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# Wenjun Li

Wenjun Li has 2 papers in our library, in 2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Chao Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chao-du/), [Cong Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cong-zhang/), [Dexun Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dexun-li/).

2 papers in our library · 2025

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100446243) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5042-7756) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100446243) · [33 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100446243) · [252 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100446243&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenjun-li/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 287 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenjun-li/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4946](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/50/#star-4946)

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=Wenjun+Li) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Wenjun+Li) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Wenjun+Li) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Wenjun+Li)

## Affiliations

[🎓**Singapore Management University** Singapore · Singapore 2022–2025 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/singapore-management-university/) · [🎓**Hangzhou Dianzi University** Hangzhou · China 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hangzhou-dianzi-university/) · [🎓**Peking University** Beijing · China 2001–2021 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/peking-university/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 13 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [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/) · [Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/)

🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenjun-li/year/2025/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Understanding R1-Zero-Like Training: A Critical Perspective](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2025-understanding-r1-zero-like-training/)** *(2025 · 286 citations)* DeepSeek-R1-Zero showed that reinforcement learning applied directly to a base LLM, with no SFT stage, can strengthen reasoning.
2. **[Adaptive Tool Use in Large Language Models with Meta-Cognition Trigger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2025-adaptive-tool-use-large-language/)** *(2025 · 16 citations)* LLMs equipped with tools often call them even when they could answer from internal knowledge. This adds latency and exposes the model to failures from external APIs. The authors, from Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, propose MeCo (Meta-Cognition-oriented trigger), which decides whether a tool or retrieval call is actually…

## Co-authors here

12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Chao Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chao-du/)
- [Cong Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cong-zhang/)
- [Dexun Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dexun-li/)
- [Hao Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-zhang/)
- [Kuicai Dong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kuicai-dong/)
- [Min Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/min-lin/)
- [Ruiming Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruiming-tang/)
- [Tianyu Pang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyu-pang/)
- [Wee Sun Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wee-sun-lee/)
- [Weiwen Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiwen-liu/)
- [Yasheng Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yasheng-wang/)
- [Yong Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yong-liu/)

## 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/): [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 287 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [75 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenjun-li/cited-by/).

Updated 31 October 2026
