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# Deli Zhao

Deli Zhao has 5 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, 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/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/); often with [Lidong Bing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lidong-bing/), [Weiwen Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiwen-xu/), [Yu Rong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-rong/).

5 papers in our library · 2024–2025

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101911374) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8838-578X) · [**h-index 26**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101911374) · [121 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101911374) · [3,675 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101911374&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 5 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deli-zhao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 200 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deli-zhao/cited-by/) · [5 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6968](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/70/#star-6968)

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=Deli+Zhao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Deli+Zhao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Deli+Zhao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Deli+Zhao)

## Affiliations

[🏢**Alibaba Group** Hangzhou · China 2020–2026 · 46 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group/) · [🏢**Alibaba DAMO Academy** Hangzhou · China 2023–2026 · 14 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-damo-academy/) · [🏢**Alibaba Group** George Town · Cayman Islands 2023–2025 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group-cayman-islands/) · [🏢**Xiaomi** Beijing · China 2019–2025 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/xiaomi/) · [🎓**Chinese University of Hong Kong** Hong Kong · China 2008–2014 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/chinese-university-of-hong-kong/) · [🎓**Kunming Institute of Physics** Kunming · China 2014–2025 · 4 papers](https://ror.org/0510x7s97) · [🎓**Shanghai Jiao Tong University** Shanghai · China 2004–2006 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shanghai-jiao-tong-university/) · [🏢**Microsoft Research Asia** Beijing · China 2007 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft-research-asia/) · [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2014–2016 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) · [🎓**Harbin Medical University** Harbin · China 2015 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/05jscf583)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 8 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 10 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Health Informatics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/health-informatics/) · [Medicine · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/molecular-biology/)

🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2025** 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deli-zhao/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deli-zhao/year/2024/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[VideoLLaMA 2: Advancing Spatial-Temporal Modeling and Audio Understanding in Video-LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cheng-2024-videollama-2-advancing-spatial-temporal/)** *(2024 · 118 citations)* Video-LLMs lag behind image-focused multimodal models because they fuse information across frames poorly and usually ignore the soundtrack. VideoLLaMA 2, from DAMO Academy (Alibaba Group), tackles both weaknesses while keeping the modular two-branch layout of the original VideoLLaMA.
2. **[Auto-Arena: Automating LLM Evaluations with Agent Peer Battles and Committee Discussions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2025-auto-arena-automating-llm-evaluations/)** *(2025 · 16 citations)* Keeping up with rapidly released LLMs requires evaluation that is both fast and trustworthy. Static benchmarks such as MMLU or MT-Bench risk contamination and handle open-ended output poorly. Crowdsourced platforms like Chatbot Arena are trusted but need many human votes, which makes them slow for new models and weak…
3. **[ReasonMed: A 370K Multi-Agent Generated Dataset for Advancing Medical Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2025-reasonmed-370k-multi-agent-generated/)** *(2025 · 11 citations)* Reasoning-oriented LLMs do well in math and code, but medical QA depends on broad, accurate domain knowledge and lacks large, carefully checked reasoning data.
4. **[Babel: Open Multilingual Large Language Models Serving Over 90% of Global Speakers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2025-babel-open-multilingual-large-language/)** *(2025 · 8 citations)* Open multilingual LLMs tend to favor languages with abundant web text, such as French or German. Populous but data-poor languages like Hindi, Bengali or Urdu remain underserved. Babel, from Alibaba's DAMO Academy, targets the 25 languages with the most speakers, which together cover roughly 7 billion people.
5. **[FineReason: Evaluating and Improving LLMs' Deliberate Reasoning through Reflective Puzzle Solving](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2025-finereason-evaluating-improving-llms-deliberate/)** *(2025 · 6 citations)* Most reasoning benchmarks for LLMs score only the final answer. They do not show whether a model can examine its intermediate steps, notice a dead end, and recover from it. FineReason fills this gap with logic puzzles that break down into small verifiable steps. It covers four puzzle types: Sudoku, Graph Coloring…

## All works

10 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 5 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[AnyDoor: Zero-shot Object-level Image Customization ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr52733.2024.00630) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Xi Chen et al.*2024 · 200 citations*
2. **[Notice of Removal: VideoFusion: Decomposed Diffusion Models for High-Quality Video Generation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr52729.2023.00984) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Zhengxiong Luo et al.*2023 · 144 citations*
3. [**VideoLLaMA 2: Advancing Spatial-Temporal Modeling and Audio Understanding in Video-LLMs arXiv:2406.07476**Zesen Cheng, Sicong Leng, Hang Zhang, et al.*2024 · 118 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cheng-2024-videollama-2-advancing-spatial-temporal/)
4. **[Progressive Spatio-Temporal Prototype Matching for Text-Video Retrieval ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv51070.2023.00379) IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · no summary yet**Pandeng Li et al.*2023 · 64 citations*
5. **[Recognizing an Action Using Its Name: A Knowledge-Based Approach ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-016-0893-6) International Journal of Computer Vision · no summary yet**Chuang Gan et al.*2016 · 62 citations*
6. **[Chain of Ideas: Revolutionizing Research Via Novel Idea Development with LLM Agents ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13185) arXiv:2410.13185 · no summary yet**Long Li et al.*2024 · 47 citations*
7. **[Auto-Arena: Automating LLM Evaluations with Agent Peer Battles and Committee Discussions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2025-auto-arena-automating-llm-evaluations/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Ruochen Zhao, Wenxuan Zhang, Yew Ken Chia, et al.*2025 · 16 citations*
8. **[ReasonMed: A 370K Multi-Agent Generated Dataset for Advancing Medical Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2025-reasonmed-370k-multi-agent-generated/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Yu Sun, Xingyu Qian, Weiwen Xu, et al.*2025 · 11 citations*
9. [**Babel: Open Multilingual Large Language Models Serving Over 90% of Global Speakers arXiv:2503.00865**Yiran Zhao, Chaoqun Liu, Yue Deng, et al.*2025 · 8 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2025-babel-open-multilingual-large-language/)
10. **[FineReason: Evaluating and Improving LLMs' Deliberate Reasoning through Reflective Puzzle Solving](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2025-finereason-evaluating-improving-llms-deliberate/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Guizhen Chen, Weiwen Xu, Hao Zhang, et al.*2025 · 6 citations*

## Co-authors here

12 of 25 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Lidong Bing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lidong-bing/) ×4
- [Weiwen Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiwen-xu/) ×3
- [Yu Rong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-rong/) ×3
- [Chaoqun Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaoqun-liu/) ×2
- [Hao Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-zhang/) ×2
- [Hou Pong Chan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hou-pong-chan/) ×2
- [Wenxuan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenxuan-zhang/) ×2
- [Anh Tuan Luu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anh-tuan-luu/)
- [Chenghao Xiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenghao-xiao/)
- [Guanzheng Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guanzheng-chen/)
- [Guizhen Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guizhen-chen/)
- [Hang Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hang-zhang/)

## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) ×2
- IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings ×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/)
- IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
- International Journal of Computer Vision

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 200 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [45 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deli-zhao/cited-by/).

Updated 2 November 2026