--- title: "Andrew Zhao — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Andrew Zhao, Georgia Institute of Technology: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-zhao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-zhao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Andrew Zhao # Andrew Zhao Andrew Zhao has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Gao Ming Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gao-ming-huang/), [Yang Yue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-yue/), [Qingyun Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qingyun-wu/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5011734244) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5011734244) · [12 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5011734244) · [10 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5011734244&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-zhao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 261 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-zhao/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5765](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/58/#star-5765) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Andrew+Zhao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Andrew+Zhao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Andrew+Zhao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Andrew+Zhao) ## Affiliations [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2025–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) · [🎓**Georgia Institute of Technology** Atlanta · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgia-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**University of California, Irvine** Irvine · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-irvine/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 2021–2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-zhao/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-zhao/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yue-2025-reinforcement-learning-really-incentivize-reasoning/)** *(2025 · 216 citations)* Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) is widely credited with giving LLMs new reasoning skills in math and code. 2. **[Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-play Reasoning with Zero Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2025-absolute-zero-reinforced-self-play/)** *(2025 · 57 citations)* Current "zero" RLVR methods skip human-written reasoning traces, but they still train on large human-curated sets of questions and answers. 3. **[Are My Optimized Prompts Compromised? Exploring Vulnerabilities of LLM-based Optimizers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-are-my-optimized-prompts-compromised/)** *(2026)* LLM-based prompt optimizers rewrite a system prompt over many rounds, guided by scored feedback on the model's answers. ## All works 6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**Does Reinforcement Learning Really Incentivize Reasoning Capacity in LLMs Beyond the Base Model? arXiv:2504.13837 · NeurIPS 2025 Oral; ICML 2025 AI4MATH workshop best paper**Yang Yue, Zhiqi Chen, Rui Lu, et al.*2025 · 216 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yue-2025-reinforcement-learning-really-incentivize-reasoning/) 2. **[Absolute Zero: Reinforced Self-play Reasoning with Zero Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2025-absolute-zero-reinforced-self-play/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Andrew Zhao, Yiran Wu, Yang Yue, et al.*2025 · 57 citations* 3. **[Are My Optimized Prompts Compromised? Exploring Vulnerabilities of LLM-based Optimizers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-are-my-optimized-prompts-compromised/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Andrew Zhao, Reshmi Ghosh, Vitor R. Carvalho, et al.*2026* 4. **[Robostral Navigate ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20785) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Abdelaziz Bounhar et al.*2026* 5. **[Shieldstral ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.25857) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Antonia Calvi et al.*2026* 6. **[SPADE: Self-Play in Adaptive Synthetic Executable Environments ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19197) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Bo Liu et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Gao Ming Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gao-ming-huang/) ×3 - [Yang Yue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-yue/) ×2 - [Qingyun Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qingyun-wu/) - [Rui Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rui-lu/) - [Shenzhi Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shenzhi-wang/) - [Tong Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-wu/) - [Vitor R. Carvalho](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vitor-r-carvalho/) - [Yiran Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiran-wu/) - [Zhaokai Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhaokai-wang/) - [Zilong Zheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zilong-zheng/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 261 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [83 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-zhao/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026