--- title: "Kexun Zhang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Kexun Zhang, Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kexun-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kexun-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kexun Zhang # Kexun Zhang Kexun Zhang has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Anirudh Goyal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anirudh-goyal/), [Danqing Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danqing-wang/), [Lei Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lei-li/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5053856461) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5053856461) · [62 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5053856461) · [600 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5053856461&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kexun-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 46 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kexun-zhang/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10011](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/101/#star-10011) 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=Kexun+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kexun+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kexun+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kexun+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2023–2026 · 20 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🏥**Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University** Guiyang · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/02kstas42) · [🎓**Fudan University** Shanghai · China 2019–2025 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/fudan-university/) · [🎓**China Agricultural University** Beijing · China 2022 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/china-agricultural-university/) · [🎓**University of California, Santa Barbara** Santa Barbara · United States 2023–2025 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-barbara/) · [🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 2021–2022 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) · [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2004–2006 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) · [🎓**University of California San Diego** San Diego · United States 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-san-diego/) · [🔬**State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering** Shanghai 2019–2020 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/01n3rg866) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science Applications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-science-applications/) · [Software · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kexun-zhang/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kexun-zhang/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[SWE-Search: Enhancing Software Agents with Monte Carlo Tree Search and Iterative Refinement](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/antoniades-2024-swe-search-enhancing-software-agents/)** *(2024 · 22 citations)* Most LLM-based coding agents move through a task in a single forward pass. They cannot easily abandon a poor line of attack and try a different one. SWE-Search tackles this for repository-level bug fixing by combining Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) with LLM self-evaluation. It builds on the moatless-tools framework… 2. **[ALGO: Synthesizing Algorithmic Programs with LLM-Generated Oracle Verifiers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2023-algo-synthesizing-algorithmic-programs-llm/)** *(2023 · 19 citations)* LLMs handle code generation well when a task spells out exactly what to implement. They do much worse on competitive-programming problems, where the model must first choose an efficient algorithm, and their output still needs human checking. ALGO tackles both issues. It builds on an observation: writing a slow… ## 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. [**SWE-Search: Enhancing Software Agents with Monte Carlo Tree Search and Iterative Refinement arXiv:2410.20285**Antonis Antoniades, Albert Orwall, Kexun Zhang, et al.*2024 · 22 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/antoniades-2024-swe-search-enhancing-software-agents/) 2. [**ALGO: Synthesizing Algorithmic Programs with LLM-Generated Oracle Verifiers arXiv:2305.14591**Kexun Zhang, Danqing Wang, Jingtao Xia, et al.*2023 · 19 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2023-algo-synthesizing-algorithmic-programs-llm/) 3. **[A Study of Syntactic Multi-Modality in Non-Autoregressive Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.126/) Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yet**Kexun Zhang et al.*2022 · 11 citations* 4. **[Focus on the Action: Learning to Highlight and Summarize Jointly for Email To-Do Items Summarization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-acl.323/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022 · no summary yet**Kexun Zhang, Jiaao Chen, Diyi Yang*2022 · 9 citations* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Anirudh Goyal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anirudh-goyal/) - [Danqing Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/danqing-wang/) - [Lei Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lei-li/) - [William Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-wang/) - [William Yang Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-yang-wang/) - [Yuxi Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuxi-xie/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022 - Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 46 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [16 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kexun-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026