Yan Meng | PhD Student in NLP at the University of Amsterdam.

Research Internship at WeCo on Self-Improving AI.

I study multilingual knowledge transfer, reasoning, and translation for language models.

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Email: y.meng@uva.nl

Selected Publication

• Control the Temperature: Selective Sampling for Diverse and High-Quality LLM Outputs (COLM 2025)

• How to Learn in a Noisy World? Self-Correcting the Real-World Data Noise on Machine Translation (NAACL 2025)

• Disentangling the Roles of Target-side Transfer and Regularization in Multilingual Machine Translation. (EACL 2024)    

• FollowupQG: Towards Information-Seeking Followup Question Generation. (AACL 2023)

Blog

• How Does Decoding Affect Reasoning in LLMs?