Yanxi Zhang

Yanxi Zhang

Peking University

šŸ˜Ž Hi! Iā€™m Yanxi Zhang (张雁ē†™). My english name is Michael, which I have been using it for over ten years!

šŸŒ± I am a final-year M.S. student at Wangxuan Institute for Computer Technology, Peking University, advised by Prof. Dongyan Zhao. I am also a research intern at Shanghai AI Laboratory, advised by Dr. Chaochao Lu. Before that, I received the B.Eng. degree from School of Big Data and Software Engineering, Chongqing University in 2023.

šŸƒ I am currently focusing on causal reasoning in large models, especially in enhancing and evaluating their causal reasoning capabilities. I am also interested in information extraction, e.g., understanding the relationships between events in documents.

āœ‰ļø Feel free to contact me via email! You can download my CV here.

šŸ“ Research Papers

  • HVCR: Causal Evaluation of Large Multimodal Models in Human-like Video Reasoning
    Yanxi Zhang, Junjie Li, Dongyan Zhao*, Chaochao Lu*
    Preprint

  • AC-Reason: Synergizing LLMs and Theory for Human-like Causal Reasoning
    Yanxi Zhang, Xin Cong, Zhong Zhang*, Xiao Liu, Dongyan Zhao*
    Preprint [Paper] [Code] [Data]

  • From Simple to Complex: A Progressive Framework for Document-level Informative Argument Extraction
    Quzhe Huang^, Yanxi Zhang^, Dongyan Zhao*
    EMNLP 2023 Findings [Paper] [Code]

^ Equal Contribution * Corresponding Author

šŸ“š Academic Services

  • Reviewer, IJCAI 2025, NeurIPS 2025.

šŸ“ Teaching Experiences

  • Teaching Assistant, Semantic Computing and Knowledge Graphs, Peking University, Spring 2025.
  • Teaching Assistant, Computer Networks, Chongqing University, Spring 2022.

šŸ“– Educations

  • 2023.09 - 2026.06, M.S. in Data Science, Peking University (PKU).
  • 2019.09 - 2023.06, B.Eng. in Data Science and Big Data Technology, Chongqing University (CQU).

šŸŽ– Honors and Awards

  • Award for Scientific Research, PKU, 2024.
  • Grace Scholarship, CQU, 2023 (Only 10 places in CQU).
  • Outstanding Student, CQU, 2023 (Top 5% in CQU).
  • Mengjia Scholarship, CQU, 2021 (Top 2% in the School of Big Data and Software Engineering, CQU).

šŸ’» Internships

  • 2025.04 - 2026.04, Shanghai AI Laboratory, advised by Dr. Chaochao Lu.