--- title: "Weixu Zhang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Weixu Zhang, Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weixu-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weixu-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Weixu Zhang # Weixu Zhang Weixu 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/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/), [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/); often with [Yuxing Tian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuxing-tian/), [Haolun Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haolun-wu/), [Fanghua Ye](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fanghua-ye/). 3 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5139771844) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5139771844) · [3 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139771844) · [1 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139771844&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weixu-zhang/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 1 time in our library · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10852](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/109/#star-10852) 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=Weixu+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Weixu+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Weixu+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Weixu+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**McGill University** Montreal · Canada 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mcgill-university/) · [🔬**Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute** Montreal · Canada 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mila-quebec-artificial-intelligence-institute/) 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 6 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 · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](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/weixu-zhang/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Context-Fidelity Boosting: Enhancing Faithful Generation through Watermark-Inspired Decoding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-context-fidelity-boosting-enhancing-faithful/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* When LLMs answer questions or summarize from a supplied passage, they often fall back on knowledge memorized in pretraining. 2. **[Preference Heads in Large Language Models: A Mechanistic Framework for Interpretable Personalization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-preference-heads-large-language-models/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* LLMs can adapt to a user's tone and topical interests, but current personalization methods (prompting, retrieval of user profiles, fine-tuning) treat this ability as a black box. 3. **[ReAttn: Improving Attention-based Re-ranking via Attention Re-weighting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tian-2026-reattn-improving-attention-based-re/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Attention-based re-ranking scores candidate documents from an LLM's internal attention rather than from generated output. ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Yuxing Tian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuxing-tian/) ×3 - [Haolun Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haolun-wu/) ×2 - [Fanghua Ye](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fanghua-ye/) - [Fengran Mo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fengran-mo/) - [Jian Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-li/) - [Jian-Yun Nie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-yun-nie/) - [Nan Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nan-du/) - [Xiaolong Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaolong-li/) - [Xue Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xue-liu/) - [Ye Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ye-yuan/) - [Yiyan Qi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiyan-qi/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/) ×2: [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ×2 - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1 time (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). 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