--- title: "Xiyuan Zhang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Xiyuan Zhang, Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2026), h-index 12 — affiliations…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiyuan-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiyuan-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xiyuan Zhang # Xiyuan Zhang Xiyuan Zhang has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2026, most of them on [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Guo Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guo-tang/), [Haifeng Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haifeng-wang/), [Hua Ren Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hua-ren-wu/). 2 papers in our library · 2019–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100725664) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8908-1307) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100725664) · [42 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100725664) · [582 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100725664&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiyuan-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 63 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiyuan-zhang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6406](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/65/#star-6406) 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=Xiyuan+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xiyuan+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xiyuan+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xiyuan+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications** Xi'an · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/04jn0td46) · [🎓**University of California San Diego** San Diego · United States 2022–2025 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-san-diego/) · [🎓**Harbin Normal University** Harbin · China 2022–2023 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/0270y6950) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 13 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiyuan-zhang/year/2026/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiyuan-zhang/year/2019/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Proactive Human-Machine Conversation with Explicit Conversation Goal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2019-proactive-human-machine-conversation-explicit/)** *(2019 · 206 citations)* Most dialogue systems simply react to the user and do not steer the exchange. This Baidu paper defines a task in which an agent must actively guide a chat toward a preset target: a two-hop path "[start] → topic a → topic b", where each topic is an entity in a knowledge graph. The authors crawled movie and film-star… 2. **[LCR-RAG: Enhancing Logical Consistency in Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Neuro-symbolic Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zheng-2026-lcr-rag-enhancing-logical-consistency/)** *(2026)* Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) helps large language models stay factually grounded. In multi-step reasoning, however, answers can still contradict themselves or skip inference steps. Iterative and self-reflective systems such as IRCoT and Self-RAG try to fix this, but they depend on the model judging its own… ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Guo Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guo-tang/) - [Haifeng Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haifeng-wang/) - [Hua Ren Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hua-ren-wu/) - [Jian Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-xie/) - [Ming Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ming-liu/) - [Wenquan Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenquan-wu/) - [Wenxiang Zheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenxiang-zheng/) - [Xiangyang Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiangyang-zhou/) - [Zhen Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-guo/) ## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/), [ACL 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2019/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 63 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiyuan-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026