Nanyun (Violet) Peng

@VioletNPeng

Associated Professor@UCLA (leave), Scientist and manager@Google. AI and Infra, AI for science, AI creativity, event. (she/her/hers). Opinions are my own.

Los Angeles, CA

violetpeng.github.io

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Nanyun (Violet) Peng
@VioletNPeng
Nov 15, 2024
Thrilled, grateful, and humbled to have won 3 outstanding paper awards at #EMNLP2024!!! Not even in my wildest dreams. Immense thanks to my amazing students and collaborators! All three works are on evaluating LLM’ abilities in creative narrative generation. 🧵👇
Yufei Tian and 9 others
uclanlp
@uclanlp
Nov 15, 2024
Big congrats 🎉🎊🍾 to UCLA PLUS lab @VioletNPeng and collaborators won 3! !outstanding paper awards at #EMNLP2024 👏👏👏
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Nanyun (Violet) Peng
@VioletNPeng
Jun 5
My first paper at Google is out! Thank you @rohanpaul_ai for highlighting LEAP. To share more thoughts on this direction: I strongly believe that as models generate longer and more complex proofs, automatic formal verification will be the key to the future of AI for math, and
Rohan Paul
@rohanpaul_ai
Jun 4
Another great paper from Google. Shows general LLMs can solve formal math by planning proofs and checking each step. Raised general LLM performance from under 10% to 70%. A general LLM failed badly when asked to write full formal proofs in 1 try, but became much stronger when
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Nanyun (Violet) Peng
@VioletNPeng
Apr 21
Congrats @ysu_nlp for this exciting launch! Cannot wait to see what will come out from @NeoCognition!
Yu Su
@ysu_nlp
Apr 21
Introducing @NeoCognition, the agent lab for specialized intelligence. Everyone needs experts, but human expertise does not scale. Backed by $40M seed funding, we build self-learning agents that specialize across domains to make expertise abundant.
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Nanyun (Violet) Peng
@VioletNPeng
Feb 3
Grateful for the generous support and looking forward to strengthening our collaborations with Salesforce researchers! @jasonwu0731 @steeve__huang
Salesforce AI Research
@SFResearch
Jan 30
Replying to @SFResearch
(2/4) Nanyun (Violet) Peng @VioletNPeng @UCLA is developing MAP-SE, a Multi-Agent Persuasion Simulation Engine that studies how influence emerges across adaptive agents with long-term memory—moving beyond simple one-on-one interactions. #AIResearch #AgenticAI
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Nanyun (Violet) Peng
@VioletNPeng
Nov 11, 2025
If you’re interested in AI for humanity — computational journalism, creativity, narratives, etc. You should apply to work with Alex!
Alex Spangher
@AlexanderSpangh
Nov 11, 2025
✨ Very overdue update: I'll be starting as an Assistant Professor in CS at University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Fall 2026. I will be recruiting PhD students!! Please help me spread the word! [Thread] 1/n
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