Meng Li   |   李萌

I am a PhD student at Wuhan University, supervised by Prof. Donghong Ji (姬东鸿). My research explores LLM interpretability, AI alignment, and adaptive agents. My general research interests lie in natural language processing, machine learning and cognitive science.

I value theoretical work that pushes the boundaries of human knowledge and engineering solutions that address practical problems.

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News

  • May. 2025 Our paper is accepted to ACL 2025! 🎉 It is on evaluating the ability of LLMs to express epistemic uncertainty.

  • Apr. 2024 One paper is accepted to CogSci 2024! It is the second paper on part-whole hierarchies after Hinton (1988) at CogSci!
  • Publications

    † Equal contribution. * Corresponding author. The leading papers are highlighted.

    See completed entries in my Google Scholar.


    Epistemic meaning
    Representations of Fact, Fiction and Forecast in Large Language Models: Epistemics and Attitudes
    Meng Li, Michael Vrazitulis, David Schlangen
    Paper / Code
    ACL 2025 (Oral)

    The expressions of uncertainty generated by LLMs are not always reliable, and it is necessary to enrich semantic knowledge of epistemic modality in LLMs.


    Learning Part-whole Hierarchies from the Sequence of Handwriting
    Meng Li, David Schlangen, Dietrich Klakow
    Paper  / Code & Appendix
    CogSci 2024

    RNN and Transformer models illustrate a certain ability in learning part-whole hierarchies, but they do not have robust compositional reasoning.


    Experience

  • 2026.09 - Present, Wuhan University, PhD student, Advisor: Prof. Donghong Ji

  • Service

  • Reviewer: CoNLL 2025

  • Teaching

  • Teaching Assistant, Wuhan University: Msc, NLP Technique, 26Autumn.
  • Instructor, University of Potsdam: Msc, Advanced NLP (Exercise), 23/24W; Msc, Pretrained Models, 24S; Msc, Large Language Models: Theory and Practice, 25S. Bsc, Grammatical Error Correction, 24S,25S; Bsc, Build Your Own Neural Networks, 24/25W, 25/26W.