--- title: "Xiaokang Zhang · Shihezi University — author profile and papers" description: "Xiaokang Zhang, Shihezi University: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 28 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaokang-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaokang-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xiaokang Zhang # Xiaokang Zhang Xiaokang Zhang has 4 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Bohan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bohan-zhang/), [Jing Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jing-zhang/), [Shirong Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shirong-ma/). 4 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100412323) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6127-4801) · [**h-index 28**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100412323) · [119 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100412323) · [3,062 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100412323&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaokang-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 3,682 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaokang-zhang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #687](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/7/#star-687) 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=Xiaokang+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xiaokang+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xiaokang+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xiaokang+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Wuhan University** Wuhan · China 2015–2026 · 16 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/wuhan-university/) · [🎓**Shihezi University** Shihezi · China 2021–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://ror.org/04x0kvm78) · [🎓**Wuhan University of Technology** Wuhan · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/wuhan-university-of-technology/) · [🎓**Wuhan University of Science and Technology** Wuhan · China 2023–2025 · 37 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/wuhan-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen** Shenzhen · China 2021–2024 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/chinese-university-of-hong-kong-shenzhen/) · [🎓**University of Science and Technology of China** Hefei · China 2021–2022 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china/) · [🎓**Shanghai University** Shanghai · China 2023–2024 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shanghai-university/) · [🎓**Nanjing University** Nanjing · China 2019–2022 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanjing-university/) · [🎓**Binzhou Medical University** Yantai · China 2025 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/008w1vb37) · [🎓**Hong Kong Polytechnic University** Hong Kong · China 2016–2019 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hong-kong-polytechnic-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 26 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 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Software · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) 💡 Concepts 2 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Large language models · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/large-language-models/) · [Machine learning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/machine-learning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaokang-zhang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaokang-zhang/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaokang-zhang/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[DeepSeek-R1: Incentivizing Reasoning Capability in LLMs via Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deepseek-ai-2025-deepseek-r1-incentivizing-reasoning-capability/)** *(2025 · 4,728 citations)* The paper asks whether a large language model can learn to reason well without human-written reasoning traces, which are costly, biased, and cap the model at human-level demonstrations. 2. **[DeepSeekMath-V2: Towards Self-Verifiable Mathematical Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shao-2025-deepseekmath-v2-self-verifiable/)** *(2025 · 33 citations)* Reinforcement learning that only checks final answers has let LLMs master answer-based contests like AIME and HMMT. 3. **[SpreadsheetBench: Towards Challenging Real World Spreadsheet Manipulation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2024-spreadsheetbench-towards-challenging-real-world/)** *(2024 · 21 citations)* SpreadsheetBench tackles a weakness in how LLM-based spreadsheet assistants are evaluated. Earlier benchmarks rely on synthetic or crowdsourced instructions, simple single-table sheets, and a single check per task. The authors collected solved questions from four Excel help forums (ExcelForum, Chandoo, MrExcel… 4. **[Sparse-RL: Breaking the Memory Wall in LLM Reinforcement Learning via Stable Sparse Rollouts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/luo-2026-sparse-rl-breaking-memory-wall/)** *(2026 · 4 citations)* Long reasoning rollouts in LLM reinforcement learning store large KV caches. This memory cost limits batch sizes and GPU utilization, especially since rollout generation takes most of the training time. The authors ask whether training-free KV compression, built for inference, can be used during rollouts. They find… ## Co-authors here 12 of 27 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bohan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bohan-zhang/) ×2 - [Jing Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jing-zhang/) ×2 - [Shirong Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shirong-ma/) ×2 - [Sijia Luo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sijia-luo/) ×2 - [Chengda Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengda-lu/) - [Daya Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daya-guo/) - [DeepSeek-AI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deepseek-ai/) - [Dejian Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dejian-yang/) - [Haowei Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haowei-zhang/) - [Jie Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-tang/) - [Jifan Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jifan-yu/) - [Junxiao Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junxiao-song/) ## 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 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [Nature](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature/): [Nature 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/nature/2025/) - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3,682 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [812 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaokang-zhang/cited-by/). 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