--- title: "Shuntian Yao — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Shuntian Yao, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 9 — affiliations…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuntian-yao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuntian-yao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Shuntian Yao # Shuntian Yao Shuntian Yao 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/); often with [Hanyu Lai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanyu-lai/), [Xiao Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiao-liu/), [Dan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-zhang/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101100713) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2650-3910) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130798860) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101100713) · [28 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101100713) · [476 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101100713&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuntian-yao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 58 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuntian-yao/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6640](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/67/#star-6640) 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=Shuntian+Yao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shuntian+Yao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shuntian+Yao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shuntian+Yao) ## Affiliations [🎓**Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications** Beijing · China 2024–2025 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications/) · [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2024–2025 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) · [🎓**Nanyang Technological University** Singapore · Singapore 2002–2012 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanyang-technological-university/) · [🎓**Yale University** New Haven · United States 1989–1990 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/yale-university/) 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuntian-yao/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuntian-yao/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AutoWebGLM: A Large Language Model-based Web Navigating Agent](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lai-2024-autowebglm-large-language-model-based/)** *(2024 · 96 citations)* Web agents built on LLMs often fail on real websites. Pages are long and noisy, the set of possible browser actions is broad, and open-web tasks are hard to plan. Existing agents also struggle to recover from their own mistakes. The authors address this with AutoWebGLM, an open agent fine-tuned from ChatGLM3-6B. It… 2. **[A Survey of Post-Training Scaling in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lai-2025-survey-post-training-scaling-large/)** *(2025 · 18 citations)* Pre-training scaling, which ties loss to parameter count and token volume, is reaching its limits. High-quality web text is running out, synthetic corpora have unproven value at scale, and the returns on ever-larger compute budgets look doubtful. This survey, by authors from Tsinghua University and Zhipu AI, argues… ## Co-authors here 12 of 15 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hanyu Lai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanyu-lai/) ×2 - [Xiao Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiao-liu/) ×2 - [Dan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-zhang/) - [Hanchen Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanchen-zhang/) - [Hao Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-yu/) - [Jiale Cheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiale-cheng/) - [Jie Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-tang/) - [Minlie Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minlie-huang/) - [Xiaohan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaohan-zhang/) - [Xin Lv](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xin-lv/) - [Yifan Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-xu/) - [Yuxiao Dong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuxiao-dong/) ## 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/) - [ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acm-sigkdd-conference-on-knowledge-discovery-and-data-mining-kdd/): [KDD 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acm-sigkdd-conference-on-knowledge-discovery-and-data-mining-kdd/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 58 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [19 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuntian-yao/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026