--- title: "Weidong Zhang · Alibaba Group — author profile and papers" description: "Weidong Zhang, Alibaba Group: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weidong-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weidong-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Weidong Zhang # Weidong Zhang Weidong Zhang has 3 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Bo Zheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-zheng/), [Haibin Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haibin-chen/), [Langming Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/langming-liu/). 3 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5139786940) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5139786940) · [3 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139786940) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139786940&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weidong-zhang/#papers) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13373](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/134/#star-13373) 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=Weidong+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Weidong+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Weidong+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Weidong+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🏢**Alibaba Group** San Mateo · United States 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group-united-states/) · [🏢**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).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weidong-zhang/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[CoMeT: Collaborative Memory Transformer for Efficient Long Context Modeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-comet-collaborative-memory-transformer-efficient/)** *(2026)* Standard Transformers struggle with very long inputs because attention cost grows quadratically and the KV cache keeps expanding. 2. **[PretrainRL: Alleviating Factuality Hallucination of Large Language Models at the Beginning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-pretrainrl-alleviating-factuality-hallucination-large/)** *(2026)* The paper addresses factual hallucinations in LLMs, meaning confident statements that can be checked and shown false. 3. **[SELECting over Tokens: Curating Pre-training Data at Scale via Token Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tong-2026-selecting-over-tokens-curating-pre/)** *(2026)* Web-scraped pre-training corpora contain a lot of boilerplate and noise. Standard cleaning pipelines use document-level heuristics that can only keep or drop whole pages. Generative token-level refiners such as ProX-C are finer-grained but slow at scale and may hallucinate edits. The authors propose SelecT, which… ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bo Zheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-zheng/) ×3 - [Haibin Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haibin-chen/) ×3 - [Langming Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/langming-liu/) ×3 - [Shilei Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shilei-liu/) ×3 - [Wenbo Su](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenbo-su/) ×3 - [Yujin Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yujin-yuan/) ×3 - [Kangtao Lv](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kangtao-lv/) ×2 - [Xin Tong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xin-tong/) ×2 - [Jiaang Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaang-li/) - [Jingbo Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingbo-zhu/) - [Jiwei Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiwei-tang/) - [Runsong Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/runsong-zhao/) ## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) ×2 - [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