--- title: "Dongkuan Xu — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Dongkuan Xu, North Carolina State University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023), h-index 19 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongkuan-xu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongkuan-xu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Dongkuan Xu # Dongkuan Xu Dongkuan Xu has 2 papers in our library, in 2023, 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 [Binfeng Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/binfeng-xu/), [Yuchen Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuchen-liu/), [Zhiyuan Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyuan-peng/). 2 papers in our library · 2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5068433690) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1456-9658) · [**h-index 19**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5068433690) · [94 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5068433690) · [3,106 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5068433690&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongkuan-xu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 55 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongkuan-xu/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8985](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/90/#star-8985) 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=Dongkuan+Xu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Dongkuan+Xu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Dongkuan+Xu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Dongkuan+Xu) ## Affiliations [🎓**North Carolina State University** Raleigh · United States 2022–2026 · 69 papersEmployment since 2022 · Assistant Professor, Computer Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/north-carolina-state-university/) · [🎓**Pennsylvania State University** State College · United States 2017–2022 · 21 papersEducation 2017–2022 · Ph.D., College of Information Science and Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/pennsylvania-state-university/) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2015–2017 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🎓**University of Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2015–2017 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🎓**Renmin University of China** Beijing · China 2014–2015 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/renmin-university-of-china/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 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 [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongkuan-xu/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ReWOO: Decoupling Reasoning from Observations for Efficient Augmented Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2023-rewoo-decoupling-reasoning-observations-efficient/)** *(2023 · 61 citations)* Tool-using language systems such as ReAct alternate between model reasoning and tool calls. Each time a tool returns a result, the model must be called again with the full history: instructions, examples, earlier thoughts and observations. Because commercial LLM APIs are stateless and priced per token, this repeated… 2. **[Gentopia: A Collaborative Platform for Tool-Augmented LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2023-gentopia-collaborative-platform-tool-augmented/)** *(2023 · 15 citations)* Existing toolkits for tool-augmented language models (ALMs, or "agents"), such as AutoGPT, LangChain and HuggingGPT, are often tied to narrow task sets and need heavy boilerplate to tune. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Binfeng Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/binfeng-xu/) ×2 - [Yuchen Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuchen-liu/) ×2 - [Zhiyuan Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyuan-peng/) ×2 - [Hua Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hua-shen/) - [Subhabrata Mukherjee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/subhabrata-mukherjee/) - [Yuhan Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuhan-li/) - [Zeyu Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeyu-han/) - [Ziyu Yao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziyu-yao/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 55 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [14 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongkuan-xu/cited-by/). Updated 4 November 2026