# Yijun Pan (潘逸骏)

> Researcher building reliable LLM agents for long-horizon, real-world settings.

Canonical website: https://charles-pyj.github.io/

## Research

Yijun Pan studies long-horizon decision-making under sparse, noisy, and delayed feedback. His work builds simulation environments and develops post-training methods that make LLM agents more capable, reliable, and adaptive in real-world settings.

Research areas include LLM agents, post-training and reinforcement learning, simulation environments, evaluation and attribution, recommendation systems, and AI safety.

## Education

Yijun Pan is pursuing a two-year M.S. in Computer Science at Yale University. He holds dual bachelor's degrees in Data Science from the University of Michigan and Electrical and Computer Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

## Primary pages

- About: https://charles-pyj.github.io/
- Publications: https://charles-pyj.github.io/publications/
- CV: https://charles-pyj.github.io/cv/
- XML sitemap: https://charles-pyj.github.io/sitemap.xml

## Publications and projects

- Business Arena: Benchmarking LLM Agents in a Realistic Marketplace (2026): A long-horizon marketplace for measuring how LLM agents create or lose value through sourcing, pricing, inventory, service, compliance, and capital decisions. [Project](https://business-arena.site.accio.ai) [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.08621)
- FlexRec: Adapting LLM-based Recommenders for Flexible Needs via Reinforcement Learning (2026): A reinforcement-learning framework with item-level counterfactual rewards and uncertainty-aware scaling for adaptable LLM recommenders. [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11901)
- DATE-LM: Benchmarking Data Attribution Evaluation for Large Language Models (2025): A unified benchmark and public leaderboard for evaluating LLM data-attribution methods across selection, safety, and factual attribution. [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.09424)
- Detecting and Filtering Unsafe Training Data via Data Attribution with Denoised Representation (2025): A targeted attribution method for identifying harmful training samples and reducing unsafe model behavior after filtering and retraining. [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.11411)
- Bridging AI and Science: Implications from a Large-Scale Literature Analysis of AI4Science (2024): A large-scale map of the gaps between scientific problems and the AI methods currently used to address them. [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09628)
- dattri: A Library for Efficient Data Attribution (2024): An open-source library that unifies efficient data-attribution methods, utilities, and reproducible benchmarks behind a common API. [Paper](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04555) [GitHub](https://github.com/TRAIS-Lab/dattri)
- Interpreting Spatial Reasoning Capabilities in Language Models (2024): An interpretability study of where and how spatial reasoning capabilities emerge inside language models. [Paper](https://charles-pyj.github.io/files/paper3.pdf)

## Public identity

- Name: Yijun Pan
- Chinese name: 潘逸骏
- GitHub: https://github.com/charles-pyj
- Email: yijun.pan@yale.edu

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