--- title: "Jianshu Zhang — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Jianshu Zhang, Northwestern University: 5 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianshu-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianshu-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jianshu Zhang # Jianshu Zhang Jianshu Zhang has 5 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Renjie Pi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/renjie-pi/), [Boyang Xue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boyang-xue/), [Dong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dong-yu/). 5 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5139813217) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5139813217) · [4 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139813217) · [4 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139813217&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 5 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianshu-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 54 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianshu-zhang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6980](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/70/#star-6980) 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=Jianshu+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jianshu+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jianshu+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jianshu+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🏢**IFlyTek** Hefei · China 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/iflytek/) · [🎓**Northwestern University** Evanston · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northwestern-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## 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).[Computer Science · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 3 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/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Reasoning · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianshu-zhang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianshu-zhang/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianshu-zhang/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MLLM-Protector: Ensuring MLLM's Safety without Hurting Performance](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pi-2024-mllm-protector-ensuring-mllm-s/)** *(2024 · 58 citations)* Multimodal large language models such as LLaVA can be steered into harmful output by malicious images, even when the same request in plain text would be refused. 2. **[VLM2-Bench: A Closer Look at How Well VLMs Implicitly Link Explicit Matching Visual Cues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-vlm2-bench-closer-look-how/)** *(2025 · 12 citations)* The paper asks whether vision-language models can do something people do routinely: recognise that the same object or person appears in several images or video frames by comparing visual traits, without knowing who or what it is. 3. **[Step Potential Advantage Estimation: Harnessing Intermediate Confidence and Correctness for Efficient Mathematical Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2026-step-potential-advantage-estimation-harnessing/)** *(2026 · 11 citations)* Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) trains long chain-of-thought models using only a final correct/incorrect signal. 4. **[ProgressLM: Towards Progress Reasoning in Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-progresslm-progress-reasoning-vision-language/)** *(2026 · 7 citations)* The paper asks whether vision-language models can judge how far a task has advanced when they see only one intermediate frame plus a demonstration of the full task. 5. **[WebAggregator: Enhancing Compositional Reasoning Capabilities of Deep Research Agent Foundation Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-webaggregator-enhancing-compositional-reasoning-capabilities/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Deep Research agents need more than retrieval. They must combine scattered, heterogeneous evidence through multi-step reasoning. Existing training and evaluation resources mostly reward locating a single entity, so agents learn to call tools often instead of reasoning carefully. ## Co-authors here 12 of 21 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Renjie Pi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/renjie-pi/) ×2 - [Boyang Xue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boyang-xue/) - [Dong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dong-yu/) - [Fei Qing Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-qing-wu/) - [Haitao Mi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haitao-mi/) - [Han Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/han-liu/) - [Hanze Dong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanze-dong/) - [Hongming Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongming-zhang/) - [Hongru Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongru-wang/) - [Jipeng Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jipeng-zhang/) - [Jun-Yu Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jun-yu-ma/) - [Paul Pu Liang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-pu-liang/) ## 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/) ×3: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) ×2, [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2024/) - [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 54 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [15 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianshu-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026