--- title: "Kai Zheng — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Kai Zheng, Kuaishou: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-zheng/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-zheng/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kai Zheng # Kai Zheng Kai Zheng has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, 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/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Can Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/can-xu/), [Qingfeng Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qingfeng-sun/), [Chen Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-ma/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5032234550) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0006-3822-2815) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5032234550) · [14 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5032234550) · [283 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5032234550&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-zheng/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 655 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-zheng/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2942](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/30/#star-2942) 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=Kai+Zheng) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kai+Zheng) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kai+Zheng) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kai+Zheng) ## Affiliations [🏢**Kuaishou** Beijing · China 2023–2026 · 14 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/kuaishou/) 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 8 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/) · [Education · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/education/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [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/kai-zheng/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-zheng/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-zheng/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[WizardLM: Empowering large pre-trained language models to follow complex instructions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2023-wizardlm-empowering-large-pre-trained/)** *(2023 · 741 citations)* Open-domain instruction data written by people is costly to collect, and it contains few truly hard instructions. 2. **[ReARTeR: Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning with Trustworthy Process Rewarding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2025-rearter-retrieval-augmented-reasoning-trustworthy/)** *(2025 · 22 citations)* Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines still struggle with questions that require several chained reasoning and lookup steps. 3. **[RubricBench: Aligning Model-Generated Rubrics with Human Standards](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2026-rubricbench-aligning-model-generated-rubrics/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* Reward models increasingly judge LLM outputs against rubrics, which are checklists of explicit criteria, to reduce shallow biases such as favoring longer or more polished answers. ## Co-authors here 12 of 19 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Can Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/can-xu/) ×2 - [Qingfeng Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qingfeng-sun/) ×2 - [Chen Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-ma/) - [Chongyang Tao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chongyang-tao/) - [Daxin Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daxin-jiang/) - [Fuyuan Lyu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fuyuan-lyu/) - [Han Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/han-li/) - [Jiazhan Feng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiazhan-feng/) - [Jun Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jun-xu/) - [Pu Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pu-zhao/) - [Qingwei Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qingwei-lin/) - [Qiyuan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qiyuan-zhang/) ## 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 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/): [SIGIR 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-acm-sigir-conference-on-research-and-development-in-information/2025/) - [International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-conference-on-learning-representations-iclr/): [ICLR 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-conference-on-learning-representations-iclr/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 655 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [166 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-zheng/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026