Qiyang Yao
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Qiyang Yao

Undergraduate at NYU
About Me

Hi, I'm Qiyang Yao, a first-year undergraduate at New York University majoring in computer science. I'm currently interested in AI alignment.

Education
  • New York University
    New York University
    College of Arts & Science
    Undergraduate in Computer Science
    Sep. 2026 - Present
  • Hangzhou Foreign Languages School
    High School Diploma
    2022 - 2025
Updates
2026
My paper More Is Not More: What Matters for Diversity in LLM Opinions? was accepted to the NeurIPS 2026 E&D Track!
Sep. 24
Publications
More Is Not More: What Matters for Diversity in LLM Opinions?

Qiyang Yao

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026

This work demonstrates that diversity is not a product of scaling along any single dimension, but is highly sensitive to the structural form and combination of interventions.

Study design comparing persona detail and interaction architectures.
More Is Not More: What Matters for Diversity in LLM Opinions?

Qiyang Yao

Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2026

This work demonstrates that diversity is not a product of scaling along any single dimension, but is highly sensitive to the structural form and combination of interventions.