--- title: "Yanmin Zhu — author profile and papers · Dialogue systems" description: "Yanmin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 56 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanmin-zhu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanmin-zhu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yanmin Zhu # Yanmin Zhu Yanmin Zhu has 3 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Bin Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bin-li/), [Shuyu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuyu-zhang/), [Xinru Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinru-wang/). 3 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5081759167) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6406-4992) · [**h-index 56**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5081759167) · [458 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5081759167) · [11,419 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5081759167&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanmin-zhu/#papers) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13383](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/134/#star-13383) 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=Yanmin+Zhu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yanmin+Zhu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yanmin+Zhu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yanmin+Zhu) ## Affiliations [🎓**Shanghai Jiao Tong University** Shanghai · China 2008–2026 · 405 papersEmployment since 2008 · Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shanghai-jiao-tong-university/) · [🎓**Hong Kong University of Science and Technology** Hong Kong · China 2004–2014 · 31 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**Imperial College London** London · United Kingdom 2007–2009 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/imperial-college-london/) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2025–2026 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 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/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [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 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanmin-zhu/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[DarwinTOD: LLM-Driven Lifelong Self-evolution for Task-oriented Dialog Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-darwintod-llm-driven-lifelong-self/)** *(2026)* Task-oriented dialog (TOD) systems usually stay frozen after deployment. Pipeline designs pass errors from one module to the next, end-to-end LLM systems do not learn from use, and continual learning still depends on periodic retraining with curated data. DarwinTOD tackles this by letting a TOD system improve itself… 2. **[DyBBT: Dynamic Balance via Bandit-inspired Targeting for Dialog Policy with Cognitive Dual Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-dybbt-dynamic-balance-bandit-inspired/)** *(2026)* Deep RL dialog policies for task-oriented systems usually explore with fixed rules such as ϵ-greedy. These rules ignore how the value of exploring shifts over the course of a conversation. Evolutionary alternatives like EIERL scale poorly, and LLM deliberation is too costly to run at every turn. DyBBT treats the… 3. **[HiCoLoRA: Addressing Context-Prompt Misalignment via Hierarchical Collaborative LoRA for Zero-Shot DST](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-hicolora-addressing-context-prompt-misalignment/)** *(2026)* The paper addresses zero-shot dialog state tracking (zs-DST), in which a task-oriented dialog system must fill slots for domains it never saw during training. ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bin Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bin-li/) ×3 - [Shuyu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuyu-zhang/) ×3 - [Xinru Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinru-wang/) ×3 - [Yujie Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yujie-liu/) ×3 - [Yifan Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-wei/) ×2 - [Cheng Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-zhang/) - [Yixuan Weng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yixuan-weng/) ## 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 - [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/) Updated 2 November 2026