--- title: "Xu Zhao — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Xu Zhao, University of Science and Technology of China: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xu-zhao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xu-zhao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xu Zhao # Xu Zhao Xu Zhao has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, 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/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Chengkun Cai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengkun-cai/), [Junxian He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junxian-he/), [Kenji Kawaguchi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenji-kawaguchi/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100594693) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100594693) · [19 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100594693) · [110 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100594693&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xu-zhao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 143 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xu-zhao/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6004](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/61/#star-6004) 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=Xu+Zhao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xu+Zhao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xu+Zhao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xu+Zhao) ## Affiliations [🎓**China Agricultural University** Beijing · China 2024–2025 · 5 papers*current*](https://ror.org/04v3ywz14) · [🎓**Northwest A&F University** Yangling · China 2024–2025 · 5 papers*current*](https://ror.org/0051rme32) · [🔬**State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau** Yangling · China 2024–2025 · 4 papers*current*](https://ror.org/045h6pd58) · [🏢**Alibaba Group** San Mateo · United States 2024–2025 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group-united-states/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2024–2025 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) · [🎓**University of Science and Technology of China** Hefei · China 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china/) 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Networks and Communications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-networks-and-communications/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xu-zhao/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xu-zhao/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Self-Evaluation Guided Beam Search for Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2023-self-evaluation-guided-beam-search/)** *(2023 · 149 citations)* Large language models reason better when they write out intermediate steps, but in long chains small mistakes pile up, and the number of possible chains grows exponentially. 2. **[The Role of Deductive and Inductive Reasoning in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cai-2025-role-deductive-inductive-reasoning-large/)** *(2025 · 17 citations)* Prompting methods such as Tree of Thought improve LLM reasoning by exploring many output paths, but this is expensive, and fixed prompt templates adapt poorly to harder instances. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chengkun Cai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengkun-cai/) - [Junxian He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junxian-he/) - [Kenji Kawaguchi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenji-kawaguchi/) - [Lei Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lei-li/) - [Min-Yen Kan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/min-yen-kan/) - [Qizhe Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qizhe-xie/) - [Yiran Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiran-zhao/) - [Yuxi Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuxi-xie/) ## 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 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [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 143 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [32 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xu-zhao/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026