--- title: "Kailai Yang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Kailai Yang, University of Manchester: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 15 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kailai-yang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kailai-yang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kailai Yang # Kailai Yang Kailai Yang has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Sophia Ananiadou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sophia-ananiadou/), [Zhiwei Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiwei-liu/), [Erxue Min](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/erxue-min/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5066983614) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3142-2516) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130803322) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5066983614) · [34 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5066983614) · [1,048 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5066983614&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kailai-yang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 77 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kailai-yang/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8921](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/90/#star-8921) 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=Kailai+Yang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kailai+Yang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kailai+Yang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kailai+Yang) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Manchester** Manchester · United Kingdom 2022–2026 · 29 papersEducationEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-manchester/) · [🎓**Harbin Institute of Technology** Harbin · China 2020–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harbin-institute-of-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 · 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/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Social Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/social-psychology/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kailai-yang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kailai-yang/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Overview of the PsyDefDetect Shared Task at BioNLP 2026: Detecting Levels of Psychological Defense Mechanisms in Supportive Conversations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/na-2026-overview-psydefdetect-shared-task-bionlp/)** *(2026 · 13 citations)* Emotional support dialogue systems have mostly modeled empathy, supporter strategies and affect. They have largely ignored how help-seekers' words reveal psychological defenses, which shape what people disclose and whether they accept help. The PsyDefDetect shared task at BioNLP@ACL 2026 addresses this gap. Systems… 2. **[Selective Preference Optimization via Token-Level Reward Function Estimation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2025-selective-preference-optimization-token-level/)** *(2025 · 8 citations)* Token-level preference alignment for LLMs usually trains on every token, which adds noise and wastes compute. 3. **[Data Mixing Agent: Learning to Re-weight Domains for Continual Pre-training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-data-mixing-agent-learning-re/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Continual pre-training of an LLM on a narrow target field, such as math, often causes catastrophic forgetting of general skills. ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Towards Interpretable Mental Health Analysis with Large Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.370/) Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Kailai Yang et al.*2023 · 208 citations* 2. **[Overview of the PsyDefDetect Shared Task at BioNLP 2026: Detecting Levels of Psychological Defense Mechanisms in Supportive Conversations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/na-2026-overview-psydefdetect-shared-task-bionlp/) [BioNLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bionlp/)**Hongbin Na, Zimu Wang, Zhaoming Chen, et al.*2026 · 13 citations* 3. **[Selective Preference Optimization via Token-Level Reward Function Estimation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2025-selective-preference-optimization-token-level/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Kailai Yang, Zhiwei Liu, Qianqian Xie, et al.*2025 · 8 citations* 4. **[Data Mixing Agent: Learning to Re-weight Domains for Continual Pre-training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-data-mixing-agent-learning-re/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Kailai Yang, Xiao Liu, Lei Ji, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 12 of 21 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Sophia Ananiadou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sophia-ananiadou/) ×2 - [Zhiwei Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiwei-liu/) ×2 - [Erxue Min](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/erxue-min/) - [Hao Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-li/) - [Hongbin Na](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongbin-na/) - [Jimin Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jimin-huang/) - [John Torous](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-torous/) - [Lei Ji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lei-ji/) - [Ling Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ling-chen/) - [Mao Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mao-yang/) - [Peng Cheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peng-cheng/) - [Qianqian Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qianqian-xie/) ## 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/) ×2: [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/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/) - [BioNLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bionlp/): [BioNLP 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bionlp/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 77 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/kailai-yang/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026