Christine Ye - Research

ReplicationBench: Can AI Agents Replicate Astrophysics Research Papers? [arXiv][GitHub][blog]
Astrophysics research capability evaluations of language models, for and by astrophysicists. NeurIPS FM4S Oral
Disentangling Dense Embeddings with Sparse Autoencoders [arXiv][GitHub][demo]
Sparse autoencoders for embeddings and steerable search. NeurIPS FM4S Oral
Searching for Bumps in the Cosmological Road: Do Type Ia Supernovae with Early Excesses Have Biased Hubble Residuals? [arXiv][GitHub]
Precise measurement of systematics for our expanding universe. In ApJ
Inferring the neutron star maximum mass and lower mass gap in neutron star-black hole systems with spin [arXiv]
Connecting fundamental astrophysics and gravitational wave populations. In ApJ
Cosmology with Standard Sirens at Cosmic Noon [arXiv]
Simulating gravitational wave cosmology for the 2040s. In Phys. Rev. D

Inoculation Prompting: Instructing LLMs to misbehave at train-time improves test-time alignment [arXiv]
Surprising tricks for reducing undesired generalization from fine-tuning!
pathfinder: A Semantic Framework for Literature Review and Knowledge Discovery in Astronomy [arXiv] [pathfinder]
Semantic search (+ RAG, HyDE, ReAct, other acronyms) for scientific literature. In ApJS
SN2023ixf in Messier 101: the twilight years of the progenitor as seen by Pan-STARRS [arXiv]
Real observations from an incredible telescope. In ApJ
The role of natal kicks in forming asymmetric compact binary mergers [arXiv]
Simulations to explain some unexpected LIGO observations. In ApJ