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# Yanghao Li

Yanghao Li has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2025, 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/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Bowen Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-zhang/), [Kaiming He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaiming-he/), [Piotr Dollar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/piotr-dollar/).

2 papers in our library · 2021–2025

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5029760000) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5274-1367) · [**h-index 28**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5029760000) · [62 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029760000) · [16,764 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029760000&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanghao-li/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 715 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanghao-li/cited-by/) · [12 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3335](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/34/#star-3335)

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=Yanghao+Li) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yanghao+Li) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yanghao+Li) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yanghao+Li)

## Affiliations

[🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2017–2026 · 15 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) · [🎓**Peking University** Beijing · China 2014–2020 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/peking-university/) · [🏢**Meta** Menlo Park · United States 2020–2022 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta/) · [🎓**University of Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2019–2025 · 2 papers](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. 3 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [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/)

🧭 Topics 3 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/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanghao-li/year/2025/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanghao-li/year/2021/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Masked Autoencoders Are Scalable Vision Learners](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2021-masked-autoencoders-scalable-vision-learners/)** *(2021 · 596 citations)* Self-supervised pre-training by predicting removed content transformed NLP (BERT, GPT), but comparable autoencoding approaches in computer vision lagged behind.
2. **[Improve Vision Language Model Chain-of-thought Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-improve-vision-language-model-chain/)** *(2025 · 42 citations)* Most training data for vision language models (VLMs) pairs images with very brief answers and little explanation. The authors show that this limits chain-of-thought (CoT) ability. Fine-tuning on short ChartQA answers improved direct prediction but barely changed CoT accuracy.

## All works

14 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. **[Multiscale Vision Transformers ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv48922.2021.00675) IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · no summary yet**Haoqi Fan et al.*2021 · 1,374 citations*
2. **[Scale-Aware Trident Networks for Object Detection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv.2019.00615) IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · no summary yet**Yanghao Li et al.*2019 · 1,103 citations*
3. **[Co-Occurrence Feature Learning for Skeleton Based Action Recognition Using Regularized Deep LSTM Networks ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v30i1.10451) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Wentao Zhu et al.*2016 · 923 citations*
4. **[Exploring Plain Vision Transformer Backbones for Object Detection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20077-9_17) Lecture notes in computer science · no summary yet**Yanghao Li et al.*2022 · 872 citations*
5. **[MViTv2: Improved Multiscale Vision Transformers for Classification and Detection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr52688.2022.00476) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Yanghao Li et al.*2022 · 845 citations*
6. [**Masked Autoencoders Are Scalable Vision Learners arXiv:2111.06377**Kaiming He, Xinlei Chen, Saining Xie, et al.*2021 · 596 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2021-masked-autoencoders-scalable-vision-learners/)
7. **[Demystifying Neural Style Transfer ↗](https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/310) International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Yanghao Li et al.*2017 · 526 citations*
8. **[Masked Autoencoders as Spatiotemporal Learners ↗](https://doi.org/10.52202/068431-2605) neural information processing systems · no summary yet**Christoph Feichtenhofer et al.*2022 · 302 citations*
9. **[Scaling Language-Image Pre-Training via Masking ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr52729.2023.02240) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Yanghao Li et al.*2023 · 283 citations*
10. **[Benchmarking Detection Transfer Learning with Vision Transformers ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.11429) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Yanghao Li et al.*2021 · 86 citations*
11. **[Reversible Vision Transformers ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04869) arXiv:2302.04869 · no summary yet**Karttikeya Mangalam et al.*2023 · 64 citations*
12. **[PyTorchVideo ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3474085.3478329) ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) · no summary yet**Haoqi Fan et al.*2021 · 50 citations*
13. **[Improve Vision Language Model Chain-of-thought Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-improve-vision-language-model-chain/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Ruohong Zhang, Bowen Zhang, Yanghao Li, et al.*2025 · 42 citations*
14. **[PyTorchVideo: A Deep Learning Library for Video Understanding ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.09887) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Haoqi Fan et al.*2021 · 4 citations*

## Co-authors here

12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Bowen Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-zhang/)
- [Kaiming He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaiming-he/)
- [Piotr Dollar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/piotr-dollar/)
- [Ross Girshick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ross-girshick/)
- [Ruohong Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruohong-zhang/)
- [Ruoming Pang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruoming-pang/)
- [Saining Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saining-xie/)
- [Xinlei Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinlei-chen/)
- [Yiming Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiming-yang/)
- [Yinfei Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yinfei-yang/)
- [Zhe Gan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhe-gan/)
- [Zhiqing Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiqing-sun/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings ×2
- IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) ×2
- [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/)
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM)
- International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- Lecture notes in computer science
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
- neural information processing systems

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 715 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [38 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanghao-li/cited-by/).

Updated 30 October 2026