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Victor De Lima

vad49[at]georgetown[dot]edu

I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Georgetown University, advised by Grace Hui Yang in the InfoSense Lab. My work focuses on applied large language model systems, including reinforcement learning-based methods and agentic conversational architectures.

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Stability Regimes for Framing-Sensitive Fine-Tuning in Language Models
NeurIPS 2026 · Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 39
December 6-12, 2026 · Sydney, Australia
Victor De Lima, Jiqun Liu, and Grace Hui Yang.
large language models · conversational agents
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YIELD: A Large-Scale Dataset and Evaluation Framework for Information Elicitation Agents
ACL 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
July 2-7, 2026 · San Diego, California
Victor De Lima and Grace Hui Yang.
proceedings
arXiv
large language models · conversational agents · reinforcement learning
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conference
Stability Regimes for Framing-Sensitive Fine-Tuning in Language Models
NeurIPS 2026 · Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 39
December 6-12, 2026 · Sydney, Australia
Victor De Lima, Jiqun Liu, and Grace Hui Yang.
large language models · conversational agents
conference
YIELD: A Large-Scale Dataset and Evaluation Framework for Information Elicitation Agents
ACL 2026 · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
July 2-7, 2026 · San Diego, California
Victor De Lima and Grace Hui Yang.
proceedings
arXiv
large language models · conversational agents · reinforcement learning
conference
Passage Query Methods for Retrieval and Reranking in Conversational Agents
TREC 2024 · Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Text Retrieval Conference
November 18-22, 2025 · Rockville, MD, USA
Victor De Lima and Grace Hui Yang.
article
arXiv
proceedings
presentation
conversational agents · information retrieval
presentation
Does Query Tone and Structure Impact Neural Reranking Performance?
The Second Workshop on Task Focused IR in the Era of Generative AI
Sep 27, 2024 · Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA
Victor De Lima and Grace Hui Yang.
poster
workshop page
conversational agents · information retrieval
news
Aug 28, 2024
Started my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the Georgetown InfoSense lab!
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