--- title: "Ruohong Zhang — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Ruohong Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruohong-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruohong-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ruohong Zhang # Ruohong Zhang Ruohong Zhang has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Yiming Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiming-yang/), [Yonatan Bisk](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yonatan-bisk/), [Zhiqing Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiqing-sun/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5037514751) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5037514751) · [15 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5037514751) · [234 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5037514751&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruohong-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 189 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruohong-zhang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6324](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/64/#star-6324) 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=Ruohong+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ruohong+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ruohong+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ruohong+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2020–2025 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**University of California, Davis** Davis · United States 2021–2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-davis/) 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Social Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/social-psychology/) 🧭 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/) · [Vision & language · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruohong-zhang/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruohong-zhang/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[SOTOPIA: Interactive Evaluation for Social Intelligence in Language Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2023-sotopia-interactive-evaluation-social-intelligence/)** *(2023 · 138 citations)* Benchmarks for social intelligence in AI are mostly static, and existing interactive setups tend to cover narrow tasks or lack diverse, goal-driven behavior. 2. **[Improve Vision Language Model Chain-of-thought Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-improve-vision-language-model-chain/)** *(2025 · 42 citations)* Most training data for vision language models (VLMs) pairs images with very brief answers and little explanation. The authors show that this limits chain-of-thought (CoT) ability. Fine-tuning on short ChartQA answers improved direct prediction but barely changed CoT accuracy. 3. **[Direct Preference Optimization of Video Large Multimodal Models from Language Model Reward](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-direct-preference-optimization-video-large/)** *(2025 · 32 citations)* Preference optimization methods like DPO help align language models, but they are hard to use for video LMMs. ## Co-authors here 12 of 19 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Yiming Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiming-yang/) ×2 - [Yonatan Bisk](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yonatan-bisk/) ×2 - [Zhiqing Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiqing-sun/) ×2 - [Alexander G. Hauptmann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-g-hauptmann/) - [Bowen Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-zhang/) - [Chunyuan Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chunyuan-li/) - [Daniel Fried](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-fried/) - [Graham Neubig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/graham-neubig/) - [Hao Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-zhu/) - [Haofei Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haofei-yu/) - [Louis-Philippe Morency](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/louis-philippe-morency/) - [Maarten Sap](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maarten-sap/) ## 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 of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 189 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [53 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruohong-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026