--- title: "Litu Ou · University of Edinburgh — author profile and papers" description: "Litu Ou, University of Edinburgh: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/litu-ou/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/litu-ou/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Litu Ou # Litu Ou Litu Ou has 2 papers in our library, in 2023, 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 [Hao Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-peng/), [Tushar Khot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tushar-khot/), [Yao Fu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-fu/). 2 papers in our library · 2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5116143453) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0005-8380-1368) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5116143453) · [19 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5116143453) · [63 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5116143453&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/litu-ou/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 319 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/litu-ou/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4232](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/43/#star-4232) 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=Litu+Ou) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Litu+Ou) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Litu+Ou) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Litu+Ou) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2023–2026 · 9 papersEmployment since 2025*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) · [🔬**Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence** Seattle · United States 2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution 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).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 2 papers Litu Ou's papers of 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/litu-ou/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Specializing Smaller Language Models towards Multi-Step Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fu-2023-specializing-smaller-language-models-towards/)** *(2023 · 222 citations)* Chain-of-thought math reasoning is usually thought to appear only in models above roughly 100B parameters, which puts it out of reach for most researchers. 2. **[Chain-of-Thought Hub: A Continuous Effort to Measure Large Language Models' Reasoning Performance](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fu-2023-chain-thought-hub-continuous-effort/)** *(2023 · 69 citations)* Chat-style comparisons make many LLMs look alike, so the authors argue that multi-step reasoning is a better way to separate strong models from weak ones. ## All works 6 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. [**Specializing Smaller Language Models towards Multi-Step Reasoning arXiv:2301.12726**Yao Fu, Hao Peng, Litu Ou, et al.*2023 · 222 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fu-2023-specializing-smaller-language-models-towards/) 2. [**Chain-of-Thought Hub: A Continuous Effort to Measure Large Language Models' Reasoning Performance arXiv:2305.17306**Yao Fu, Litu Ou, Mingyu Chen, et al.*2023 · 69 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fu-2023-chain-thought-hub-continuous-effort/) 3. **[WebSailor: Navigating Super-human Reasoning for Web Agent ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.02592) arXiv:2507.02592 · no summary yet**Kuan Li et al.*2025 · 46 citations* 4. **[MiniCPM4: Ultra-Efficient LLMs on End Devices ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07900) arXiv:2506.07900 · no summary yet**MiniCPM Team et al.*2025 · 22 citations* 5. **[ReSum: Unlocking Long-Horizon Search Intelligence via Context Summarization ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13313) arXiv:2509.13313 · no summary yet**Xixi Wu et al.*2025 · 20 citations* 6. **[BrowseConf: Confidence-Guided Test-Time Scaling for Web Agents ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.21/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 · no summary yet**Litu Ou et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hao Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-peng/) ×2 - [Tushar Khot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tushar-khot/) ×2 - [Yao Fu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-fu/) ×2 - [Ashish Sabharwal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashish-sabharwal/) ## 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 2026 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 319 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [26 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/litu-ou/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026