--- title: "Qinkai Yu · University of Liverpool — author profile and papers" description: "Qinkai Yu, University of Liverpool: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qinkai-yu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qinkai-yu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Qinkai Yu # Qinkai Yu Qinkai Yu has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, 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 [Haiyan Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haiyan-zhao/), [Mengnan Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mengnan-du/), [Mingyu Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingyu-jin/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101250371) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6526-0928) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101250371) · [21 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101250371) · [159 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101250371&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qinkai-yu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 116 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qinkai-yu/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6126](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/62/#star-6126) 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=Qinkai+Yu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Qinkai+Yu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Qinkai+Yu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Qinkai+Yu) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Liverpool** Liverpool · United Kingdom 2023–2026 · 11 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-liverpool/) · [🎓**University of Exeter** Exeter · United Kingdom 2024–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-exeter/) · [🎓**King Abdullah University of Science and Technology** Jeddah · Saudi Arabia 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/king-abdullah-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🏥**Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital** Liverpool · United Kingdom 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/000849h34) 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).[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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 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 · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qinkai-yu/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qinkai-yu/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Impact of Reasoning Step Length on Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jin-2024-impact-reasoning-step-length-large/)** *(2024 · 119 citations)* Chain of Thought (CoT) prompting helps large language models reason, but it is unclear which part of a CoT prompt drives the gains. 2. **[Exploring Concept Depth: How Large Language Models Acquire Knowledge and Concept at Different Layers?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jin-2025-exploring-concept-depth-how-large/)** *(2025 · 36 citations)* The paper asks where inside a large language model knowledge of different difficulty becomes linearly readable. ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Haiyan Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haiyan-zhao/) ×2 - [Mengnan Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mengnan-du/) ×2 - [Mingyu Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingyu-jin/) ×2 - [Wenyue Hua](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenyue-hua/) ×2 - [Yanda Meng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanda-meng/) ×2 - [Dong Shu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dong-shu/) - [Fan Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fan-yang/) - [Jingyuan Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingyuan-huang/) - [Kai Mei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-mei/) - [Kaize Ding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaize-ding/) - [Qingcheng Zeng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qingcheng-zeng/) - [Yongfeng Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yongfeng-zhang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2025/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 116 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [29 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qinkai-yu/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026