--- title: "Xin Cheng — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Xin Cheng, Renmin University of China: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xin-cheng/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xin-cheng/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xin Cheng # Xin Cheng Xin Cheng has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Bang Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bang-liu/), [Chaojun Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaojun-wang/), [Di Luo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/di-luo/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5038939458) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5038939458) · [3 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5038939458) · [10 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5038939458&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xin-cheng/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 192 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xin-cheng/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6104](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/62/#star-6104) 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=Xin+Cheng) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xin+Cheng) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xin+Cheng) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xin+Cheng) ## Affiliations [🎓**Renmin University of China** Beijing · China 2024 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/renmin-university-of-china/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution 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).[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/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Information Systems and Management · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/information-systems-and-management/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Text generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xin-cheng/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xin-cheng/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AFlow: Automating Agentic Workflow Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2024-aflow-automating-agentic-workflow/)** *(2024 · 95 citations)* Agentic workflows for LLMs are structured chains of model calls with instructions, and building them usually takes a lot of manual engineering. 2. **[Lift Yourself Up: Retrieval-augmented Text Generation with Self Memory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cheng-2023-lift-yourself-up-retrieval-augmented/)** *(2023 · 76 citations)* Retrieval-augmented generators condition on examples pulled from a fixed corpus, usually the training set, so the quality of their memory is capped by what that corpus contains. 3. **[Synthetic Data (Almost) from Scratch: Generalized Instruction Tuning for Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2024-synthetic-data-almost-scratch-generalized/)** *(2024 · 65 citations)* Instruction-tuning data for LLMs is usually derived from seed prompts or existing datasets (FLAN, Self-Instruct, Evol-Instruct), so its topical range is limited by those starting points. ## Co-authors here 12 of 23 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bang Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bang-liu/) - [Chaojun Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaojun-wang/) - [Di Luo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/di-luo/) - [Dongdong Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongdong-zhang/) - [Dongyan Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongyan-zhao/) - [Haoran Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haoran-li/) - [Haoyang Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haoyang-huang/) - [Jiaqi Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaqi-chen/) - [Jiayi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiayi-zhang/) - [Jinlin Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinlin-wang/) - [Lemao Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lemao-liu/) - [Mingchen Zhuge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingchen-zhuge/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 192 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [52 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xin-cheng/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026