--- title: "Kangrui Wang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Kangrui Wang, Northwestern University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kangrui-wang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kangrui-wang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kangrui Wang # Kangrui Wang Kangrui Wang has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, 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 [Chenhao Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenhao-tan/), [Fan Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fan-zhou/), [Hongyuan Mei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongyuan-mei/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5046827792) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5046827792) · [33 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5046827792) · [162 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5046827792&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kangrui-wang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 112 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kangrui-wang/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7653](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/77/#star-7653) 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=Kangrui+Wang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kangrui+Wang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kangrui+Wang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kangrui+Wang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Northwestern University** Evanston · United States 2025–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northwestern-university/) · [🎓**Beijing Institute of Technology** Beijing · China 2015–2018 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**Optics Valley Laboratory** Wuhan · China 2022–2024 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/01mf47c71) · [🎓**Huazhong University of Science and Technology** Wuhan · China 2022–2024 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🔬**Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics** Wuhan · China 2022–2024 · 4 papers](https://ror.org/03c9ncn37) · [🎓**Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago** Chicago · United States 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/toyota-technological-institute-at-chicago/) · [🎓**University of Warwick** Coventry · United Kingdom 2022–2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-warwick/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 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/) 🧭 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 [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kangrui-wang/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kangrui-wang/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[RAGEN: Understanding Self-Evolution in LLM Agents via Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2025-ragen-understanding-self-evolution-llm/)** *(2025 · 71 citations)* The paper asks how LLM agents can be trained with reinforcement learning to improve through their own experience in interactive settings. 2. **[Language Models Can Improve Event Prediction by Few-Shot Abductive Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2023-language-models-improve-event-prediction/)** *(2023 · 44 citations)* The paper asks whether large language models can help forecast real-world events in time-stamped sequences, such as political interactions between G20 entities, where each event carries text like a news headline. ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**RAGEN: Understanding Self-Evolution in LLM Agents via Multi-Turn Reinforcement Learning arXiv:2504.20073**Zihan Wang, Kangrui Wang, Qineng Wang, et al.*2025 · 71 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2025-ragen-understanding-self-evolution-llm/) 2. **[Language Models Can Improve Event Prediction by Few-Shot Abductive Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2023-language-models-improve-event-prediction/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Xiaoming Shi, Siqiao Xue, Kangrui Wang, et al.*2023 · 44 citations* 3. **[VAGEN: Reinforcing World Model Reasoning for Multi-Turn VLM Agents ↗](https://doi.org/10.52202/085713-5754) neural information processing systems · no summary yet**Kangrui Wang et al.*2025 · 12 citations* 4. **[MindCube: Spatial Mental Modeling from Limited Views ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21458) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Wang, Qineng et al.*2025 · 11 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chenhao Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenhao-tan/) - [Fan Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fan-zhou/) - [Hongyuan Mei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongyuan-mei/) - [James Y. Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-y-zhang/) - [Jun Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jun-zhou/) - [Kefan Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kefan-yu/) - [Linjie Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linjie-li/) - [Qineng Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qineng-wang/) - [Xiaoming Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaoming-shi/) - [Xing Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xing-jin/) - [Zhengyuan Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengyuan-yang/) - [Zihan Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihan-wang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2023/) - neural information processing systems ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 112 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [33 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kangrui-wang/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026