--- title: "Chak Tou Leong — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Chak Tou Leong, Hong Kong Polytechnic University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chak-tou-leong/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chak-tou-leong/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Chak Tou Leong # Chak Tou Leong Chak Tou Leong has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Efficient models & compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/); often with [Wenjie Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenjie-li/), [Heming Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heming-xia/), [Jian Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-wang/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5009277283) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5009277283) · [25 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009277283) · [61 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009277283&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chak-tou-leong/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 100 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chak-tou-leong/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6677](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/67/#star-6677) 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=Chak+Tou+Leong) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Chak+Tou+Leong) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Chak+Tou+Leong) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Chak+Tou+Leong) ## Affiliations [🎓**Hong Kong Polytechnic University** Hong Kong · China 2023–2026 · 23 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hong-kong-polytechnic-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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 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/) · [Control and Systems Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/control-and-systems-engineering/) · [Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Efficient models & compression · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chak-tou-leong/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chak-tou-leong/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[TokenSkip: Controllable Chain-of-Thought Compression in LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xia-2025-tokenskip-controllable-chain-thought-compression/)** *(2025 · 106 citations)* Long chain-of-thought (CoT) outputs help LLMs reason better, but every extra generated token adds decoding time and key-value cache memory. 2. **[KNN-SSD: Enabling Dynamic Self-Speculative Decoding via Nearest Neighbor Layer Set Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/song-2026-knn-ssd-enabling-dynamic-self/)** *(2026 · 5 citations)* Self-speculative decoding (Self-SD) speeds up LLM inference by skipping some of the model's own layers to produce draft tokens, which the full model then verifies. 3. **[Seeing Isn't Believing: Mitigating Belief Inertia via Active Intervention in Embodied Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-seeing-isn-t-believing-mitigating/)** *(2026)* LLM-driven embodied agents often see relevant feedback but then act as if they had not, for example searching for an item already in view. ## All works 4 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. **[TokenSkip: Controllable Chain-of-Thought Compression in LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xia-2025-tokenskip-controllable-chain-thought-compression/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Heming Xia, Chak Tou Leong, Wenjie Wang, et al.*2025 · 106 citations* 2. **[KNN-SSD: Enabling Dynamic Self-Speculative Decoding via Nearest Neighbor Layer Set Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/song-2026-knn-ssd-enabling-dynamic-self/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Mingbo Song, Heming Xia, Jun Zhang, et al.*2026 · 5 citations* 3. **[Seeing Isn't Believing: Mitigating Belief Inertia via Active Intervention in Embodied Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-seeing-isn-t-believing-mitigating/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Hanlin Wang, Chak Tou Leong, Jian Wang, et al.*2026* 4. **[Merlin's Whisper: Enabling Efficient Reasoning in Large Language Models via Black-box Persuasive Prompting ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.917/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Heming Xia et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Wenjie Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenjie-li/) ×3 - [Heming Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heming-xia/) ×2 - [Jian Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-wang/) - [Jun Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jun-zhang/) - [Mingbo Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingbo-song/) - [Qiancheng Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qiancheng-xu/) - [Sujian Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sujian-li/) - [Wenjie Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenjie-wang/) - [Yongqi Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yongqi-li/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/) ×2: [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ×2 - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) - Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 100 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [37 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chak-tou-leong/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026