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I am a PhD student at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), affiliated with the Intelligent Media Computing and Cybersecurity Laboratory (智能媒体计算与网络安全实验室). My research is supervised by Junqing Yu and Zikai Song.
My research focuses on computational social science, neuro-symbolic reasoning, and social network analysis.
I received my bachelor's degree from the School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in June 2024, under the supervision of Bin Yuan.
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Selected Publications (†:equal contribution)
View All →Semantic-Aware Logical Reasoning via a Semiotic Framework
Yunyao Zhang, Xinglang Zhang, Junxi Sheng, Wenbing Li, Junqing Yu, Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Wei Yang, Zikai Song
ACL 2026 Main Conference (Oral)
Logical Phase Transitions: Understanding Collapse in LLM Logical Reasoning
Xinglang Zhang†, Yunyao Zhang†, ZeLiang Chen, Junqing Yu, Wei Yang, Zikai Song
ACL 2026 Main Conference
Coupling Macro Dynamics and Micro States for Long-Horizon Social Simulation
Yunyao Zhang, Yihao Ai, Zuocheng Ying, Qirui Mi, Junqing Yu, Wei Yang, Zikai Song
Preprint
IntervenSim: Intervention-Aware Social Network Simulation for Opinion Dynamics
Yunyao Zhang, Zuocheng Ying, Xinglang Zhang, Junqing Yu, Peng Fang, Xu Chen, Wei Yang, Zikai Song
Preprint
$GA-S^3$: Comprehensive Social Network Simulation with Group Agents
Yunyao Zhang, Zikai Song, Hang Zhou, Wenfeng Ren, Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen, Junqing Yu, Wei Yang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2025
ACL 2025 Findings