Yunzhen He何 昀臻 · カ ユンチェン

Kyoto, Japan · updated Apr 2026

Ph.D. student at Kyoto University, Graduate School of Informatics, advised by Hidetoshi Shimodaira. I work on large language models — hallucination, decoding, post-training, and alignment.

About

I'm a first-year Ph.D. student in the Data Science Course at Kyoto University, supported by the DoGS Fellowship (2025–2028). Before that I completed my Master's in the same group, and my Bachelor's at Chuo University in Tokyo.

I've also spent time as an LLM R&D intern at Spiral AI and on Rakuten's AI Architecture team. My research has been recognized with a Sponsor Award at ANLP 2024.

Research interests

✦LLM hallucinations Generation & decoding Diffusion LLMs Post-training Alignment Agentic RL Benchmarks

Publications 3 papers

2025

DeLTa: A Decoding Strategy based on Logit Trajectory Prediction Improves Factuality and Reasoning Ability

Yunzhen He, Yusuke Takase, Yoichi Ishibashi, Hidetoshi Shimodaira

Second Workshop on Uncertainty-Aware NLP, EMNLP 2025

2024

Shimo Lab at "Discharge Me!": Discharge Summarization by Prompt-Driven Concatenation of Electronic Health Record Sections

Yunzhen He, Hiroaki Yamagiwa, Hidetoshi Shimodaira

23rd Workshop on Biomedical NLP, ACL 2024

2024

大規模言語モデルにおける幻覚緩和のための単語確率の外挿 — Mitigating hallucinations in LLMs via extrapolation of token probabilities

Yunzhen He, Yusuke Takase, Yoichi Ishibashi, Hidetoshi Shimodaira

Association for Natural Language Processing (ANLP) 2024Sponsor Award

Education

2025 — present

Ph.D., Informatics (Data Science)

Kyoto University · Graduate School of Informatics

Advisor: Hidetoshi Shimodaira. Expected completion 2028. Supported by the DoGS Fellowship.

2023 — 2025

M.S., Informatics (Data Science)

Kyoto University · Graduate School of Informatics

Advisor: Hidetoshi Shimodaira.

2018 — 2022

B.E., Information and System Engineering

Chuo University · Faculty of Science and Engineering

Experience

Apr 2024 — present

Research Assistant

Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University

Nov 2024 — Jan 2025

Part-time, AI Architecture

Rakuten Group · AI & Data Division

AI for Business Department, AI Architecture Section.

Apr 2024 — Aug 2024

Intern, LLM Deep Learning Engineer

Spiral AI · R&D

Awards & honors

2025 — 2028

DoGS Fellow

Division of Graduate Studies, Kyoto University

Research stipend ¥250,000/month + ¥900,000/year research grant.

2024

Sponsor Award

Association for Natural Language Processing (ANLP) 2024