--- title: "Runnan Fang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Runnan Fang, Tencent: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/runnan-fang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/runnan-fang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Runnan Fang # Runnan Fang Runnan Fang has 4 papers in our library, in 2025–2026; often with [Pengjun Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pengjun-xie/), [Fei Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-huang/), [Jialong Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jialong-wu/). 4 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5105507411) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5105507411) · [29 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5105507411) · [62 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5105507411&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/runnan-fang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 115 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/runnan-fang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6353](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/64/#star-6353) 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=Runnan+Fang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Runnan+Fang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Runnan+Fang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Runnan+Fang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 2024–2026 · 16 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) · [🏢**Alibaba Group** Hangzhou · China 2024–2026 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group/) · [🏢**Alibaba Group** George Town · Cayman Islands 2025–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group-cayman-islands/) · [🎓**Westlake University** Hangzhou · China 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/westlake-university/) · [🏢**Tencent** Shenzhen · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/tencent/) 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 3 works](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/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Inverted index · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/inverted-index/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/runnan-fang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/runnan-fang/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[WebWalker: Benchmarking LLMs in Web Traversal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2025-webwalker-benchmarking-llms-web-traversal/)** *(2025 · 72 citations)* Search-engine retrieval in standard RAG pipelines tends to return surface-level pages. Answers buried several clicks deep inside a website are often missed. The authors call this problem Web Traversal: starting from a site's root URL, an agent must click through subpages to find the information a query needs. To… 2. **[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. 3. **[OmniThink: Expanding Knowledge Boundaries in Machine Writing through Thinking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xi-2025-omnithink-expanding-knowledge-boundaries-machine/)** *(2025 · 14 citations)* LLM-based long-form writing usually depends on retrieval-augmented generation, but standard retrieval tends to return shallow, repetitive, and unoriginal material. 4. **[U-Fold: Dynamic Intent-Aware Context Folding for User-Centric Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/su-2026-u-fold-dynamic-intent-aware/)** *(2026)* LLM agents that call tools during long conversations with users quickly run out of context. Existing context-folding methods address this by compressing earlier history, but they were designed for tasks with one goal. In multi-turn, user-facing dialogues they fail in two ways: they permanently drop small but decisive… ## Co-authors here 12 of 15 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Pengjun Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pengjun-xie/) ×4 - [Fei Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-huang/) ×3 - [Jialong Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jialong-wu/) ×3 - [Wenbiao Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenbiao-yin/) ×3 - [Yong Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yong-jiang/) ×3 - [Zekun Xi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zekun-xi/) ×3 - [Ningyu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ningyu-zhang/) ×2 - [Deyu Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deyu-zhou/) - [Dingchu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dingchu-zhang/) - [Huajun Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huajun-chen/) - [Linhai Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linhai-zhang/) - [Liwen Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liwen-zhang/) ## 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 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) - [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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 115 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [32 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/runnan-fang/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026