--- title: "Xinyu Guan · Alibaba Group — author profile and papers" description: "Xinyu Guan, Alibaba Group: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyu-guan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyu-guan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xinyu Guan # Xinyu Guan Xinyu Guan has 2 papers in our library, in 2025, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Li Lyna Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/li-lyna-zhang/), [Ning Shang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ning-shang/), [Yi Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-zhu/). 2 papers in our library · 2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101429563) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0000-6901-7925) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130868340) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101429563) · [11 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101429563) · [61 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101429563&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyu-guan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 144 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyu-guan/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7087](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/71/#star-7087) 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=Xinyu+Guan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xinyu+Guan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xinyu+Guan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xinyu+Guan) ## Affiliations [🏢**Alibaba Group** Hangzhou · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group/) 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).[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/) · [Mathematics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [Applied Mathematics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/applied-mathematics/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) 🧭 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 · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyu-guan/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[rStar-Math: Small LLMs Can Master Math Reasoning with Self-Evolved Deep Thinking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/guan-2025-rstar-math-small-llms-can/)** *(2025 · 146 citations)* Most math-reasoning LLMs learn from chain-of-thought data distilled from a stronger teacher such as GPT-4. 2. **[rStar2-Agent: Agentic Reasoning Technical Report](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shang-2025-rstar2-agent-agentic-reasoning/)** *(2025 · 6 citations)* Long chain-of-thought reasoning helps LLMs on hard math, but models that rely only on internal self-checking often miss subtle mistakes. ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Li Lyna Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/li-lyna-zhang/) ×2 - [Ning Shang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ning-shang/) ×2 - [Yi Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-zhu/) ×2 - [Yifei Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifei-liu/) ×2 - [Bingcheng Dong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bingcheng-dong/) - [Bowen Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-zhang/) - [Fan Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fan-yang/) - [Mao Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mao-yang/) - [Xudong Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xudong-zhou/) - [Ying Xin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ying-xin/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 144 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [46 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyu-guan/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026