--- title: "Liwen Zhang · Nankai University — author profile and papers" description: "Liwen Zhang, Nankai University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 29 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwen-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwen-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Liwen Zhang # Liwen Zhang Liwen Zhang has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/); often with [Fei Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-huang/), [Pengjun Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pengjun-xie/), [Yong Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yong-jiang/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100459599) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3250-9867) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q100992754) · [**h-index 29**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100459599) · [105 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100459599) · [4,191 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100459599&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwen-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 73 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwen-zhang/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7221](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/73/#star-7221) 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=Liwen+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Liwen+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Liwen+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Liwen+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Beihang University** Beijing · China 2012–2026 · 62 papersEducation since 2012Employment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beihang-university/) · [🎓**Nankai University** Tianjin · China 2025–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nankai-university/) · [🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 2022–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) · [🎓**Chang'an University** Xi'an · China 2025–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/05mxya461) · [🎓**Xiangtan University** Xiangtan · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/00xsfaz62) · [🎓**East China University of Science and Technology** Shanghai · China 2020–2025 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/east-china-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**Dalian University of Technology** Dalian · China 2012–2022 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dalian-university-of-technology/) · [🏢**Alibaba Group** George Town · Cayman Islands 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group-cayman-islands/) · [🏢**Alibaba Group** Hangzhou · China 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group/) · [🎓**Shanghai Jiao Tong University** Shanghai · China 2008–2012Education 2008–2012](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shanghai-jiao-tong-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 16 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).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [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/) · [Information Systems · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Summarization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwen-zhang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwen-zhang/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[WebDancer: Towards Autonomous Information Seeking Agency](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2025-webdancer-towards-autonomous-information-seeking/)** *(2025 · 50 citations)* WebDancer addresses how to train, from scratch, an open web agent that can carry out the long, multi-step research associated with systems like Deep Research. 2. **[ReSum: Unlocking Long-Horizon Search Intelligence via Context Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2025-resum-unlocking-long-horizon-search/)** *(2025 · 26 citations)* Web agents built on LLMs often fail on hard multi-hop questions. The ReAct loop keeps adding every search result to the prompt, so the context window fills up before the agent finds the answer. Earlier fixes such as MEM1 or MemAgent change the model's architecture and require full retraining. ReSum avoids this with a… 3. **[BrowseConf: Confidence-Guided Test-Time Scaling for Web Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ou-2026-browseconf-confidence-guided-test-time/)** *(2026)* The paper asks whether LLM-based web search agents can meaningfully report how sure they are after long chains of browsing and reasoning. ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[WebDancer: Towards Autonomous Information Seeking Agency](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2025-webdancer-towards-autonomous-information-seeking/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Jialong Wu, Baixuan Li, Runnan Fang, et al.*2025 · 50 citations* 2. [**ReSum: Unlocking Long-Horizon Search Intelligence via Context Summarization arXiv:2509.13313**Xixi Wu, Kuan Li, Yida Zhao, et al.*2025 · 26 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2025-resum-unlocking-long-horizon-search/) 3. **[BrowseConf: Confidence-Guided Test-Time Scaling for Web Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ou-2026-browseconf-confidence-guided-test-time/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Litu Ou, Kuan Li, Huifeng Yin, et al.*2026* 4. **[WebAnchor: Anchoring Agent Planning to Stabilize Long-Horizon Web Reasoning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.2058/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 · no summary yet**Xinmiao Yu et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 12 of 16 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Fei Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-huang/) ×3 - [Pengjun Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pengjun-xie/) ×3 - [Yong Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yong-jiang/) ×3 - [Dingchu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dingchu-zhang/) ×2 - [Huifeng Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huifeng-yin/) ×2 - [Kuan Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kuan-li/) ×2 - [Litu Ou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/litu-ou/) ×2 - [Xixi Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xixi-wu/) ×2 - [Zhongwang Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhongwang-zhang/) ×2 - [Jialong Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jialong-wu/) - [Jingren Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingren-zhou/) - [Rui Ye](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rui-ye/) ## 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/) - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2025/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 73 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [22 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwen-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026