--- title: "Yali Du — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yali Du, Shanghai Jiao Tong University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025), h-index 15 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yali-du/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yali-du/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yali Du # Yali Du Yali Du has 2 papers in our library, in 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/); often with [Yulan He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yulan-he/), [Chen Qian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-qian/), [Hanqi Yan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanqi-yan/). 2 papers in our library · 2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5002080576) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5683-2621) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5002080576) · [75 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5002080576) · [1,288 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5002080576&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yali-du/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 93 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yali-du/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7067](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/71/#star-7067) 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=Yali+Du) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yali+Du) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yali+Du) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yali+Du) ## Affiliations [🎓**King's College London** London · United Kingdom 2021–2026 · 114 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/king-s-college-london/) · [🔬**The Alan Turing Institute** London · United Kingdom 2025–2026 · 11 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/the-alan-turing-institute/) · [🎓**Shanghai Jiao Tong University** Shanghai · China 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shanghai-jiao-tong-university/) · [🎓**University College London** London · United Kingdom 2021–2026 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-college-london/) · [🎓**University of Technology Sydney** Sydney · Australia 2017–2019 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-technology-sydney/) · [🔬**Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology** Shenzhen · China 2018 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/shenzhen-institutes-of-advanced-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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).[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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](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 · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yali-du/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[CODI: Compressing Chain-of-Thought into Continuous Space via Self-Distillation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2025-codi-compressing-chain-thought-into/)** *(2025 · 78 citations)* The paper asks whether a language model can reason in hidden vector space rather than writing out a chain-of-thought (CoT) and still match explicit CoT accuracy. 2. **[NOVER: Incentive Training for Language Models via Verifier-Free Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2025-nover-incentive-training-language-models/)** *(2025 · 7 citations)* Incentive training rewards a model only on its final answer, which pushes it to produce intermediate reasoning on its own. ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[CODI: Compressing Chain-of-Thought into Continuous Space via Self-Distillation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2025-codi-compressing-chain-thought-into/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Zhenyi Shen, Hanqi Yan, Linhai Zhang, et al.*2025 · 78 citations* 2. **[ChessGPT: Bridging Policy Learning and Language Modeling ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.09200) arXiv:2306.09200 · no summary yet**Xidong Feng et al.*2023 · 34 citations* 3. **[NOVER: Incentive Training for Language Models via Verifier-Free Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2025-nover-incentive-training-language-models/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Wei Liu, Siya Qi, Xinyu Wang, et al.*2025 · 7 citations* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Yulan He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yulan-he/) ×2 - [Chen Qian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-qian/) - [Hanqi Yan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hanqi-yan/) - [Linhai Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linhai-zhang/) - [Wei Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-liu/) - [Xinyu Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyu-wang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) ×2: [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) ×2 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 93 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [27 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yali-du/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026