--- title: "Jiayi Zhang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Jiayi Zhang, Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiayi-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiayi-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jiayi Zhang # Jiayi Zhang Jiayi Zhang has 4 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, 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/); often with [Bang Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bang-liu/), [Jiaqi Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaqi-chen/), [Jinlin Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinlin-wang/). 4 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100357305) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7334-4256) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100357305) · [82 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100357305) · [506 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100357305&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiayi-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 144 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiayi-zhang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6608](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/67/#star-6608) 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=Jiayi+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jiayi+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jiayi+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jiayi+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 2021–2026 · 29 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🎓**Hunan University** Changsha · China 2021–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hunan-university/) · [🎓**Worcester Polytechnic Institute** Worcester · United States 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/worcester-polytechnic-institute/) · [🎓**Huazhong University of Science and Technology** Wuhan · China 2024–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🏥**University of Hong Kong - Shenzhen Hospital** Shenzhen · China 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/047w7d678) · [🎓**Yale University** New Haven · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/yale-university/) · [🏢**Xiaomi** Beijing · China 2020–2023 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/xiaomi/) · [🎓**Beihang University** Beijing · China 2017–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beihang-university/) · [🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 2022–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) · [🎓**University of Denver** Denver · United States 2023 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/04w7skc03) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 19 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 · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Information Systems and Management · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/information-systems-and-management/) · [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/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](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 [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiayi-zhang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiayi-zhang/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiayi-zhang/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AFlow: Automating Agentic Workflow Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2024-aflow-automating-agentic-workflow/)** *(2024 · 95 citations)* Agentic workflows for LLMs are structured chains of model calls with instructions, and building them usually takes a lot of manual engineering. 2. **[Data Interpreter: An LLM Agent for Data Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hong-2025-data-interpreter-llm-agent-data/)** *(2025 · 91 citations)* Data science work, such as building ML pipelines, analysing tables or solving maths problems, rarely follows a simple chain of steps. 3. **[Understanding and Mitigating Political Stance Cross-topic Generalization in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-understanding-mitigating-political-stance-cross/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Fine-tuning a large language model on one political topic can shift its stance on unrelated topics as well. 4. **[Concise Math Reasoning via Difficulty-Aware Distillation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2026-concise-math-reasoning-difficulty-aware/)** *(2026)* Distilling reasoning from large models such as DeepSeek-R1 usually gives small students very long chain-of-thought traces. ## Co-authors here 12 of 16 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bang Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bang-liu/) ×3 - [Jiaqi Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaqi-chen/) ×2 - [Jinlin Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinlin-wang/) ×2 - [Sirui Hong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sirui-hong/) ×2 - [Zhaoyang Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhaoyang-yu/) ×2 - [Ceyao Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ceyao-zhang/) - [Derek F. Wong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/derek-f-wong/) - [Di Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/di-wang/) - [Junchao Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junchao-wu/) - [Li Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/li-zhang/) - [Mingchen Zhuge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingchen-zhuge/) - [Shu Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shu-yang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/) ×2: [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/), [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2025/) - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 144 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/jiayi-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026