--- title: "Lihao Sun — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Lihao Sun, Microsoft: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lihao-sun/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lihao-sun/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Lihao Sun # Lihao Sun Lihao Sun has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, 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/); often with [Bo Qiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-qiao/), [Dongmei Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongmei-zhang/), [Hang Dong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hang-dong/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5133148773) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5133148773) · [4 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5133148773) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5133148773&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lihao-sun/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 11 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lihao-sun/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9704](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/98/#star-9704) 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=Lihao+Sun) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Lihao+Sun) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Lihao+Sun) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Lihao+Sun) ## Affiliations [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) · [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/) · [Computer Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 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 [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lihao-sun/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lihao-sun/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Aligned but Blind: Alignment Increases Implicit Bias by Reducing Awareness of Race](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2025-aligned-but-blind-alignment-increases/)** *(2025 · 10 citations)* Value-aligned language models often look fair when asked directly about race, yet still show stereotypes in indirect word-association tests. 2. **[LLM Reasoning as Trajectories: Step-Specific Representation Geometry and Correctness Signals](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2026-llm-reasoning-as-trajectories-step/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* The paper asks whether chain-of-thought reasoning in an LLM follows an organized path through hidden-state space, and whether that path can be used to diagnose and steer reasoning. ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bo Qiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-qiao/) - [Dongmei Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongmei-zhang/) - [Hang Dong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hang-dong/) - [Qingwei Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qingwei-lin/) - [Saravan Rajmohan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saravan-rajmohan/) - [Valentin Hofmann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valentin-hofmann/) ## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/), [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 11 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lihao-sun/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026