--- title: "Jifan Yu — author profile and papers · Dialogue systems" description: "Jifan Yu, State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 13…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jifan-yu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jifan-yu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jifan Yu # Jifan Yu Jifan Yu has 4 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Daniel Zhang-Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-zhang-li/), [Huiqin Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huiqin-liu/), [Juanzi Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/juanzi-li/). 4 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5038246814) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3430-4048) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130868331) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5038246814) · [89 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5038246814) · [776 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5038246814&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jifan-yu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 199 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jifan-yu/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6012](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/61/#star-6012) 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=Jifan+Yu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jifan+Yu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jifan+Yu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jifan+Yu) ## Affiliations [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2018–2026 · 78 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) · [🎓**Beihang University** Beijing · China 2023–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beihang-university/) · [🔬**State Key Laboratory of Virtual Reality Technology and Systems** Beijing 2023–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/0009eea46) · [🔬**Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology** Beijing · China 2021–2023 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/beijing-national-research-center-for-information-science-and-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 7 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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Software · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jifan-yu/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jifan-yu/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jifan-yu/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jifan-yu/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Simulating Classroom Education with LLM-Empowered Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-simulating-classroom-education-llm-empowered/)** *(2025 · 84 citations)* SimClass is a framework that tests whether a group of LLM-driven agents can run a convincing virtual classroom with real learners. 2. **[CharacterGLM: Customizing Chinese Conversational AI Characters with Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2023-characterglm-customizing-chinese-conversational-ai/)** *(2023 · 60 citations)* General-purpose LLMs are mostly trained on short, task-oriented exchanges. As a result, they handle long social conversations poorly, especially when asked to stay in a specific persona. Prompting them to role-play tends to lose consistency and liveliness over many turns. Classic persona-based dialogue covers only… 3. **[SpreadsheetBench: Towards Challenging Real World Spreadsheet Manipulation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2024-spreadsheetbench-towards-challenging-real-world/)** *(2024 · 21 citations)* SpreadsheetBench tackles a weakness in how LLM-based spreadsheet assistants are evaluated. Earlier benchmarks rely on synthetic or crowdsourced instructions, simple single-table sheets, and a single check per task. The authors collected solved questions from four Excel help forums (ExcelForum, Chandoo, MrExcel… 4. **[From Knowing to Teaching: Scaffolding Pedagogical Decisions for LLM Agent](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-knowing-teaching-scaffolding-pedagogical-decisions/)** *(2026)* LLMs know a great deal about many subjects, but they struggle to turn that knowledge into good lessons. Their generated lessons look tidy yet misuse sources, skip foundational steps, and quiz learners on material never presented. The authors frame this as a knowing-teaching gap, drawing on Shulman's notion of… ## All works 6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Subgraph Retrieval Enhanced Model for Multi-hop Knowledge Base Question Answering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.396/) Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Jing Zhang et al.*2022 · 192 citations* 2. **[MOOCCube: A Large-scale Data Repository for NLP Applications in MOOCs ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.285/) Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Jifan Yu et al.*2020 · 155 citations* 3. **[Simulating Classroom Education with LLM-Empowered Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-simulating-classroom-education-llm-empowered/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Zheyuan Zhang, Daniel Zhang-Li, Jifan Yu, et al.*2025 · 84 citations* 4. [**CharacterGLM: Customizing Chinese Conversational AI Characters with Large Language Models arXiv:2311.16832**Jinfeng Zhou, Zhuang Chen, Dazhen Wan, et al.*2023 · 60 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2023-characterglm-customizing-chinese-conversational-ai/) 5. **[SpreadsheetBench: Towards Challenging Real World Spreadsheet Manipulation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2024-spreadsheetbench-towards-challenging-real-world/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Zeyao Ma, Bohan Zhang, Jing Zhang, et al.*2024 · 21 citations* 6. **[From Knowing to Teaching: Scaffolding Pedagogical Decisions for LLM Agent](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-knowing-teaching-scaffolding-pedagogical-decisions/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yucheng Wang, Shen Yang, Jifan Yu, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 12 of 25 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Daniel Zhang-Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-zhang-li/) ×2 - [Huiqin Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huiqin-liu/) ×2 - [Juanzi Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/juanzi-li/) ×2 - [Lei Hou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lei-hou/) ×2 - [Xiaohan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaohan-zhang/) ×2 - [Bin Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bin-xu/) - [Bohan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bohan-zhang/) - [Bosi Wen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bosi-wen/) - [Haoxuan Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haoxuan-li/) - [Jie Cao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-cao/) - [Jie Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-tang/) - [Jinfeng Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinfeng-zhou/) ## 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/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2025/) - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 199 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [38 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jifan-yu/cited-by/). 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