--- title: "Wenyuan Zhang — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Wenyuan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenyuan-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenyuan-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Wenyuan Zhang # Wenyuan Zhang Wenyuan Zhang has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Tingwen Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tingwen-liu/), [Shuaiyi Nie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuaiyi-nie/), [Yao Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-chen/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5123032378) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5123032378) · [3 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5123032378) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5123032378&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenyuan-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 51 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenyuan-zhang/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7744](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/78/#star-7744) 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=Wenyuan+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Wenyuan+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Wenyuan+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Wenyuan+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🔬**Institute of Information Engineering** Beijing · China 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institute-of-information-engineering/) · [🎓**University of Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences/) 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).[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/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenyuan-zhang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenyuan-zhang/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ExpSeek: Self-Triggered Experience Seeking for Web Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-expseek-self-triggered-experience-seeking/)** *(2026 · 24 citations)* Web agents that search the open web often explore poorly or answer too early, particularly when built on small LLMs. 2. **[AttnPO: Attention-Guided Process Supervision for Efficient Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nie-2026-attnpo-attention-guided-process-supervision/)** *(2026 · 18 citations)* Reasoning models trained with RLVR tend to overthink, producing long chains of thought with little benefit. 3. **[Improving Reasoning Capabilities in Small Models through Mixture-of-layers Distillation with Stepwise Attention on Key Information](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2025-improving-reasoning-capabilities-small-models/)** *(2025 · 10 citations)* Small language models are cheaper to deploy than large ones but reason less well. Chain-of-Thought (CoT) distillation usually just trains them on teacher-written rationales, with every token weighted the same. The authors observe that teacher models such as Llama3-8B shift their attention from step to step toward the… ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[ExpSeek: Self-Triggered Experience Seeking for Web Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-expseek-self-triggered-experience-seeking/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Wenyuan Zhang, Xinghua Zhang, Haiyang Yu, et al.*2026 · 24 citations* 2. **[AttnPO: Attention-Guided Process Supervision for Efficient Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nie-2026-attnpo-attention-guided-process-supervision/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Shuaiyi Nie, Dingsiyu, Wenyuan Zhang, et al.*2026 · 18 citations* 3. **[Improving Reasoning Capabilities in Small Models through Mixture-of-layers Distillation with Stepwise Attention on Key Information](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2025-improving-reasoning-capabilities-small-models/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Yao Chen, Jiawei Sheng, Wenyuan Zhang, et al.*2025 · 10 citations* 4. **[HyperMem: Hypergraph Memory for Long-Term Conversations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1627/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Juwei Yue et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Tingwen Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tingwen-liu/) ×3 - [Shuaiyi Nie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuaiyi-nie/) ×2 - [Yao Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-chen/) ×2 - [Bingli Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bingli-wu/) - [Haiyang Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haiyang-yu/) - [Hua Ren Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hua-ren-wu/) - [Jiawei Sheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiawei-sheng/) - [Linhao Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linhao-yu/) - [Weichong Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weichong-yin/) - [Xinghua Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinghua-zhang/) - [Yongbin Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yongbin-li/) - [Yu Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-sun/) ## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) - [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 51 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [28 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenyuan-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026