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Yan Leng

University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business

Austin, TX

United States

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Scholarly Papers (17)

1.

Interpretable Recommendations and User-Centric Explanations  with Geometric Deep Learning

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 13 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2024
Yan Leng, Rodrigo Ruiz and Xiao Liu
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business, affiliation not provided to SSRN and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
Downloads 1,656 (27,231)
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Recommender systems, Heterogeneous information, Matrix completion, Geometric deep learning, Representation learning, Interpretable machine learning, Large language model, Generative AI, Explainable recommender systems

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Folk Economics in the Machine: LLMs and the Emergence of Mental Accounting

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 13 Feb 2024 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2025
Yan Leng
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business
Downloads 1,172 (45,245)
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Generative AI, LLMs, Economic decision-making, Mental accounting, Prospect theory, Heuristics and biases, Loss aversion

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Reducing Disparity Between LLMs and Humans: Optimal LLM Sample Calibration

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 23 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2026
Yan Leng, Yunxin Sang and Ashish Agarwal
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business
Downloads 713 (90,336)

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large language model, calibration, preference learning, opinion learning, data collection, LLM-based measurement, preference measurement, opinion measurement, synthetic respondents

4.

Adaptive Data Acquisition for Personalized Recommender Systems with Optimality Guarantees on Short-Form Video Platforms

Forthcoming, Management Science
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 11 May 2021 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2024
Junyu Cao and Yan Leng
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business
Downloads 574 (118,951)

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pure exploration, information acquisition, transductive learning, short-form video platforms, recommender systems

5.

Calibration of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects in Random Experiments

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 08 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2023
Yan Leng and Drew Dimmery
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 567 (120,838)
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Causal inference, Heterogeneous treatment effects, Random experiments, Calibration, Machine learning

6.

Beyond Pairwise Network Interactions: Implications for Information Centrality

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 12 Feb 2024 Last Revised: 30 Aug 2025
Sandro Claudio Lera and Yan Leng
Southern University of Science and Technology and University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business
Downloads 358 (211,040)

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Hypergraph, Higher Order Dynamics, Centrality, Information Flow, Information Systems

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The Bullwhip: Time-to-Build and Sectoral Fluctuations

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 08 Oct 2024 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2025
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business, Princeton University, Princeton University - Princeton University and Yale UniversityYale University - Cowles Foundation
Downloads 288 (263,338)

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Network-Enabled Sequential Data Acquisition

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 27 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 26 May 2025
Junyu Cao and Yan Leng
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business
Downloads 196 (387,924)

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Data acquisition, recommender system, design science, consumer network, machine learning

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Beyond Stochastic Parroting: LLMs' Human-Like Behavioral Biases Emerge from Linear Neural Representations

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 23 Apr 2025
Yan Leng and Trung Nguyen
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and University of Texas at Austin - Department of Computer Science
Downloads 159 (480,208)

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Large Language Models, Mental Accounting, Behavioral Biases, Mechanistic Interpretability, Linear Representation

10.

Revenue-Centered Delivery Time Presentation on Platforms:  A Spatial Neural ODE Approach

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 14 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2024
Junyu Cao, Yan Leng and Hao Wang
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and University of California, Berkeley
Downloads 117 (608,822)

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information presentation, deep learning, spatio-temporal learning, ordinary differential equations, delivery time prediction

11.

Governing Customer-Facing AI: Valuing and Unlearning Data in Fine-Tuned Language Models

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 04 Dec 2025
Yan Leng and Wen Wang
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business
Downloads 102 (694,528)

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Data Governance, Data Value, Machine Unlearning, Fine-Tuning, Influence Function

12.

When Behavioral Data Betray Users: A Diagnostic and Protective Framework Against Social Interaction Leakages

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 08 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 31 May 2026
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business, The University of Sydney, University of Oxford - Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and The University of Sydney
Downloads 92 (747,755)
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network privacy; network game; network learning; social network; differential privacy

13.

When Prompts Matter: Quantifying Prompt Uncertainty and Improving Empirical Inference with LLM-Based Measurement

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 23 Mar 2026
Yan Leng
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business
Downloads 51 (1,133,231)

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large language models, text-as-data, measurement design, construct operationalization, prompt uncertainty

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Where Synthetic Respondents Fail: Diagnosing Local Validity in LLM-Augmented Preference Measurement

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 28 May 2026
Yan Leng
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business
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synthetic respondents, LLM-generated market research, hybrid measurement design, resource allocation under measurement cost, decision support, activation-level diagnostics

15.

Network-Wide Travel Time Inference from Sparse Endpoint Data: A Closed-Loop Latent Dynamics Approach with Uncertainty Quantification

Posted: 03 Feb 2026 Last Revised: 01 Apr 2026
Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing Jiaotong University, University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business, Southwest Jiaotong University and Beijing Jiaotong University

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Travel time inference, Trajectory-free inference, Sparse tensor completion, Koopman operator, Adaptive filtering, Uncertainty quantification

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Llm-Assisted Hypothesis Generation and Graph-Based Evaluation

Posted: 24 Sep 2024
Yan Leng, Hao Wang and Yuan Yuan
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business, University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Davis - Graduate School of Management

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large language models, hypothesis generation, graphs, centrality

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Are Spatial Neighbors Complements or Substitutes? Discovering a Visits-based Local Market Structure

Posted: 15 Nov 2022
Yan Leng and Ashish Agarwal
University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business and University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business

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Local market structure; Networks; Complements and substitutes; Centrality measures