--- title: "Jiannan Cao — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Jiannan Cao: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiannan-cao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiannan-cao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jiannan Cao # Jiannan Cao Jiannan Cao has 3 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Coreference resolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/), [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 [Jianwei Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianwei-yin/), [Xinyue Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyue-peng/), [Xuhong Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuhong-zhang/). 3 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101317158) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101317158) · [7 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101317158) · [7 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101317158&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiannan-cao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 15 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiannan-cao/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8991](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/90/#star-8991) 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=Jiannan+Cao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jiannan+Cao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jiannan+Cao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jiannan+Cao) ## Affiliations [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2024–2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Coreference resolution · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/coreference-resolution/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [GPU & parallel computing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/gpu-parallel-computing/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiannan-cao/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiannan-cao/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiannan-cao/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Bridging Context Gaps: Leveraging Coreference Resolution for Long Contextual Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2024-bridging-context-gaps-leveraging-coreference/)** *(2024 · 10 citations)* LLMs still struggle with long inputs. When a document uses many pronouns, modifiers and varied noun phrases for the same entities, models lose track of the referents, especially in mid-document passages. The authors propose Long Question Coreference Adaptation (LQCA), a preprocessing pipeline that rewrites the… 2. **[EquiBench: Benchmarking Large Language Models' Reasoning about Program Semantics via Equivalence Checking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wei-2025-equibench-benchmarking-large-language-models/)** *(2025 · 8 citations)* EquiBench asks whether large language models actually grasp what code does or mostly react to how it looks. 3. **[ToolGate: Contract-Grounded and Verified Tool Execution for LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-toolgate-contract-grounded-verified-tool/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* LLM agents that call external APIs usually decide in free-form text when a tool may be used and whether its output can be trusted. ## Co-authors here 12 of 15 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jianwei Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianwei-yin/) ×2 - [Xinyue Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyue-peng/) ×2 - [Xuhong Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuhong-zhang/) ×2 - [Yanming Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanming-liu/) ×2 - [Diyi Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diyi-yang/) - [Hongyu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongyu-chen/) - [Jintao Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jintao-chen/) - [Ke Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ke-wang/) - [Ran Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ran-li/) - [Tianyu Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyu-du/) - [Xinyi Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyi-wang/) - [Xun Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xun-wang/) ## 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/) - [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 15 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiannan-cao/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026