--- title: "Shaowu Zhang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Shaowu Zhang, Dalian University of Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaowu-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaowu-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Shaowu Zhang # Shaowu Zhang Shaowu Zhang has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Hongfei Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongfei-lin/), [Huayang Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huayang-li/), [Jingjie Zeng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingjie-zeng/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101820549) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0796-2750) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101820549) · [61 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101820549) · [561 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101820549&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaowu-zhang/#papers) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13901](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/140/#star-13901) 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=Shaowu+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shaowu+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shaowu+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shaowu+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Dalian University of Technology** Dalian · China 2012–2026 · 40 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dalian-university-of-technology/) · [🎓**PLA Information Engineering University** Zhengzhou · China 2007–2011 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/00mm1qk40) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 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 7 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [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/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaowu-zhang/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[CogEvolve: A Multimodal Benchmark for Evaluating Relational Reasoning in Semantic Extension](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zeng-2026-cogevolve-multimodal-benchmark-evaluating-relational/)** *(2026)* Word meanings tend to grow in a set direction: a concrete, embodied core sense gives rise to abstract senses through metaphor and metonymy (bread crust leads to Earth's crust). 2. **[Mechanistic Insights into Deferred Semantic Drift in LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zeng-2026-mechanistic-insights-into-deferred-semantic/)** *(2026)* Decoder-only LLMs cannot revise a token's hidden state after computing it. This raises a question: how do they handle an ambiguous word whose sense becomes clear only from later context? Zeng et al. use metaphors as a testbed, such as "key" meaning a physical tool or a figurative means. They propose Deferred Semantic… ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hongfei Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongfei-lin/) ×2 - [Huayang Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huayang-li/) ×2 - [Jingjie Zeng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingjie-zeng/) ×2 - [Liang Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liang-yang/) ×2 - [Yuanyuan Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuanyuan-sun/) ×2 ## 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/) Updated 2 November 2026