--- title: "Chen Zhao — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Chen Zhao, Liaoning Technical University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 22 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-zhao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-zhao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Chen Zhao # Chen Zhao Chen Zhao has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, 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/); often with [Alicia Parrish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alicia-parrish/), [Angelica Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/angelica-chen/), [Anh Tuan Luu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anh-tuan-luu/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100351992) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9843-6758) · [**h-index 22**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100351992) · [104 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100351992) · [2,145 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100351992&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-zhao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 30 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-zhao/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8274](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/83/#star-8274) 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=Chen+Zhao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Chen+Zhao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Chen+Zhao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Chen+Zhao) ## Affiliations [🎓**École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne** Lausanne · Switzerland 2021–2026 · 10 papersEducationEmployment 2021–2026*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ecole-polytechnique-federale-de-lausanne/) · [🎓**Wuhan University** Wuhan · China 2023–2026 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/wuhan-university/) · [🎓**Liaoning Technical University** Fuxin · China 2022–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://ror.org/01n2bd587) · [🎓**Fudan University** Shanghai · China 2013–2025 · 15 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/fudan-university/) · [🎓**Huazhong University of Science and Technology** Wuhan · China 2013–2022 · 11 papersEducation 2013–2017 · BachelarEducation 2017–2020 · Master](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**Shanghai Jiao Tong University** Shanghai · China 2018–2022 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shanghai-jiao-tong-university/) · [🎓**King Abdullah University of Science and Technology** Jeddah · Saudi Arabia 2022–2024 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/king-abdullah-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🔬**Nuclear Power Institute of China** Chengdu · China 2023–2024 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/01fz94q82) · [🎓**Beijing Information Science & Technology University** Beijing · China 2018–2024 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/04xnqep60) · [🎓**New York University** New York · United States 2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 33 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 6 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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](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 [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-zhao/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-zhao/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Two Failures of Self-Consistency in the Multi-Step Reasoning of LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2023-two-failures-self-consistency-multi/)** *(2023 · 25 citations)* Evaluations of LLMs usually check whether answers are correct, not whether a model's answers agree with each other. 2. **[Diffusion vs. Autoregressive Language Models: A Text Embedding Perspective](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-diffusion-vs-autoregressive-language-models/)** *(2025 · 10 citations)* Embedding models built on decoder-only LLMs have become very strong. However, they inherit causal attention from pre-training: each token's representation ignores everything that follows it. This is a poor fit for embedding tasks, which benefit from seeing the whole text at once. The authors propose DiffEmbed, which… ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Progressive Correspondence Pruning by Consensus Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv48922.2021.00640) IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · no summary yet**Chen Zhao et al.*2021 · 99 citations* 2. [**Two Failures of Self-Consistency in the Multi-Step Reasoning of LLMs arXiv:2305.14279 · Transactions on Machine Learning Research (2024)**Angelica Chen, Jason Phang, Alicia Parrish, et al.*2023 · 25 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2023-two-failures-self-consistency-multi/) 3. **[Diffusion vs. Autoregressive Language Models: A Text Embedding Perspective](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-diffusion-vs-autoregressive-language-models/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Siyue Zhang, Yilun Zhao, Liyuan Geng, et al.*2025 · 10 citations* 4. **[Retrieval-Augmented Chain-of-Thought in Semi-structured Domains ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.nllp-1.18/) Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2023 · no summary yet**Vaibhav Mavi, Abulhair Saparov, Chen Zhao*2023 · 9 citations* ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alicia Parrish](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alicia-parrish/) - [Angelica Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/angelica-chen/) - [Anh Tuan Luu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anh-tuan-luu/) - [Arman Cohan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arman-cohan/) - [Jason Phang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-phang/) - [Kyunghyun Cho](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyunghyun-cho/) - [Samuel R. Bowman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-r-bowman/) - [Siyue Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siyue-zhang/) - [Vishakh Padmakumar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vishakh-padmakumar/) - [Yilun Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yilun-zhao/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [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/) - IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) - Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2023 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 30 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-zhao/cited-by/). 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