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# Wenqi Zhang

Wenqi Zhang has 7 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Code & programming languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/); often with [Weiming Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiming-lu/), [Yongliang Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yongliang-shen/), [Guiyang Hou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guiyang-hou/).

7 papers in our library · 2024–2026

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100457807) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8312-0184) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130872522) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100457807) · [85 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100457807) · [885 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100457807&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 7 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenqi-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 119 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenqi-zhang/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6181](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/62/#star-6181)

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

## Affiliations

[🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 2022–2026 · 27 papersEducation · College of Computer Science and TechnologyEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) · [🎓**Beijing University of Chemical Technology** Beijing · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/00df5yc52) · [🎓**Nanjing Tech University** Nanjing · China 2021–2024 · 7 papers](https://ror.org/03sd35x91) · [🎓**Shanghai University of Engineering Science** Shanghai · China 2012–2023 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/0557b9y08) · [🎓**North China Electric Power University** Beijing · China 2023–2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/north-china-electric-power-university/) · [🎓**Northwestern Polytechnical University** Xi'an · China 2022–2024 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northwestern-polytechnical-university/) · [🎓**Shenzhen University** Shenzhen · China 2023–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shenzhen-university/) · [🎓**Aarhus University** Aarhus · Denmark 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/aarhus-university/) · [🏢**Sony** Chengdu · China 2024 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/02qd2bv04) · [🎓**Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications** Beijing · China 2022–2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 18 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 10 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 7 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 6 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Engineering · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) · [Control and Systems Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/control-and-systems-engineering/) · [Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/industrial-and-manufacturing-engineering/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Software · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/)

🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Code & programming languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/) · [Semantic parsing & meaning representation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semantic-parsing/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2026** 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenqi-zhang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenqi-zhang/year/2025/) · [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenqi-zhang/year/2024/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Self-Contrast: Better Reflection Through Inconsistent Solving Perspectives](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2024-self-contrast-better-reflection-through/)** *(2024 · 75 citations)* The paper asks why large language models rarely fix their own mistakes when they reflect without outside feedback.
2. **[Agent-Pro: Learning to Evolve via Policy-Level Reflection and Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2024-agent-pro-learning-evolve-policy/)** *(2024 · 52 citations)* Most LLM-based agents depend on hand-written prompts that fix task rules and behavior. They cannot improve through experience, so they struggle in dynamic multi-agent settings with hidden information. Agent-Pro tackles this by treating policy learning as gradient-free prompt optimization, with no parameter updates.
3. **[STaR-SQL: Self-Taught Reasoner for Text-to-SQL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2025-star-sql-self-taught-reasoner/)** *(2025 · 17 citations)* Text-to-SQL systems built on LLMs often depend on long, rigid prompt pipelines, such as GPT-4-based DIN-SQL.
4. **[Embodied-Reasoner: Synergizing Visual Search, Reasoning, and Action for Embodied Interactive Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-embodied-reasoner-synergizing-visual-search/)** *(2026 · 5 citations)* Reasoning models do well at math and coding, but it is unclear whether they can handle embodied tasks. In these tasks an agent explores a room over many turns and must work with long sequences of alternating images and text. The authors present Embodied-Reasoner, a vision-language agent that combines visual search…
5. **[CoVerRL: Breaking the Consensus Trap in Label-Free Reasoning via Generator-Verifier Co-Evolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pan-2026-coverrl-breaking-consensus-trap-label/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Label-free reinforcement learning for LLM reasoning usually rewards a model for matching its own majority-voted answer.
6. **[UI-Copilot: Advancing Long-Horizon GUI Automation via Tool-Integrated Policy Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2026-ui-copilot-advancing-long-horizon/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Multimodal GUI agents perform well on short mobile tasks but break down on long, memory-heavy ones. Existing 7B models lose about 90.9% of their accuracy on MemGUI-Bench. The authors trace these failures to three causes: forgetting earlier observations, losing track of task progress, and making arithmetic mistakes.
7. **[Pause or Fabricate? Training Language Models for Grounded Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qiu-2026-pause-or-fabricate-training-language/)** *(2026)* The paper examines a failure mode the authors call ungrounded reasoning. When a question lacks a needed fact, a language model often notices the gap early but then invents a value and reasons confidently to a wrong answer. The authors argue that the cause is weak awareness of when valid inference is possible, not…

## All works

8 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 7 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[PromptNER: Prompt Locating and Typing for Named Entity Recognition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.698/) Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Yongliang Shen et al.*2023 · 83 citations*
2. **[Self-Contrast: Better Reflection Through Inconsistent Solving Perspectives](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2024-self-contrast-better-reflection-through/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Wenqi Zhang, Yongliang Shen, Linjuan Wu, et al.*2024 · 75 citations*
3. **[Agent-Pro: Learning to Evolve via Policy-Level Reflection and Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2024-agent-pro-learning-evolve-policy/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Wenqi Zhang, Ke Tang, Hai Wu, et al.*2024 · 52 citations*
4. **[STaR-SQL: Self-Taught Reasoner for Text-to-SQL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2025-star-sql-self-taught-reasoner/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Mingqian He, Yongliang Shen, Wenqi Zhang, et al.*2025 · 17 citations*
5. **[Embodied-Reasoner: Synergizing Visual Search, Reasoning, and Action for Embodied Interactive Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-embodied-reasoner-synergizing-visual-search/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Wenqi Zhang, Mengna Wang, Gangao Liu, et al.*2026 · 5 citations*
6. **[CoVerRL: Breaking the Consensus Trap in Label-Free Reasoning via Generator-Verifier Co-Evolution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pan-2026-coverrl-breaking-consensus-trap-label/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Teng Pan, Yuchen Yan, Zixuan Wang, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
7. **[UI-Copilot: Advancing Long-Horizon GUI Automation via Tool-Integrated Policy Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2026-ui-copilot-advancing-long-horizon/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Zhengxi Lu, Fei Tang, Guangyi Liu, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
8. **[Pause or Fabricate? Training Language Models for Grounded Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qiu-2026-pause-or-fabricate-training-language/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Yiwen Qiu, Linjuan Wu, Yizhou Liu, et al.*2026*

## Co-authors here

12 of 23 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Weiming Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiming-lu/) ×7
- [Yongliang Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yongliang-shen/) ×7
- [Guiyang Hou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guiyang-hou/) ×3
- [Jun Xiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jun-xiao/) ×3
- [Yueting Zhuang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yueting-zhuang/) ×3
- [Jin Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jin-ma/) ×2
- [Jun Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jun-wang/) ×2
- [Linjuan Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linjuan-wu/) ×2
- [Mengna Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mengna-wang/) ×2
- [Qiuying Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qiuying-peng/) ×2
- [Xu Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xu-tan/) ×2
- [Yuchen Yan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuchen-yan/) ×2

## 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/) ×7: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) ×3, [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/), [ACL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2024/) ×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/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 119 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [22 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenqi-zhang/cited-by/).

Updated 1 November 2026