--- title: "Mingyang Zhang · Xidian University — author profile and papers" description: "Mingyang Zhang, Xidian University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 34 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingyang-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingyang-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mingyang Zhang # Mingyang Zhang Mingyang Zhang has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, 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/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Cheng Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-li/), [Feng Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/feng-chen/), [Michael Bendersky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-bendersky/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100432821) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9768-516X) · [**h-index 34**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100432821) · [174 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100432821) · [4,103 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100432821&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingyang-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2,265 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingyang-zhang/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7865](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/79/#star-7865) 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=Mingyang+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mingyang+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mingyang+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mingyang+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Xidian University** Xi'an · China 2015–2026 · 79 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/xidian-university/) · [🎓**Zhejiang University of Technology** Hangzhou · China 2019–2026 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university-of-technology/) · [🎓**Southeast University** Nanjing · China 2016–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/southeast-university-cn/) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2025–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🎓**Northeastern University** Shenyang · China 2017–2025 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university-cn/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2020–2024 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**National University of Singapore** Singapore · Singapore 2018–2022 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-singapore/) · [🎓**Huazhong University of Science and Technology** Wuhan · China 2022–2025 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**Harbin Institute of Technology** Harbin · China 2021–2023 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harbin-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Hebei University** Baoding · China 2018–2023 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/01p884a79) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 29 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).[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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [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.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [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/mingyang-zhang/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingyang-zhang/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Bridging the Preference Gap between Retrievers and LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ke-2024-bridging-preference-gap-between-retrievers/)** *(2024 · 46 citations)* Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems usually pair a retriever built around human reading habits, where rank order matters most, with an LLM that may want its context assembled differently. 2. **[Less is More: Improving LLM Reasoning with Minimal Test-Time Intervention](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-less-is-more-improving-llm/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Test-time scaling techniques such as self-consistency or tree search make LLMs reason better, but they pay for it with heavy extra inference compute. ## All works 3 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. **[Group Sparse Representation With WaveNet Vocoder Adaptation for Spectrum and Prosody Conversion ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/taslp.2019.2910637) IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing · no summary yet**Berrak Şişman, Mingyang Zhang, Haizhou Li*2019 · 54 citations* 2. **[Bridging the Preference Gap between Retrievers and LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ke-2024-bridging-preference-gap-between-retrievers/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Zixuan Ke, Weize Kong, Cheng Li, et al.*2024 · 46 citations* 3. **[Less is More: Improving LLM Reasoning with Minimal Test-Time Intervention](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-less-is-more-improving-llm/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Zhen Yang, Mingyang Zhang, Feng Chen, et al.*2026 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Cheng Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-li/) - [Feng Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/feng-chen/) - [Michael Bendersky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-bendersky/) - [Qiaozhu Mei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qiaozhu-mei/) - [Zhen Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-yang/) ## 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 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2024/) - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2,265 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [457 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingyang-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026