Understand the Effectiveness of Shortcuts through the Lens of DCA. - Youran Sun; Yihua Liu; Yi-Shuai Niu (CoRR, 2024)

LLMs Meet Finance: Fine-Tuning Foundation Models for the Open FinLLM Leaderboard. - Varun Rao; Youran Sun; Mahendra Kumar; Tejas Mutneja; Agastya Mukherjee; Haizhao Yang (IDS, 2025)

rStar-Math: Small LLMs Can Master Math Reasoning with Self-Evolved Deep Thinking. - Xinyu Guan; Li Lyna Zhang; Yifei Liu; Ning Shang; Youran Sun; Yi Zhu; Fan Yang 024; Mao Yang 004 (CoRR, 2025)

Phase Transitions in Large Language Models and the O(N) Model. - Youran Sun; Babak Haghighat (CoRR, 2025)

Jailbreaking LLMs' Safeguard with Universal Magic Words for Text Embedding Models. - Haoyu Liang; Youran Sun; Yunfeng Cai; Jun Zhu; Bo Zhang (CoRR, 2025)

In-depth Analysis of Graph-based RAG in a Unified Framework. - Yingli Zhou; Yaodong Su; Youran Sun; Shu Wang; Taotao Wang; Runyuan He; Yongwei Zhang; Sicong Liang; Xilin Liu; Yuchi Ma; Yixiang Fang (CoRR, 2025)

OptimAI: Optimization from Natural Language Using LLM-Powered AI Agents. - Raghav Thind; Youran Sun; Ling Liang; Haizhao Yang (CoRR, 2025)