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# Wentao Wang

Wentao Wang has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Brenden M. Lake](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brenden-m-lake/), [Jackson Petty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jackson-petty/), [Michael Y. Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-y-hu/).

2 papers in our library · 2024–2026

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100394126) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9919-7488) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130869378) · [**h-index 18**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100394126) · [119 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100394126) · [1,849 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100394126&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wentao-wang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 37 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wentao-wang/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10610](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/107/#star-10610)

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

## Affiliations

[🎓**University of Technology Sydney** Sydney · Australia 2024–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-technology-sydney/) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2015–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🎓**New York University** New York · United States 2023–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) · [🔬**Institute of Information Engineering** Beijing · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institute-of-information-engineering/) · [🎓**Northwest Normal University** Lanzhou · China 2021–2023 · 9 papers](https://ror.org/00gx3j908) · [🎓**Michigan State University** East Lansing · United States 2020–2022 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/michigan-state-university/) · [🎓**South Central Minzu University** Wuhan · China 2010–2025 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/03d7sax13) · [🎓**Hebei Normal University** Shijiazhuang · China 2003–2010 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/004rbbw49) · [🏢**Baidu** Beijing · China 2016–2019 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/baidu/) · [🎓**Jiaxing University** Jiaxing · China 2010–2013 · 4 papers](https://ror.org/00j2a7k55)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 39 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 7 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/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [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.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wentao-wang/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wentao-wang/year/2024/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[A systematic investigation of learnability from single child linguistic input](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qin-2024-systematic-investigation-learnability-single-child/)** *(2024 · 5 citations)* Modern language models learn from vastly more text than a child hears, and that text is very different from speech addressed to children.
2. **[RELIC: Evaluating Complex Reasoning via the Recognition of Languages In-Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/petty-2026-relic-evaluating-complex-reasoning-recognition/)** *(2026)* LLMs increasingly have to solve tasks by retrieving and combining many pieces of information from their context.

## All works

3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[Mitigating Gender Bias for Neural Dialogue Generation with Adversarial Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.64/) Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · no summary yet**Haochen Liu et al.*2020 · 86 citations*
2. [**A systematic investigation of learnability from single child linguistic input arXiv:2402.07899**Yulu Qin, Wentao Wang, Brenden M. Lake*2024 · 5 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qin-2024-systematic-investigation-learnability-single-child/)
3. **[RELIC: Evaluating Complex Reasoning via the Recognition of Languages In-Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/petty-2026-relic-evaluating-complex-reasoning-recognition/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Jackson Petty, Michael Y. Hu, Wentao Wang, et al.*2026*

## Co-authors here

6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Brenden M. Lake](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brenden-m-lake/)
- [Jackson Petty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jackson-petty/)
- [Michael Y. Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-y-hu/)
- [Shauli Ravfogel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shauli-ravfogel/)
- [Tal Linzen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tal-linzen/)
- [William Merrill](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-merrill/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2026/)
- Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 37 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wentao-wang/cited-by/).

Updated 1 November 2026
