# Yoonho Lee

Yoonho Lee is a final-year PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford University, advised by Chelsea Finn. He works on continual learning in text space, text optimization, and AI agents/LLM systems: systems that improve by preserving and reasoning over rich textual feedback such as execution traces, critiques, experiment logs, and retrieved evidence.

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- Home: https://www.yoonholee.com/
- Papers: https://www.yoonholee.com/papers/
- Blog: https://www.yoonholee.com/blog/
- Talk bio: https://www.yoonholee.com/talk-bio/
- Meta-Harness project: https://www.yoonholee.com/meta-harness/
- CV: https://www.yoonholee.com/assets/pdf/CV.pdf

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Yoonho Lee is a final-year PhD student in Computer Science at Stanford University, advised by Chelsea Finn. His research focuses on building AI systems that learn from rich textual feedback, rather than reducing learning signals to a scalar loss.

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## Research themes

- Continual learning in text space
- Text optimization and feedback-driven improvement
- AI agents and LLM systems
- Test-time alignment and hypothesis reweighting
- Abstraction discovery and reasoning
- Robustness under distribution shift
- Learning from natural-language corrections and rich textual feedback

## Selected work

- Meta-Harness: End-to-End Optimization of Model Harnesses. ACM CAIS 2026 AI Agents for Discovery in the Wild Workshop, Oral.
- Feedback Descent: Open-Ended Text Optimization via Pairwise Comparison. ICLR 2026 MemAgents Workshop, Best Paper Runner-Up; ICLR 2026 RSI Workshop.
- RLAD: Training LLMs to Discover Abstractions for Solving Reasoning Problems. ICLR 2026; ICML 2025 ES-FoMo Spotlight; CoLM 2025 Ram2 Oral.
- Test-Time Alignment via Hypothesis Reweighting. TMLR 2026.
- Clarify: Improving Model Robustness with Natural Language Corrections. UIST 2024.

## Biography facts

- Stanford CS PhD student, final year.
- Advisor: Chelsea Finn.
- Before Stanford: B.S. and M.S. from POSTECH.
- Support: OpenAI Superalignment Fellowship, KFAS Fellowship, Stanford HAI Google Cloud Credits Awards.
- Job market: academic and industry, 2026-27 season.

## Contact and profiles

- Email: yoonho@cs.stanford.edu
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=BAAZ_ysAAAAJ
- GitHub: https://github.com/yoonholee
- X/Twitter: https://twitter.com/yoonholeee

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