--- title: "Benfeng Xu — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Benfeng Xu, University of Science and Technology of China: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2026), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benfeng-xu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benfeng-xu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Benfeng Xu # Benfeng Xu Benfeng Xu has 4 papers in our library, in 2020–2026, most of them on [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Zhendong Mao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhendong-mao/), [Chiwei Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chiwei-zhu/), [Mingxuan Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingxuan-du/). 4 papers in our library · 2020–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5085563247) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0976-1634) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5085563247) · [38 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5085563247) · [729 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5085563247&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benfeng-xu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,821 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benfeng-xu/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5072](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/51/#star-5072) 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=Benfeng+Xu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Benfeng+Xu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Benfeng+Xu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Benfeng+Xu) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Science and Technology of China** Hefei · China 2020–2026 · 30 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Information Systems and Management · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/information-systems-and-management/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benfeng-xu/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benfeng-xu/year/2025/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benfeng-xu/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Curriculum Learning for Natural Language Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2020-curriculum-learning-natural-language-understanding/)** *(2020 · 240 citations)* Pre-trained language models such as BERT are usually fine-tuned on NLU tasks with training examples shuffled randomly and weighted equally. 2. **[DeepResearch Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Deep Research Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/du-2025-deepresearch-bench-comprehensive-benchmark-deep/)** *(2025 · 41 citations)* Deep Research Agents (DRAs) are LLM systems that search the web over many steps and turn what they find into long, cited reports. 3. **[FS-Researcher: Test-Time Scaling for Long-Horizon Research Tasks with File-System-Based Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2026-fs-researcher-test-time-scaling/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Deep research agents must browse many webpages and produce long reports, but their trajectories quickly exceed the model's context window. 4. **[WildGraphBench: Benchmarking GraphRAG with Wild-Source Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-wildgraphbench-benchmarking-graphrag-wild-source/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Most GraphRAG benchmarks use short, pre-cleaned passages. That makes it hard to judge how graph-based retrieval copes with long, messy, mixed-source document collections, the setting where it should help most. WildGraphBench fills this gap using Wikipedia. Articles from 12 top-level topics are sampled. The external… ## All works 8 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Curriculum Learning for Natural Language Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2020-curriculum-learning-natural-language-understanding/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Benfeng Xu, Licheng Zhang, Zhendong Mao, et al.*2020 · 240 citations* 2. **[Entity Structure Within and Throughout: Modeling Mention Dependencies for Document-Level Relation Extraction ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v35i16.17665) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Benfeng Xu et al.*2021 · 237 citations* 3. **[ExpertPrompting: Instructing Large Language Models to be Distinguished Experts ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14688) arXiv:2305.14688 · no summary yet**Benfeng Xu et al.*2023 · 128 citations* 4. **[UniRel: Unified Representation and Interaction for Joint Relational Triple Extraction ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.477/) Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Wei Tang et al.*2022 · 81 citations* 5. [**DeepResearch Bench: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Deep Research Agents arXiv:2506.11763**Mingxuan Du, Benfeng Xu, Chiwei Zhu, et al.*2025 · 41 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/du-2025-deepresearch-bench-comprehensive-benchmark-deep/) 6. **[Disentangled Learning with Synthetic Parallel Data for Text Style Transfer ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.811/) Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Jingxuan Han et al.*2024 · 11 citations* 7. **[FS-Researcher: Test-Time Scaling for Long-Horizon Research Tasks with File-System-Based Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2026-fs-researcher-test-time-scaling/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Chiwei Zhu, Benfeng Xu, Mingxuan Du, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 8. **[WildGraphBench: Benchmarking GraphRAG with Wild-Source Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-wildgraphbench-benchmarking-graphrag-wild-source/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Pengyu Wang, Benfeng Xu, Licheng Zhang, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Zhendong Mao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhendong-mao/) ×4 - [Chiwei Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chiwei-zhu/) ×3 - [Mingxuan Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingxuan-du/) ×3 - [Licheng Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/licheng-zhang/) ×2 - [Shaohan Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaohan-wang/) ×2 - [Xiaorui Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaorui-wang/) ×2 - [Yongdong Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yongdong-zhang/) ×2 - [Pengyu Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pengyu-wang/) - [Quan Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/quan-wang/) ## 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/) ×3: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/), [ACL 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2020/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,821 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [357 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benfeng-xu/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026