--- title: "Yanan Cao — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yanan Cao, Chinese Academy of Sciences: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanan-cao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanan-cao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yanan Cao # Yanan Cao Yanan Cao has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Fang Fang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fang-fang/), [Ge Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ge-zhang/), [Huan Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huan-liu/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100627567) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0811-4016) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100627567) · [39 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100627567) · [524 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100627567&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanan-cao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 8 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanan-cao/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/101/#star-10015) 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=Yanan+Cao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yanan+Cao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yanan+Cao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yanan+Cao) ## Affiliations [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2008–2026 · 32 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🔬**Institute of Information Engineering** Beijing · China 2013–2026 · 29 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institute-of-information-engineering/) · [🎓**University of Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2020–2026 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [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/) · [Hardware and Architecture · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/hardware-and-architecture/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanan-cao/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanan-cao/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Sibyl: Empowering Empathetic Dialogue Generation in Large Language Models via Sensible and Visionary Commonsense Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2025-sibyl-empowering-empathetic-dialogue-generation/)** *(2025 · 9 citations)* LLM-based chatbots often fall short on empathy and emotional support in multi-turn conversations, even when they are given commonsense knowledge. 2. **[EA-Agent: A Structured Multi-Step Reasoning Agent for Entity Alignment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nan-2026-ea-agent-structured-multi-step/)** *(2026)* Entity alignment (EA) means finding entities in two knowledge graphs that denote the same real-world object. 3. **[Rethinking LLM Watermark Detection in Black-Box Settings: A Non-Intrusive Third-Party Framework](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-rethinking-llm-watermark-detection-black/)** *(2026)* Most LLM watermarks share a secret key between the embedding step and the detector. Outsiders such as courts, regulators or platform moderators therefore cannot check a watermark on their own. They must either trust the provider's word or obtain the key, and handing over the key makes forging or removing the… ## All works 6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Sibyl: Empowering Empathetic Dialogue Generation in Large Language Models via Sensible and Visionary Commonsense Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2025-sibyl-empowering-empathetic-dialogue-generation/) [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/)**Lanrui Wang, Jiangnan Li, Chenxu Yang, et al.*2025 · 9 citations* 2. **[EA-Agent: A Structured Multi-Step Reasoning Agent for Entity Alignment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nan-2026-ea-agent-structured-multi-step/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yixuan Nan, Xixun Lin, Yanmin Shang, et al.*2026* 3. **[Rethinking LLM Watermark Detection in Black-Box Settings: A Non-Intrusive Third-Party Framework](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-rethinking-llm-watermark-detection-black/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Zhuoshang Wang, Yubing Ren, Yanan Cao, et al.*2026* 4. **[CIA: Inferring the Communication Topology from LLM-based Multi-Agent Systems ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.815/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Yongxuan Wu et al.*2026* 5. **[Cognitive Analysis Graph-Guided Multi-Turn Safety Enhancement for Large Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.1558/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 · no summary yet**Lanxue Zhang et al.*2026* 6. **[Exons-Detect: Identifying and Amplifying Exonic Tokens via Hidden-State Discrepancy for Robust AI-Generated Text Detection ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1211/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Xiaowei Zhu et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Fang Fang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fang-fang/) ×2 - [Ge Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ge-zhang/) - [Huan Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huan-liu/) - [Jingang Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingang-wang/) - [Weiping Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiping-wang/) - [Zheng Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zheng-lin/) ## 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/) ×3: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2025/) - [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/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 8 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanan-cao/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026