--- title: "Tao Feng · Zhejiang University — author profile and papers" description: "Tao Feng, Zhejiang University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tao-feng/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tao-feng/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tao Feng # Tao Feng Tao Feng has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Chenglin Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenglin-li/), [Fei Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-yu/), [Gholamreza Haffari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gholamreza-haffari/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100678149) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0001-9490-7353) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130935588) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100678149) · [67 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100678149) · [306 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100678149&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tao-feng/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 47 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tao-feng/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7683](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/77/#star-7683) 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=Tao+Feng) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tao+Feng) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tao+Feng) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tao+Feng) ## Affiliations [🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 2022–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) · [🎓**Monash University** Melbourne · Australia 2022–2025 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/monash-university/) · [🔬**PLA Academy of Military Science** Beijing · China 2022–2025 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/pla-academy-of-military-science/) · [🎓**Lanzhou University of Technology** Lanzhou · China 2020–2024 · 4 papers](https://ror.org/03panb555) · [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2024–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) · [🎓**Suqian University** Suqian 2022–2025 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/00f93gn72) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**University of Houston** Houston · United States 2014 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-houston/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 20 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).[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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [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 [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tao-feng/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tao-feng/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ResearchTown: Simulator of Human Research Community](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yu-2024-researchtown-simulator-human-research-community/)** *(2024 · 23 citations)* Can a community of LLM agents reproduce how human scientists produce and assess research? The authors address this with ResearchTown, a multi-agent simulator that models a research community as an agent-data graph. 2. **[Teaching Small Language Models Reasoning through Counterfactual Distillation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/feng-2024-teaching-small-language-models-reasoning/)** *(2024 · 21 citations)* The paper addresses a weakness of chain-of-thought (CoT) distillation, where a large teacher model's rationales are used to fine-tune small language models (SLMs). 3. **[Less is More: Mitigate Spurious Correlations for Open-Domain Dialogue Response Generation Models by Causal Discovery](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/feng-2023-less-is-more-mitigate-spurious/)** *(2023 · 11 citations)* Open-domain response generators such as BlenderBot and DialoGPT write fluent replies but often lose track of long conversation histories. ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chenglin Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenglin-li/) - [Fei Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-yu/) - [Gholamreza Haffari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gholamreza-haffari/) - [Hao Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-chen/) - [Haofei Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haofei-yu/) - [Kunlun Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kunlun-zhu/) - [Lizhen Qu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lizhen-qu/) - [Yicheng Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yicheng-li/) - [Yin Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yin-zhang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2024/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 47 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tao-feng/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026