William Yang Wang

18.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
352 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

William Yang Wang is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Yang Wang has authored 352 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 130 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 48 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 46 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in William Yang Wang's work include Natural Language Processing Techniques (54 papers), Topic Modeling (49 papers) and Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (34 papers). William Yang Wang is often cited by papers focused on Natural Language Processing Techniques (54 papers), Topic Modeling (49 papers) and Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (34 papers). William Yang Wang collaborates with scholars based in United States, Hong Kong and China. William Yang Wang's co-authors include James W. Minett, Ovid J. L. Tzeng, Gang Peng, Liang‐Shih Fan, Liang Zeng, Diyi Yang, Siwei Luo, Elizabeth Belding, Xin Wang and Matthew Y. Chen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Biological Chemistry.

In The Last Decade

William Yang Wang

324 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

Reinforced Cross-Modal Matching and Self-Supervised Imita... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 100 200 300
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Reinforced Cross-Modal Matching and Self-Supervised Imitation Learning for Vision-Language Navigation
    2019 306 citations Xin Wang, William Yang Wang et al. profile →

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William Yang Wang
Comparison fields: 5 of 215
  • Artificial Intelligence 3.1k
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 1.9k
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 1.4k
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 1.3k
  • Linguistics and Language 870
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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REALM: A Dataset of Real-World LLM Use Cases
2025 ·(unknown), (unknown), Hua Wang, William Yang Wang, Hong Shen, Fu‐Min Fang
0
2
Emergent neuronal mechanisms mediating covert attention in convolutional neural networks
2025 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·(unknown), William Yang Wang, Miguel P. Eckstein
0
3
Automatic Layout Planning for Visually-Rich Documents with Instruction-Following Models
2024 ·Wanrong Zhu, Ruiyi Zhang, Jennifer Healey, William Yang Wang, (unknown)
2
4
MultiAgent Collaboration Attack: Investigating Adversarial Attacks in Large Language Model Collaborations via Debate
2024 ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Wenyue Hua, Liangming Pan, William Yang Wang
4
5
ImaginE: An Imagination-Based Automatic Evaluation Metric for Natural Language Generation
2023 ·Wanrong Zhu, Xin Wang, An Yan, Miguel P. Eckstein, William Yang Wang
2
6
The Truth is Out There: Investigating Conspiracy Theories in Text Generation.
2021 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·(unknown), (unknown), William Yang Wang
2
7
SSCR: Iterative Language-Based Image Editing via Self-Supervised Counterfactual Reasoning
2020 ·Tsu-Jui Fu, Xin Wang, Scott T. Grafton, Miguel P. Eckstein, William Yang Wang
15
8
Learning to Stop: A Simple yet Effective Approach to Urban Vision-Language Navigation
2020 ·(unknown), Xin Wang, William Yang Wang
15
9
Automatic Domain Partitioning for Multi-Domain Learning
2013 ·Di Wang, Chenyan Xiong, William Yang Wang
1
10
A computational model of the coevolution of lexicon and syntax
2005 ·Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences ·Tao Gong, Jinyun Ke, James W. Minett, John H. Holland, William Yang Wang
3
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Change in language : Whitney, Bréal, and Wegener. By Brigitte Nerlich. (Routledge history of linguistic thought series.) London: Routledge, 1990. Pp. xiv, 213. Cloth $47.50.
1991 ·Language ·William Yang Wang
3
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Vocal physiology: Voice production, mechanisms and functions. Ed. by Osamu Fujimura. New York: Raven Press, 1988. Pp. xxiv, 481. $95.00.
1989 ·Language ·William Yang Wang
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Speech and speaker recognition . (Bibliotheca phonetica, 12.) Ed. by M. R. Schroeder Basel: Karger, 1985. Pp. viii, 203. SF 139.00.
1986 ·Language ·William Yang Wang
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14
Spatial Distance and Lexical Replacement
1986 ·Language ·L. L. Cavalli‐Sforza, William Yang Wang
6
15
Electronic synthesis of speech . By R. Linggard Cambridge: University Press, 1985. Pp. viii, 149.
1986 ·Language ·William Yang Wang
4
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The written languages of the world: A survey of the degree and modes of use. Volume 1: The Americas. Ed. by Heinz Kloss and Grant D. McConnell. Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 1978. Pp. 633.
1981 ·Language ·William Yang Wang
2
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Language and linguistics in the People's Republic of China . Edited by Winfred P. Lehmann. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1975. Pp. ix, 168. Cloth $9.50, paper $3.95.
1980 ·Language ·William Yang Wang
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The role of speech in language . Edited by James F. Kavanagh and James E. Cutting. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1975. Pp. xiii, 335. $15.00.
1979 ·Language ·William Yang Wang
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Acoustic phonetics: a course of basic readings. Edited by D. B. Fry. Cambridge: University Press, 1976. Pp. 469. $21.50.
1977 ·Language ·William Yang Wang
10
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Sound change: Actuation and implementation
1975 ·Language ·Matthew Y. Chen, William Yang Wang
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