--- title: "Yanfang Ye — author profile and papers · Question answering" description: "Yanfang Ye, University of Notre Dame: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanfang-ye/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanfang-ye/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yanfang Ye # Yanfang Ye Yanfang Ye has 4 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Knowledge graphs & ontologies](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/); often with [Chuxu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuxu-zhang/), [Zheyuan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zheyuan-zhang/), [Kaiwen Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaiwen-shi/). 4 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5130388966) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6002-125X) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5130388966) · [7 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5130388966) · [2 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5130388966&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanfang-ye/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 5 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanfang-ye/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10102](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/102/#star-10102) 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=Yanfang+Ye) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yanfang+Ye) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yanfang+Ye) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yanfang+Ye) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Notre Dame** Notre Dame · United States 2026 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-notre-dame/) 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 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Management Science and Operations Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/management-science-and-operations-research/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Question answering · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Knowledge graphs & ontologies · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/knowledge-graphs/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanfang-ye/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AgentRouter: A Knowledge-Graph-Guided LLM Router for Collaborative Multi-Agent Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-agentrouter-knowledge-graph-guided-llm/)** *(2026 · 4 citations)* With so many LLMs and agent strategies available, it is hard to know which configuration will work best for a given QA task. 2. **[MAPRO: Recasting Multi-Agent Prompt Optimization as Maximum a Posteriori Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-mapro-recasting-multi-agent-prompt/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* LLM-based multi-agent systems are fragile. Each agent reacts strongly to its prompt, and mistakes spread along the chain of hand-offs. Automating prompt design for such systems is hard for two reasons. The joint space of prompt candidates grows exponentially, and it is unclear which agent caused a failure. MAPRO… 3. **[What Makes LLMs Effective Sequential Recommenders? A Study on Preference Intensity and Temporal Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ouyang-2026-what-makes-llms-effective-sequential/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* LLM-based sequential recommenders are usually tuned with DPO-style alignment, which reduces user feedback to simple preferred-versus-dispreferred pairs. 4. **[NG-Router: Graph-Supervised Multi-Agent Collaboration for Nutrition Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2026-ng-router-graph-supervised-multi/)** *(2026)* The paper tackles nutrition question answering, where a system must judge whether a food suits a particular person given their health conditions, habits and the food's nutritional profile. ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chuxu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuxu-zhang/) ×3 - [Zheyuan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zheyuan-zhang/) ×3 - [Kaiwen Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaiwen-shi/) ×2 - [Keerthiram Murugesan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/keerthiram-murugesan/) ×2 - [Vincent Galassi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vincent-galassi/) ×2 - [Zhengqing Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengqing-yuan/) ×2 - [Chunhui Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chunhui-zhang/) - [Soroush Vosoughi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/soroush-vosoughi/) - [Tianyi Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyi-ma/) - [Zehong Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zehong-wang/) - [Zhongyu Ouyang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhongyu-ouyang/) ## 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 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) ×2 - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - [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 5 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [3 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanfang-ye/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026