--- title: "Xingjian Diao · Dartmouth College — author profile and papers" description: "Xingjian Diao, Dartmouth College: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingjian-diao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingjian-diao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xingjian Diao # Xingjian Diao Xingjian Diao has 4 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, 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/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/); often with [Chiyu Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chiyu-ma/), [Soroush Vosoughi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/soroush-vosoughi/), [Chunhui Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chunhui-zhang/). 4 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101892331) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9605-4991) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101892331) · [28 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101892331) · [109 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101892331&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingjian-diao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 61 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingjian-diao/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8139](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/82/#star-8139) 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=Xingjian+Diao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xingjian+Diao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xingjian+Diao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xingjian+Diao) ## Affiliations [🎓**Dartmouth College** Hanover · United States 2023–2026 · 23 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dartmouth-college/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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 12 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Social Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Political Science and International Relations · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/political-science-and-international-relations/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Signal Processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) · [Education · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/education/) · [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 · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingjian-diao/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingjian-diao/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Judging the Judges: A Systematic Study of Position Bias in LLM-as-a-Judge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2025-judging-judges-systematic-study-position/)** *(2025 · 71 citations)* LLM judges are widely used as a cheaper substitute for human evaluators, but they often favour an answer because of where it sits in the prompt rather than because of what it says. 2. **[SoundMind: RL-Incentivized Logic Reasoning for Audio-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/diao-2025-soundmind-rl-incentivized-logic-reasoning/)** *(2025 · 11 citations)* Large audio-language models (LALMs) can understand speech, but they are weak at multi-step logical reasoning. 3. **[What Makes a Good Curriculum? Disentangling the Effects of Data Ordering on LLM Mathematical Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jia-2026-what-makes-good-curriculum-disentangling/)** *(2026 · 4 citations)* Curriculum learning, which sorts training examples from easy to hard, is often used to improve LLM reasoning. 4. **[Tailoring Memory Granularity for Multi-Hop Reasoning over Long Contexts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qing-2026-tailoring-memory-granularity-multi-hop/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* Answering multi-hop questions over long documents requires connecting facts that appear far apart, while ignoring distracting text. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chiyu Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chiyu-ma/) ×4 - [Soroush Vosoughi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/soroush-vosoughi/) ×4 - [Chunhui Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chunhui-zhang/) ×2 - [Peijun Qing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peijun-qing/) ×2 - [Zhongyu Ouyang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhongyu-ouyang/) ×2 - [Lin Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lin-shi/) - [Weicheng Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weicheng-ma/) - [Xiangchi Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiangchi-yuan/) ## 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/) - [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/) - [International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/): [IJCNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 61 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [18 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingjian-diao/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026