--- title: "Xuanfan Ni · Alibaba Group — author profile and papers" description: "Xuanfan Ni, Alibaba Group: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanfan-ni/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanfan-ni/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xuanfan Ni # Xuanfan Ni Xuanfan Ni has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Efficient models & compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Chenyang Lyu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenyang-lyu/), [Bo Zeng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-zeng/), [Longyue Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/longyue-wang/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5035601720) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0006-9785-2956) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130980618) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5035601720) · [23 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5035601720) · [9 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5035601720&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanfan-ni/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 12 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanfan-ni/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9601](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/97/#star-9601) 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=Xuanfan+Ni) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xuanfan+Ni) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xuanfan+Ni) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xuanfan+Ni) ## Affiliations [🎓**Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics** Nanjing · China 2023–2026 · 11 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanjing-university-of-aeronautics-and-astronautics/) · [🏢**Alibaba Group** Hangzhou · China 2025–2026 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group/) · [🎓**Fudan University** Shanghai · China 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/fudan-university/) · [🏛️**Ministry of Industry and Information Technology** Beijing · China 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/0385nmy68) 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 · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Efficient models & compression · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanfan-ni/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanfan-ni/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Marco-o1 v2: Towards Widening The Distillation Bottleneck for Reasoning Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yin-2025-marco-o1-v2-widening/)** *(2025 · 8 citations)* Small models are often taught to reason by fine-tuning them on long chain-of-thought (CoT) traces from large reasoning models such as DeepSeek-R1. 2. **[Marco-Bench-MIF: On Multilingual Instruction-Following Capability of Large Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zeng-2025-marco-bench-mif-multilingual-instruction/)** *(2025 · 5 citations)* Most benchmarks for LLM instruction following are English-only or plain machine translations, so they handle constraints that don't transfer across languages poorly. 3. **[ReFreeKV: Towards Threshold-Free KV Cache Compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ni-2026-refreekv-threshold-free-kv-cache/)** *(2026)* KV cache pruning methods such as H2O, SnapKV and CAKE can cut LLM inference memory with little loss, but only when the cache budget is tuned to each dataset or domain. ## Co-authors here 12 of 20 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chenyang Lyu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenyang-lyu/) ×3 - [Bo Zeng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-zeng/) ×2 - [Longyue Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/longyue-wang/) ×2 - [Minghao Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minghao-wu/) ×2 - [Tianqi Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianqi-shi/) ×2 - [Yu Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-zhao/) ×2 - [Fandong Meng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fandong-meng/) - [Hao Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-wang/) - [Huifeng Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huifeng-yin/) - [Jiahui Geng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiahui-geng/) - [Jie Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-zhou/) - [Kaifu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaifu-zhang/) ## 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 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) ×2 - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 12 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [7 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuanfan-ni/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026