--- title: "Yunghwei Lai — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yunghwei Lai: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yunghwei-lai/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yunghwei-lai/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yunghwei Lai # Yunghwei Lai Yunghwei Lai has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Ante Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ante-wang/), [Bosi Wen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bosi-wen/), [Jinfeng Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinfeng-zhou/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5111136101) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5111136101) · [3 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5111136101) · [14 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5111136101&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yunghwei-lai/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 54 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yunghwei-lai/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7437](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/75/#star-7437) 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=Yunghwei+Lai) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yunghwei+Lai) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yunghwei+Lai) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yunghwei+Lai) ## Affiliations [🎓**Beijing Institute of Technology** Beijing · China 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-institute-of-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 9 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/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [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/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yunghwei-lai/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yunghwei-lai/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ToMBench: Benchmarking Theory of Mind in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2024-tombench-benchmarking-theory-mind-large/)** *(2024 · 62 citations)* Whether large language models possess a theory of mind (ToM) is disputed. Earlier tests gave conflicting results, covered only narrow aspects such as beliefs or emotions, relied on costly manual scoring of open answers, and often reused classic psychology materials that LLMs may have seen during training. ToMBench… 2. **[Beyond “I Don't Know”: Evaluating LLM Self-Awareness in Discriminating Data and Model Uncertainty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ren-2026-beyond-i-don-t-know/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* Most work on LLM abstention treats every refusal the same way. This paper argues that a reliable model also needs to know why it is unsure. It separates two sources of uncertainty. Data uncertainty means the question is ambiguous or missing information, which calls for asking the user to clarify. Model uncertainty… ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ante Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ante-wang/) - [Bosi Wen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bosi-wen/) - [Jinfeng Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinfeng-zhou/) - [Linlu Gong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linlu-gong/) - [Minlie Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minlie-huang/) - [Weizhi Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weizhi-ma/) - [Xiaolong Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaolong-wang/) - [Yang Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-liu/) - [Zexuan Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zexuan-xiong/) - [Zhuang Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhuang-chen/) ## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/), [ACL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 54 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [13 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yunghwei-lai/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026