--- title: "Ke Yang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Ke Yang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ke-yang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ke-yang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ke Yang # Ke Yang Ke Yang has 4 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Anthony Rios](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anthony-rios/), [ChengXiang Zhai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengxiang-zhai/), [Erfan Nourbakhsh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/erfan-nourbakhsh/). 4 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5139835495) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5139835495) · [4 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139835495) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139835495&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ke-yang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 29 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ke-yang/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8456](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/85/#star-8456) 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=Ke+Yang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ke+Yang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ke+Yang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ke+Yang) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) 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 9 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 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/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/molecular-biology/) · [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/) 🧭 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/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ke-yang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ke-yang/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Persona-DB: Efficient Large Language Model Personalization for Response Prediction with Collaborative Data Refinement](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2025-persona-db-efficient-large-language/)** *(2025 · 29 citations)* The paper addresses context efficiency in retrieval-augmented LLM personalization: how to keep predictions of a user's reactions accurate while placing fewer retrieved items into the prompt. 2. **[When Retrieval Doesn't Help: A Large-Scale Study of Biomedical RAG](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nourbakhsh-2026-when-retrieval-doesn-t-help/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is often recommended for medical question answering, and earlier benchmarks such as MIRAGE/MedRAG reported large gains. 3. **[BiasGRPO: Stabilizing Bias Mitigation in High-Variance Reward Landscapes via Group-Relative Policy Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/reddy-2026-biasgrpo-stabilizing-bias-mitigation-high/)** *(2026)* Reducing social bias in LLMs is hard to optimise because no single "correct" unbiased answer exists, so reward signals are noisy and subjective. 4. **[TRACER: Early Failure Detection for Task-Oriented Dialogue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nourbakhsh-2026-tracer-early-failure-detection-task/)** *(2026)* Most evaluation of task-oriented dialogue (TOD) systems judges a conversation only after it ends, when it is too late to rescue it. ## 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. **[Persona-DB: Efficient Large Language Model Personalization for Response Prediction with Collaborative Data Refinement](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2025-persona-db-efficient-large-language/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Chenkai Sun, Ke Yang, Revanth Gangi Reddy, et al.*2025 · 29 citations* 2. **[When Retrieval Doesn't Help: A Large-Scale Study of Biomedical RAG](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nourbakhsh-2026-when-retrieval-doesn-t-help/) [BioNLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bionlp/)**Erfan Nourbakhsh, Rocky Slavin, Ke Yang, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 3. **[BiasGRPO: Stabilizing Bias Mitigation in High-Variance Reward Landscapes via Group-Relative Policy Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/reddy-2026-biasgrpo-stabilizing-bias-mitigation-high/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Saket Reddy, Ke Yang, ChengXiang Zhai*2026* 4. **[TRACER: Early Failure Detection for Task-Oriented Dialogue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nourbakhsh-2026-tracer-early-failure-detection-task/) [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/)**Erfan Nourbakhsh, Rocky Slavin, Ke Yang, et al.*2026* 5. **[Knowledge-Infused Multi-Bit Watermarking for RAG Knowledge Bases ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1066/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 · no summary yet**Ke Yang et al.*2026* 6. **[You Can Have a Second Chance: Unbiased and Multi-bit Watermarking for Diffusion Language Models with Regret-based Remasking ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1297/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Ke Yang et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Anthony Rios](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anthony-rios/) ×2 - [ChengXiang Zhai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengxiang-zhai/) ×2 - [Erfan Nourbakhsh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/erfan-nourbakhsh/) ×2 - [Rocky Slavin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rocky-slavin/) ×2 - [Chenkai Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenkai-sun/) - [Heng Ji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heng-ji/) - [Hou Pong Chan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hou-pong-chan/) - [Yi Fung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-fung/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [BioNLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bionlp/): [BioNLP 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bionlp/2026/) - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2025/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - [Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/): [SIGDIAL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/sigdial/2026/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 - Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 29 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ke-yang/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026