Jingcheng (Frank) Niu
Hi! I am a researcher working on LLM Interpretability. You can find my research on the List of Publications.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the UKP Lab @TU Darmstadt, working with Professor Iryna Gurevych. I did my PhD at the Computational Linguistics Group @UofT, advised by Professor Gerald Penn. ηιη¨ is my name in Chinese.
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Feel free to email me about my research! I'm also happy to discuss research-related topics, grad school applications, or careers in AI/NLP. Email: frankniujc at gmail dot com.
News
- [Aug 2026] Paper Many Circuits, One Mechanism: Input Variation and Evaluation Granularity in Circuit Discovery is accepted to TMLR with a Featured Certification! ππ
- [May 2026] Paper All Circuits Lead to Rome: Rethinking Functional Anisotropy in Circuit and Sheaf Discovery for LLMs is accepted to ICML! ππ
- [Mar 2026] Paper Hypothesis-Driven Feature Manifold Analysis in LLMs via Supervised Multi-Dimensional Scaling is accepted to TMLR! ππ
- [Sep 2025] Paper Illusion or Algorithm? Investigating Memorization, Emergence, and Symbolic Processing in In-Context Learning is accepted to TMLR!
- [Aug 2025] 2 papers are accepted at EMNLP 2025 main conference! ππ
- [Jul 2025] Paper Llama See, Llama Do: A Mechanistic Perspective on Contextual Entrainment and Distraction in LLMs won the Outstanding Paper Award at ACL 2025!
Selected Publications
- Many Circuits, One Mechanism: Input Variation and Evaluation Granularity in Circuit DiscoveryTMLR 2026 Featured Certification
- All Circuits Lead to Rome: Rethinking Functional Anisotropy in Circuit and Sheaf Discovery for LLMsICML 2026Xi Chen*, Mingyu Jin*, Jingcheng Niu*, Yutong Yin, Jinman Zhao, Bangwei Guo, Dimitris N. Metaxas, Zhaoran Wang, Yutao Yue and Gerald Penn.
- Illusion or Algorithm? Investigating Memorization, Emergence, and Symbolic Processing in In-Context LearningTMLR 2025 J2C Certification
- Llama See, Llama Do: A Mechanistic Perspective on Contextual Entrainment and Distraction in LLMsACL 2025 Outstanding Paper Award
- What does the Knowledge Neuron Thesis Have to do with Knowledge?ICLR 2024 spotlight