--- title: "Cong Yu — author profile and papers" description: "Cong Yu, Chengdu Agricultural College: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2021), h-index 48 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cong-yu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cong-yu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Cong Yu # Cong Yu Cong Yu has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2021, most of them on [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Tokenization & segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/); often with [Dara Bahri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dara-bahri/), [Dian Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dian-yu/), [Donald Metzler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/donald-metzler/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2021 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5043275971) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7331-2345) · [**h-index 48**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5043275971) · [218 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5043275971) · [8,185 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5043275971&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cong-yu/#papers) · [🔗 300 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cong-yu/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3168](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/32/#star-3168) 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=Cong+Yu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Cong+Yu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Cong+Yu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Cong+Yu) ## Affiliations [🎓**Chengdu Agricultural College** Chengdu · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/009wy9089) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2010–2022 · 66 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**University of Michigan** Ann Arbor · United States 2002–2007 · 20 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-michigan/) · [🎓**Morgan State University** Baltimore · United States 2009–2024 · 18 papers](https://ror.org/017d8gk22) · [🏢**Yahoo** Sunnyvale · United States 2008–2010 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/yahoo/) · [🎓**University of Hong Kong** Pok Fu Lam · Hong Kong 2015–2024 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-hong-kong/) · [🎓**Qingdao University of Technology** Qingdao · China 2013–2025 · 11 papers](https://ror.org/01qzc0f54) · [🎓**Hefei University of Technology** Hefei · China 2020–2025 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hefei-university-of-technology/) · [🎓**Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications** Nanjing · China 2019 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/043bpky34) · [🎓**Towson University** Towson · United States 2006–2019 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/044w7a341) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 24 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Tokenization & segmentation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tay-2021-charformer-fast-character-transformers-gradient/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2020-clue-chinese-language-understanding/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[CLUE: A Chinese Language Understanding Evaluation Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2020-clue-chinese-language-understanding/)** *(2020 · 242 citations)* Shared benchmarks such as GLUE and SuperGLUE have driven progress in English NLU, but Chinese had no comparable standard. 2. **[Charformer: Fast Character Transformers via Gradient-based Subword Tokenization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tay-2021-charformer-fast-character-transformers-gradient/)** *(2021 · 179 citations)* Most NLP models rely on a subword tokenizer that is fixed before training. This makes them fragile to rare words, typos and noisy text. It also breaks low-resource languages into many fragments and makes adaptation to new domains harder. Feeding raw characters to a Transformer avoids these issues, but the long… ## Also in our library 1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dara Bahri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dara-bahri/) - [Dian Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dian-yu/) - [Donald Metzler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/donald-metzler/) - [Hai Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hai-hu/) - [Hyung Won Chung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hyung-won-chung/) - [Jai Gupta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jai-gupta/) - [Kai Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-sun/) - [Lu Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lu-li/) - [Sebastian Ruder](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-ruder/) - [Vinh Q. Tran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vinh-q-tran/) - [Yi Tay](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-tay/) - [Zhen Qin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-qin/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 300 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [40 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cong-yu/cited-by/).