--- title: "Louie Hong Yao — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Louie Hong Yao, University of Cincinnati: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/louie-hong-yao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/louie-hong-yao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Louie Hong Yao # Louie Hong Yao Louie Hong Yao has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/); often with [Tianyu Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyu-jiang/), [Yuan Zhuang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuan-zhuang/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5089765171) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6910-2951) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5089765171) · [17 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5089765171) · [20 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5089765171&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/louie-hong-yao/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 1 time in our library · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/131/#star-13024) 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=Louie+Hong+Yao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Louie+Hong+Yao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Louie+Hong+Yao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Louie+Hong+Yao) ## Affiliations [🎓**Virginia Tech** Blacksburg · United States 2022–2026 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/virginia-tech/) · [🎓**University of Cincinnati** Cincinnati · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cincinnati/) 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](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 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/louie-hong-yao/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Rhetorical Questions in LLM Representations: A Linear Probing Study](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yao-2026-rhetorical-questions-llm-representations-linear/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The paper asks how large language models internally encode rhetorical questions, which are asked to persuade or express stance rather than to obtain information. 2. **[Towards Robust Evaluation of Visual Activity Recognition: Resolving Verb Ambiguity with Sense Clustering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yao-2026-robust-evaluation-visual-activity-recognition/)** *(2026)* Exact-match scoring in visual activity recognition gives credit only when a model outputs the single gold verb. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Tianyu Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyu-jiang/) ×2 - [Yuan Zhuang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuan-zhuang/) ## 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/) - [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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1 time (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). Updated 2 November 2026