--- title: "Wenlin Yao — author profile and papers" description: "Wenlin Yao, Microsoft (United States): 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenlin-yao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenlin-yao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Wenlin Yao # Wenlin Yao 2 papers on this site · 2024 current affiliation [Microsoft (United States)](https://ror.org/00d0nc645), Redmond, United States; [Amazon (United States)](https://ror.org/04mv4n011), Seattle, United States; [Tencent (China)](https://ror.org/00hhjss72), Shenzhen, China Wenlin Yao has 2 papers on this site, in 2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Dong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dong-yu/), [Fei Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-liu/), [Hongming Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongming-zhang/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5024873469) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4502-0350) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5024873469) · [62 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5024873469) · [751 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5024873469&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenlin-yao/#papers) · [375 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenlin-yao/cited-by/) · 5 more works in our library 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=Wenlin+Yao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Wenlin+Yao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Wenlin+Yao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Wenlin+Yao) ## Affiliations - [Tencent (China)](https://ror.org/00hhjss72) · Shenzhen, China —current · 2022–2026 on 15 papers - [Microsoft (United States)](https://ror.org/00d0nc645) · Redmond, United States —current · 2026 on 9 papers - [Amazon (United States)](https://ror.org/04mv4n011) · Seattle, United States —current · 2026 on 1 paper - [University of Virginia](https://ror.org/0153tk833) · Charlottesville, United States —2025 on 2 papers - [University of Southern California](https://ror.org/03taz7m60) · Los Angeles, United States —2022 on 2 papers - [Texas A&M University](https://ror.org/01f5ytq51) · College Station, United States —2017–2020 on 9 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Language models & pretraining 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Vision & language 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[WebVoyager: Building an End-to-End Web Agent with Large Multimodal Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2024-webvoyager-building-end-end-web/)** *(2024 · 168 citations)* Most earlier web agents read only one kind of input, usually HTML text. They are also typically tested on simulated sites or frozen page snapshots, which says little about how they would handle real browsing. The authors present WebVoyager, an agent built on a large multimodal model (GPT-4V) that carries out user… 2. **[InFoBench: Evaluating Instruction Following Ability in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qin-2024-infobench-evaluating-instruction-following-ability/)** *(2024 · 133 citations)* Judging whether large language models obey user instructions usually relies on pairwise A/B comparisons, Elo ratings or a single holistic score. ## Also in our library 5 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dong-yu/) ×2 - [Fei Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-liu/) - [Hongming Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hongming-zhang/) - [Kaixin Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaixin-ma/) - [Pengfei Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pengfei-liu/) - [Wenhao Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenhao-yu/) - [Xiaoyang Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaoyang-wang/) - [Zhenzhong Lan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhenzhong-lan/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 375 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [13 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenlin-yao/cited-by/).