--- title: "Xinyu Zhao — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Xinyu Zhao, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyu-zhao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyu-zhao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xinyu Zhao # Xinyu Zhao Xinyu Zhao has 4 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Tianlong Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianlong-chen/), [Ang Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ang-li/), [Chin-Chia Michael Yeh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chin-chia-michael-yeh/). 4 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5139770332) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5139770332) · [3 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139770332) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139770332&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyu-zhao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 128 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyu-zhao/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7237](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/73/#star-7237) 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+Zhao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xinyu+Zhao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xinyu+Zhao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xinyu+Zhao) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill** Chapel Hill · United States 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/) · [🏢**Honda** Torrance · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/04vdmc602) · [🔬**Honda Research Institute, USA** San Jose · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/02441en43) 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 5 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyu-zhao/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyu-zhao/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[To CoT or not to CoT? Chain-of-thought helps mainly on math and symbolic reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sprague-2024-cot-cot-chain-thought-helps/)** *(2024 · 138 citations)* Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting, where a large language model is asked to reason step by step, is widely treated as a general booster for reasoning. 2. **[Metacognitive Self-Correction for Multi-Agent System via Prototype-Guided Next-Execution Reconstruction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2026-metacognitive-self-correction-multi-agent/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* LLM-based multi-agent systems (MAS) are fragile: one agent's mistake can spread through the collaboration and derail the whole run. 3. **[Demystify the Role of Memory in Machine Learning Engineering Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-demystify-role-memory-machine-learning/)** *(2026)* LLM agents that automate machine learning engineering (MLE) often fall into the same errors repeatedly, both inside one search tree and across separate runs of a task. 4. **[Learning Flexible Large Multimodal Models with Arbitrary Modality Combinations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-learning-flexible-large-multimodal-models/)** *(2026)* Multimodal LLMs that handle many input types usually assume every training and test sample includes all modalities. ## Co-authors here 12 of 19 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Tianlong Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianlong-chen/) ×3 - [Ang Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ang-li/) - [Chin-Chia Michael Yeh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chin-chia-michael-yeh/) - [Dongwei Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongwei-jiang/) - [Greg Durrett](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/greg-durrett/) - [Jie Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-peng/) - [Juan Diego Rodriguez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/juan-diego-rodriguez/) - [Kangqi Ni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kangqi-ni/) - [Kyle Mahowald](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyle-mahowald/) - [Mahashweta Das](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mahashweta-das/) - [Menghai Pan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/menghai-pan/) - [Prasann Singhal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prasann-singhal/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/) ×3: [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ×3 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 128 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [33 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyu-zhao/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026