-klein/), [Nanyun Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nanyun-peng/), [Yuandong Tian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuandong-tian/). 2 papers in our library · 2021–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101814676) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7221-6642) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101814676) · [36 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101814676) · [5,667 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101814676&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-yang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 238 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-yang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4111](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/42/#star-4111) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Kevin+Yang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kevin+Yang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kevin+Yang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kevin+Yang) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2020–2025 · 36 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2018–2022 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Cambridge · United States 2019–2020 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Text generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper Kevin Yang's papers of 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2023-doc-improving-long-story-coherence/) · [**2021** 1 paper Kevin Yang's papers of 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2021-fudge-controlled-text-generation-future/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[FUDGE: Controlled Text Generation With Future Discriminators](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2021-fudge-controlled-text-generation-future/)** *(2021 · 235 citations)* FUDGE (Future Discriminators for Generation) addresses controlled text generation: steering an existing generator G toward a desired attribute, such as formality, without retraining G and without disturbing its underlying distribution. 2. **[DOC: Improving Long Story Coherence With Detailed Outline Control](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2023-doc-improving-long-story-coherence/)** *(2023 · 82 citations)* Automatically generated stories that run to several thousand words often read smoothly at the passage level but lose the overall plot, drifting away from the intended plan. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dan Klein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-klein/) ×2 - [Nanyun Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nanyun-peng/) - [Yuandong Tian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuandong-tian/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2023/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2021/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 238 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [20 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-yang/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026