--- title: "Liangyue Li · Alibaba Group — author profile and papers" description: "Liangyue Li, Alibaba Group: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liangyue-li/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liangyue-li/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Liangyue Li # Liangyue Li Liangyue Li has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, 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/), [Efficient models & compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/); often with [Zulong Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zulong-chen/), [Chenglin Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenglin-li/), [Defu Lian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/defu-lian/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5014174145) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7630-8851) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5014174145) · [62 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5014174145) · [631 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5014174145&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liangyue-li/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 11 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liangyue-li/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9809](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/99/#star-9809) 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=Liangyue+Li) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Liangyue+Li) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Liangyue+Li) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Liangyue+Li) ## Affiliations [🏢**Alibaba Group** Hangzhou · China 2021–2026 · 23 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group/) · [🎓**Arizona State University** Tempe · United States 2014–2018 · 16 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/arizona-state-university/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2019–2021 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**Northeastern University** Boston · United States 2013–2014 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university/) · [🏢**Alibaba Group** San Mateo · United States 2021–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group-united-states/) 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).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Efficient models & compression · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) · [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 [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liangyue-li/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liangyue-li/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Mixed Distillation Helps Smaller Language Model Better Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2023-mixed-distillation-helps-smaller-language/)** *(2023 · 11 citations)* Large language models reason well but are expensive to run. Earlier work on distilling reasoning into compact models mostly transfers only natural-language Chain of Thought (CoT). This paper argues that Program of Thought (PoT), where the model writes executable Python, is a valuable extra training signal. The… 2. **[Learning from Emptiness: De-biasing Listwise Rerankers with Content-Agnostic Probability Calibration](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lv-2026-learning-emptiness-de-biasing-listwise/)** *(2026)* Generative listwise rerankers built on LLMs suffer from position bias: their output depends on where a document sits in the prompt, not only on its relevance. ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Zulong Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zulong-chen/) ×2 - [Chenglin Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenglin-li/) - [Defu Lian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/defu-lian/) - [Enhong Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/enhong-chen/) - [Hang Lv](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hang-lv/) - [Hao Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-wang/) - [Hongchao Gu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongchao-gu/) - [Qianglong Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qianglong-chen/) - [Yicheng Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yicheng-li/) - [Yin Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yin-zhang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 11 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liangyue-li/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026