--- title: "Shaopan Xiong · Alibaba Group — author profile and papers" description: "Shaopan Xiong, Alibaba Group: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaopan-xiong/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaopan-xiong/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Shaopan Xiong # Shaopan Xiong Shaopan Xiong has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, 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/); often with [Weixun Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weixun-wang/), [Gengru Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gengru-chen/), [Jiaheng Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaheng-liu/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5121685541) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5121685541) · [10 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5121685541) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5121685541&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaopan-xiong/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 22 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaopan-xiong/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11442](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/115/#star-11442) 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=Shaopan+Xiong) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shaopan+Xiong) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shaopan+Xiong) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shaopan+Xiong) ## Affiliations [🏢**Alibaba Group** Hangzhou · China 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group/) 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/) · [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/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](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 [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaopan-xiong/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaopan-xiong/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Part I: Tricks or Traps? A Deep Dive into RL for LLM Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2025-part-i-tricks-traps-deep/)** *(2025 · 15 citations)* RL for LLM reasoning has accumulated many optimization tricks, and papers often disagree about them. Examples include group-level vs. batch-level reward normalization (GRPO vs. REINFORCE++), keeping or dropping the standard deviation term (Dr. GRPO), and sequence-level vs. token-level loss aggregation (GRPO vs.… 2. **[ShopSimulator: Evaluating and Exploring RL-Driven LLM Agent for Shopping Assistants](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-shopsimulator-evaluating-exploring-rl-driven/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* LLM-based shopping assistants must clarify vague requests through dialogue, use a shopper's profile and history, and pick the right item among near-identical products. ## 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. [**Part I: Tricks or Traps? A Deep Dive into RL for LLM Reasoning arXiv:2508.08221**Zihe Liu, Jiashun Liu, Yancheng He, et al.*2025 · 15 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2025-part-i-tricks-traps-deep/) 2. **[GEM: A Gym for Agentic LLMs ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01051) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Liu, Zichen et al.*2025 · 6 citations* 3. **[ShopSimulator: Evaluating and Exploring RL-Driven LLM Agent for Shopping Assistants](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-shopsimulator-evaluating-exploring-rl-driven/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Pei Wang, Yanan Wu, Xiaoshuai Song, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Weixun Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weixun-wang/) ×2 - [Gengru Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gengru-chen/) - [Jiaheng Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaheng-liu/) - [Jian Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-hu/) - [Ken Deng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ken-deng/) - [Qi Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qi-liu/) - [Shengyi Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shengyi-huang/) - [Xiaoshuai Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaoshuai-song/) - [Xinyu Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyu-hu/) - [Xuepeng Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuepeng-liu/) - [Yanan Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanan-wu/) - [Yancheng He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yancheng-he/) ## 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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 22 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [9 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaopan-xiong/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026