--- title: "Yanan Zheng · Gilead Sciences — author profile and papers" description: "Yanan Zheng, Gilead Sciences: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2026), h-index 45 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanan-zheng/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanan-zheng/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yanan Zheng # Yanan Zheng Yanan Zheng has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Jie Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-tang/), [Ming Ding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ming-ding/), [Shengjie Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shengjie-ma/). 2 papers in our library · 2021–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5016643106) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9823-0191) · [**h-index 45**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5016643106) · [263 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5016643106) · [7,144 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5016643106&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanan-zheng/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 583 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanan-zheng/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2352](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/24/#star-2352) 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+Zheng) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yanan+Zheng) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yanan+Zheng) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yanan+Zheng) ## Affiliations [🎓**Huazhong University of Science and Technology** Wuhan · China 2011–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🏥**Central Hospital of Wuhan** Wuhan · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/04qs2sz84) · [🏢**Gilead Sciences** Foster City · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/056546b03) · [🏥**Ruijin Hospital** Shanghai · China 2011–2025 · 30 papers](https://ror.org/01hv94n30) · [🎓**Shanghai Jiao Tong University** Shanghai · China 2011–2025 · 30 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shanghai-jiao-tong-university/) · [🏢**Genentech** San Francisco 2010–2015 · 16 papers](https://ror.org/04gndp242) · [🎓**Shenyang Agricultural University** Shenyang · China 1999–2023 · 12 papersEducation 1999–2003 · Bachelor, College of Plant ProtectionEducation 2003–2006 · Master, College of Plant ProtectionEducation 2006–2009 · Doctor, College of Plant ProtectionEmployment since 2009 · teacher and researcher, College of Forestry](https://ror.org/01n7x9n08) · [🎓**Gannan Medical University** Ganzhou · China 2016–2025 · 10 papers](https://ror.org/01tjgw469) · [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2017–2023 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) · [🏛️**National Development and Reform Commission** Beijing · China 2016–2020 · 9 papers](https://ror.org/017a59b72) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 60 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.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-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/yanan-zheng/year/2026/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanan-zheng/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[GPT Understands, Too](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2021-gpt-understands-too/)** *(2021 · 1,054 citations)* The paper tackles the fragility of hand-written prompts for pretrained language models. In the authors' preliminary tests, small edits to a cloze pattern, sometimes one word, caused large swings in accuracy. Their method, P-Tuning, adds a few trainable continuous vectors to the usual discrete prompt tokens. These… 2. **[Towards Hierarchical Multi-Step Reward Models for Enhanced Reasoning in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-hierarchical-multi-step-reward-models/)** *(2026 · 10 citations)* Process Reward Models (PRMs) score each step of an LLM's mathematical reasoning. They have two weaknesses: they can be gamed through reward hacking, and they need costly step-level annotation. They also penalize a wrong step even when a later step fixes it. ## All works 5 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. **[GPT Understands, Too](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2021-gpt-understands-too/) [AI Open](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ai-open/)**Xiao Liu, Yanan Zheng, Zhengxiao Du, et al.*2021 · 1,054 citations* 2. **[FlipDA: Effective and Robust Data Augmentation for Few-Shot Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.592/) Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Jing Zhou et al.*2022 · 110 citations* 3. **[FewNLU: Benchmarking State-of-the-Art Methods for Few-Shot Natural Language Understanding ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.38/) Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Yanan Zheng et al.*2022 · 34 citations* 4. **[NLP From Scratch Without Large-Scale Pretraining: A Simple and Efficient Framework ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04130) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Xingcheng Yao et al.*2021 · 34 citations* 5. **[Towards Hierarchical Multi-Step Reward Models for Enhanced Reasoning in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-hierarchical-multi-step-reward-models/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Teng Wang, Jiang Zhangyi, Zhenqi He, et al.*2026 · 10 citations* ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jie Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-tang/) - [Ming Ding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ming-ding/) - [Shengjie Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shengjie-ma/) - [Teng Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/teng-wang/) - [Xiao Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiao-liu/) - [Yujie Qian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yujie-qian/) - [Zeyu Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeyu-li/) - [Zhengxiao Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengxiao-du/) - [Zhilin Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhilin-yang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [AI Open](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ai-open/) ×2: [AI Open 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ai-open/2021/) - Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ×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 583 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [84 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanan-zheng/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026