--- title: "Lewei Yao · Huawei Technologies — author profile and papers" description: "Lewei Yao, Huawei Technologies: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lewei-yao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lewei-yao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Lewei Yao # Lewei Yao Lewei Yao has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Enze Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/enze-xie/), [James Tin-Yau Kwok](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-tin-yau-kwok/), [Jincheng Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jincheng-yu/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5027453000) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5027453000) · [32 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5027453000) · [890 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5027453000&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lewei-yao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 106 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lewei-yao/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8192](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/82/#star-8192) 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=Lewei+Yao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Lewei+Yao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Lewei+Yao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Lewei+Yao) ## Affiliations [🏢**Huawei Technologies** Shenzhen · China 2020–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/huawei-technologies/) · [🎓**Hong Kong University of Science and Technology** Hong Kong · China 2021–2024 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🏢**Huawei Technologies** Markham · Canada 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/huawei-technologies-canada/) 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](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/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lewei-yao/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lewei-yao/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[PixArt-α: Fast Training of Diffusion Transformer for Photorealistic Text-to-Image Synthesis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2023-pixart-alpha-fast-training-diffusion/)** *(2023 · 87 citations)* Training state-of-the-art text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models takes thousands of GPU days and hundreds of thousands of dollars. 2. **[AEQ-Bench: Measuring Empathy of Omni-Modal Large Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/luo-2026-aeq-bench-measuring-empathy-omni/)** *(2026)* Omni-modal large models (OLMs) increasingly talk to users through speech, yet evaluations of empathy usually turn audio into transcripts and ignore how something is said. ## 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. **[SM-NAS: Structural-to-Modular Neural Architecture Search for Object Detection ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.09929) arXiv:1911.09929 · no summary yet**Lewei Yao et al.*2019 · 95 citations* 2. [**PixArt-α: Fast Training of Diffusion Transformer for Photorealistic Text-to-Image Synthesis arXiv:2310.00426**Junsong Chen, Jincheng Yu, Chongjian Ge, et al.*2023 · 87 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2023-pixart-alpha-fast-training-diffusion/) 3. **[DetGPT: Detect What You Need via Reasoning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.876/) Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Renjie Pi et al.*2023 · 83 citations* 4. **[AEQ-Bench: Measuring Empathy of Omni-Modal Large Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/luo-2026-aeq-bench-measuring-empathy-omni/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Xuan Luo, Lewei Yao, Lanqing Hong, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Enze Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/enze-xie/) - [James Tin-Yau Kwok](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-tin-yau-kwok/) - [Jincheng Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jincheng-yu/) - [Jing Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jing-li/) - [Kai Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-chen/) - [Lanqing Hong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lanqing-hong/) - [Ping Luo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ping-luo/) - [Ruifeng Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruifeng-xu/) - [Xuan Luo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuan-luo/) - [Yue Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yue-wu/) - [Zhenguo Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhenguo-li/) ## 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](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/) - Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 106 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [18 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lewei-yao/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026