--- title: "Weiran Yao — author profile and papers · Machine translation" description: "Weiran Yao: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025) — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiran-yao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiran-yao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Weiran Yao # Weiran Yao Weiran Yao has 2 papers in our library, in 2025, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/); often with [Jianguo Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianguo-zhang/), [Juan Carlos Niebles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/juan-carlos-niebles/), [Ming Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ming-zhu/). 2 papers in our library · 2025 No OpenAlex profile matched yet. [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiran-yao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 83 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiran-yao/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7854](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/79/#star-7854) 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=Weiran+Yao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Weiran+Yao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Weiran+Yao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Weiran+Yao) ## 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 · 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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiran-yao/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[xLAM: A Family of Large Action Models to Empower AI Agent Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-xlam-family-large-action-models/)** *(2025 · 68 citations)* Open-source LLMs lag behind proprietary systems on agent tasks such as tool use. A major cause is that public agent datasets are scarce, inconsistent in format, homogeneous in content, and often noisy, with problems like hallucinated actions or repeated turns. The authors (Salesforce AI) release xLAM, a family of… 2. **[APIGen-MT: Agentic Pipeline for Multi-Turn Data Generation via Simulated Agent-Human Interplay](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/prabhakar-2025-apigen-mt-agentic-pipeline-multi/)** *(2025 · 36 citations)* Building capable multi-turn AI agents requires training data that captures realistic exchanges between humans and agents. ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jianguo Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianguo-zhang/) ×2 - [Juan Carlos Niebles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/juan-carlos-niebles/) ×2 - [Ming Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ming-zhu/) ×2 - [Shelby Heinecke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shelby-heinecke/) ×2 - [Thai Hoang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thai-hoang/) ×2 - [Zhiwei Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiwei-liu/) ×2 - [Zuxin Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zuxin-liu/) ×2 - [Akshara Prabhakar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/akshara-prabhakar/) - [Juntao Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/juntao-tan/) - [Shiyu Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shiyu-wang/) - [Tian Lan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tian-lan/) - [Yihao Feng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yihao-feng/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2025/) - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 83 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [29 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiran-yao/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026