--- title: "Lin Yan · Northwest University — author profile and papers" description: "Lin Yan, Northwest University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 21 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lin-yan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lin-yan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Lin Yan # Lin Yan Lin Yan has 3 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Code & programming languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/); often with [Chao Xin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chao-xin/), [Guanlin Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guanlin-liu/), [Yu Yue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-yue/). 3 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5067119069) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-8572) · [**h-index 21**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5067119069) · [95 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5067119069) · [1,207 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5067119069&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lin-yan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 58 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lin-yan/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10356](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/104/#star-10356) 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=Lin+Yan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Lin+Yan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Lin+Yan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Lin+Yan) ## Affiliations [🎓**Northwest University** Xi'an · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northwest-university/) · [🏢**Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA** Rahway · United States 2004–2025 · 26 papers](https://ror.org/02891sr49) · [🎓**Beihang University** Beijing · China 2005–2015 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beihang-university/) · [🎓**Yan'an University** Shanxi · China 2021–2023 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/01dyr7034) · [🎓**Hunan University of Science and Technology** Xiangtan · China 2009–2014 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/02m9vrb24) · [🎓**Jiangxi Agricultural University** Nanchang · China 2011 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/00dc7s858) · [🎓**North University of China** Taiyuan · China 2021–2022 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/047bp1713) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Forestry** Beijing · China 2019–2021 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/0360dkv71) · [🔬**Institute of Chemical Industry of Forest Products** Nanjing · China 2019–2021 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/01th5x258) · [🎓**Shenyang University of Chemical Technology** Shenyang · China 2016–2019 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03dbpdh75) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 14 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Science Applications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-science-applications/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Code & programming languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lin-yan/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lin-yan/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Exploring Data Scaling Trends and Effects in Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2025-exploring-data-scaling-trends-effects/)** *(2025 · 12 citations)* This ByteDance Seed study asks why adding more prompt data to PPO-based RLHF stops improving large language models. 2. **[Process Supervision-Guided Policy Optimization for Code Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dai-2024-process-supervision-guided-policy-optimization/)** *(2024 · 12 citations)* RL from unit-test feedback helps LLMs write better code, but the reward is sparse. A single pass/fail signal arrives only after the whole program runs, and a program that fails every test gives the model nothing to learn from. The authors (ByteDance and Oregon State University) propose Process Supervision-Guided… 3. **[PAG: Multi-Turn Reinforced LLM Self-Correction with Policy as Generative Verifier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jiang-2025-pag-multi-turn-reinforced-llm/)** *(2025 · 8 citations)* LLMs can write elaborate reasoning but are poor at judging whether their own answers are right. Existing fixes have drawbacks. A separate verifier model adds cost. Multi-stage RL pipelines such as SCoRe need a warm-up phase to avoid model collapse, where the second attempt barely differs from the first. PAG instead… ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chao Xin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chao-xin/) ×2 - [Guanlin Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guanlin-liu/) ×2 - [Yu Yue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-yue/) ×2 - [Zheng Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zheng-wu/) ×2 - [Liang Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liang-huang/) - [Ning Dai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ning-dai/) - [Renjie Zheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/renjie-zheng/) - [Ruofei Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruofei-zhu/) - [Wei Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-shen/) - [Wenlei Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenlei-shi/) - [Wenyuan Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenyuan-xu/) - [Xing Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xing-jin/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 58 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [32 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lin-yan/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026