--- title: "Houyu Zhang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Houyu Zhang: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houyu-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houyu-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Houyu Zhang # Houyu Zhang Houyu Zhang has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2026, 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/), [Knowledge graphs & ontologies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/); often with [Bing Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bing-yin/), [Chenyan Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenyan-xiong/), [Dakuo Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dakuo-wang/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5139718595) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5139718595) · [1 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139718595) · [1 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139718595&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houyu-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 63 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houyu-zhang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5826](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/59/#star-5826) 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=Houyu+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Houyu+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Houyu+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Houyu+Zhang) ## 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 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Knowledge graphs & ontologies · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [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/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Knowledge representation and reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/knowledge-representation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houyu-zhang/year/2026/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houyu-zhang/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Grounded Conversation Generation as Guided Traverses in Commonsense Knowledge Graphs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2020-grounded-conversation-generation-as-guided/)** *(2020 · 183 citations)* Neural dialogue generators often produce bland, repetitive or off-topic replies. Earlier knowledge-aware systems use external knowledge only for concepts that appear explicitly in the input and treat it as a fixed memory. Real conversations, however, drift toward neighbouring and more distant ideas. The authors… 2. **[On-Policy Self-Distillation for Efficient Diffusion Language Models with Early-Stage Calibration](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2026-policy-self-distillation-efficient-diffusion/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Diffusion language models such as masked diffusion models (MDMs) decode many tokens in parallel. Their first decoding steps are unreliable because almost every position is still masked. Those early errors carry forward, lowering output quality. They also force the model to unmask only a few tokens per step, which… ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bing Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bing-yin/) - [Chenyan Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenyan-xiong/) - [Dakuo Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dakuo-wang/) - [Jiri Gesi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiri-gesi/) - [Tian Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tian-wang/) - [Xian Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xian-li/) - [Yufan Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yufan-guo/) - [Zhenghao Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhenghao-liu/) - [Zhiyuan Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyuan-liu/) ## 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/): [ACL 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2020/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 63 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/houyu-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026