--- title: "Qinghua Zhao — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Qinghua Zhao, University of Copenhagen: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 25 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qinghua-zhao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qinghua-zhao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Qinghua Zhao # Qinghua Zhao Qinghua Zhao has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Hao Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-yang/), [Lei Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lei-li/), [Xinyu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyu-chen/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5066364830) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3115-3128) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88467524) · [**h-index 25**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5066364830) · [224 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5066364830) · [2,303 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5066364830&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qinghua-zhao/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 1 time in our library · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13094](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/131/#star-13094) 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=Qinghua+Zhao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Qinghua+Zhao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Qinghua+Zhao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Qinghua+Zhao) ## Affiliations [🏥**The Affiliated Yongchuan Hospital of Chongqing Medical University** Chongqing · China 2008–2026 · 102 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/hospitals/the-affiliated-yongchuan-hospital-of-chongqing-medical-university/) · [🎓**Chongqing Medical University** Chongqing · China 2008–2026 · 12 papers*current*](https://ror.org/017z00e58) · [🎓**Beihang University** Beijing · China 2022–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beihang-university/) · [🏥**Chinese PLA General Hospital** Beijing · China 2010–2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://ror.org/04gw3ra78) · [🎓**Hefei University** Hefei · China 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hefei-university/) · [🎓**University of Copenhagen** Copenhagen · Denmark 2023–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-copenhagen/) · [🏥**Liaocheng People's Hospital** Liaocheng · China 2009–2023 · 12 papers](https://ror.org/052vn2478) · [🎓**Wuhan Textile University** Wuhan · China 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/02jgsf398) · [🎓**Taiyuan University of Technology** Taiyuan · China 2022–2023 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03kv08d37) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 8 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 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.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qinghua-zhao/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[How Chain-of-Thought Works? Tracing Information Flow from Decoding, Projection, and Activation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-how-chain-thought-works-tracing/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting reliably improves LLM reasoning, but earlier explanations of why it works were mostly intuitive and not tied to model internals. 2. **[A Layer-wise Analysis of Supervised Fine-Tuning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-layer-wise-analysis-supervised-fine/)** *(2026)* The paper asks where, across a model's depth, supervised fine-tuning (SFT) actually changes an LLM. Standard LoRA spreads its updates evenly over all layers, which assumes every layer matters equally for alignment. The authors compare base and SFT checkpoints of decoder-only models from 1B to 32B parameters (OLMo2… ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hao Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-yang/) - [Lei Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lei-li/) - [Xinyu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyu-chen/) ## 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