--- title: "Ao Zhou · Nanjing University — author profile and papers" description: "Ao Zhou, Nanjing University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ao-zhou/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ao-zhou/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ao Zhou # Ao Zhou Ao Zhou has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Jun Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jun-zhang/), [Juntao Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/juntao-li/), [Min Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/min-zhang/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5013249146) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5013249146) · [3 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5013249146) · [59 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5013249146&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ao-zhou/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ao-zhou/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11110](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/112/#star-11110) 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=Ao+Zhou) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ao+Zhou) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ao+Zhou) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ao+Zhou) ## Affiliations [🎓**Nanjing University** Nanjing · China 2009–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanjing-university/) 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).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ao-zhou/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Focus-dLLM: Accelerating Long-Context Diffusion LLM Inference via Confidence-Guided Context Focusing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/long-2026-focus-dllm-accelerating-long-context/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Diffusion LLMs (dLLMs) decode by iteratively denoising a masked sequence with bidirectional full attention, which becomes very expensive for long inputs. 2. **[Data Foundations of Long-Context Language Models: A Survey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2026-data-foundations-long-context-language/)** *(2026)* Most earlier surveys of long-context language models (LCMs, here meaning models with windows above 128K tokens) focus on architecture and efficient training, so the role of data has been largely overlooked. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jun Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jun-zhang/) - [Juntao Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/juntao-li/) - [Min Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/min-zhang/) - [Wenliang Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenliang-chen/) - [Yuyang Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuyang-sun/) - [Zechen Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zechen-sun/) - [Zecheng Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zecheng-tang/) - [Zhaochen Su](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhaochen-su/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ao-zhou/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026