--- title: "Walter Leite — author profile and papers" description: "Walter Leite, University of Florida: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 31 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/walter-leite/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/walter-leite/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Walter Leite # Walter Leite Walter Leite 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/), [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/); often with [Qian Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qian-shen/), [Bonnie Dorr](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bonnie-dorr/), [Zoey Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zoey-liu/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5078414045) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7655-5668) · [**h-index 31**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5078414045) · [159 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5078414045) · [3,584 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5078414045&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/walter-leite/#papers) · 🔗 1 citation in our library · [⭐ Paper Star rank #5177](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/52/#star-5177) 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=Walter+Leite) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Walter+Leite) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Walter+Leite) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Walter+Leite) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Florida** Gainesville · United States 2007–2026 · 118 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-florida/) · [🎓**The University of Texas at Austin** Austin · United States 2002–2010 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Topics [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Text generation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/walter-leite/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Children's English Reading Story Generation via Supervised Fine-Tuning of Compact LLMs with Controllable Difficulty and Safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2026-children-s-english-reading-story/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Story generators for early readers often break a curriculum's constraints. The authors start from a K–2 phonics curriculum of 129 lessons, each listing its target phonemes, and 2,580 stories (ten per lesson) that GPT-4o and Llama 3.3 70B wrote zero-shot. They fine-tune three 8B models (Llama 3, Apertus, Granite 3.3)… 2. **[A Dataset for Oral Reading in Young English Readers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rose-2026-dataset-oral-reading-young-english/)** *(2026)* Few English child speech corpora focus on oral reading, and those that do (notably the CMU Kids Corpus) have weaknesses. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Qian Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qian-shen/) ×2 - [Bonnie Dorr](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bonnie-dorr/) - [Zoey Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zoey-liu/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1 time (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read).