--- title: "Yanchao Sun — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yanchao Sun, Harbin Engineering University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025), h-index 28 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanchao-sun/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanchao-sun/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yanchao Sun # Yanchao Sun Yanchao Sun has 2 papers in our library, in 2025, 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 [Graham Neubig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/graham-neubig/), [Meng Cao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meng-cao/), [Rose Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rose-yu/). 2 papers in our library · 2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5067750782) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7392-4472) · [**h-index 28**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5067750782) · [122 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5067750782) · [2,359 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5067750782&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanchao-sun/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 62 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanchao-sun/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9324](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/94/#star-9324) 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=Yanchao+Sun) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yanchao+Sun) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yanchao+Sun) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yanchao+Sun) ## Affiliations [🎓**Harbin Engineering University** Harbin · China 2018–2026 · 54 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harbin-engineering-university/) · [🎓**Harbin Institute of Technology** Harbin · China 2014–2019 · 43 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harbin-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 2022–2025 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) · [🏢**JPMorgan Chase & Co** New York · United States 2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/jpmorgan-chase-co/) · [🎓**Osaka Prefecture University** Sakai · Japan 1998–2002 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/02cf1je33) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 7 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).[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/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) 🧭 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/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanchao-sun/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Checklists Are Better Than Reward Models For Aligning Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/viswanathan-2025-checklists-better-than-reward-models/)** *(2025 · 37 citations)* Reinforcement learning works well for tasks with checkable answers. It is much harder to apply to open-ended instruction following, where reward models can be gamed and generic criteria such as "helpfulness" miss request-specific needs. The authors propose Reinforcement Learning from Checklist Feedback (RLCF), which… 2. **[Hilbert: Recursively Building Formal Proofs with Informal Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/varambally-2025-hilbert-recursively-building-formal-proofs/)** *(2025 · 26 citations)* Large language models handle informal mathematics well, but their arguments often contain errors that are hard to check. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Graham Neubig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/graham-neubig/) - [Meng Cao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meng-cao/) - [Rose Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rose-yu/) - [Shuang Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuang-ma/) - [Tongshuang Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tongshuang-wu/) - [Vijay Viswanathan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vijay-viswanathan/) - [Xiang Kong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-kong/) - [Zhifeng Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhifeng-chen/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 62 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [20 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanchao-sun/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026