--- title: "Xuanbo Fan · Peking University — author profile and papers" description: "Xuanbo Fan, Peking University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanbo-fan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanbo-fan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xuanbo Fan # Xuanbo Fan Xuanbo Fan has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Yan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yan-zhang/), [Boci Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boci-peng/), [Fei Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-huang/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101263563) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101263563) · [15 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101263563) · [5 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101263563&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanbo-fan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 50 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanbo-fan/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9034](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/91/#star-9034) 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=Xuanbo+Fan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xuanbo+Fan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xuanbo+Fan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xuanbo+Fan) ## Affiliations [🎓**Peking University** Beijing · China 2025–2026 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/peking-university/) 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 8 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/) · [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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Physics and Astronomy · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/physics-and-astronomy/) · [Statistical and Nonlinear Physics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/physics-and-astronomy/statistical-and-nonlinear-physics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [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/xuanbo-fan/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanbo-fan/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ZeroSearch: Incentivize the Search Capability of LLMs without Searching](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2025-zerosearch-incentivize-search-capability-llms/)** *(2025 · 50 citations)* Training LLM agents to use web search through reinforcement learning usually means querying a live engine during rollouts. 2. **[COSMOS: Connectivity-Oriented Submodular Maximization for Optimal Subgraph Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/peng-2026-cosmos-connectivity-oriented-submodular-maximization/)** *(2026)* The paper tackles evidence retrieval for Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA), where an LLM needs a compact and connected set of knowledge-graph facts rather than isolated triplets. The authors identify weaknesses in three existing families of retrievers: ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Yan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yan-zhang/) ×2 - [Boci Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boci-peng/) - [Fei Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-huang/) - [Hao Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-sun/) - [Jiayan Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiayan-guo/) - [Jingren Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingren-zhou/) - [Pengjun Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pengjun-xie/) - [Xiao Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiao-liu/) - [Yanwei Yue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanwei-yue/) - [Yong Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yong-jiang/) - [Yun Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yun-zhu/) - [Zile Qiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zile-qiao/) ## 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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 50 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [25 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanbo-fan/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026