--- title: "Yantao Shen — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yantao Shen, University of Nevada, Reno: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yantao-shen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yantao-shen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yantao Shen # Yantao Shen Yantao Shen has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, 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/), [Efficient models & compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/); often with [Stefano Soatto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefano-soatto/), [Dhananjay Ram](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dhananjay-ram/), [Shuo Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuo-yang/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5102939275) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5413-2445) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5102939275) · [40 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102939275) · [1,406 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102939275&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yantao-shen/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 22 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yantao-shen/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10839](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/109/#star-10839) 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=Yantao+Shen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yantao+Shen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yantao+Shen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yantao+Shen) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Nevada, Reno** Reno · United States 2008–2025 · 7 papers*current*](https://ror.org/01keh0577) · [🎓**Chinese University of Hong Kong** Hong Kong · China 2002–2020 · 15 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/chinese-university-of-hong-kong/) · [🎓**Michigan State University** East Lansing · United States 2003–2008 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/michigan-state-university/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2022–2024 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [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/) · [Control and Systems Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/control-and-systems-engineering/) · [Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) 🧭 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/) · [Efficient models & compression · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-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/yantao-shen/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yantao-shen/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Reinforcement-aware Knowledge Distillation for LLM Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-reinforcement-aware-knowledge-distillation-llm/)** *(2026 · 13 citations)* Long chain-of-thought reasoning models trained with RL are expensive to run, so practitioners distill them into smaller students. 2. **[B'MOJO: Hybrid State Space Realizations of Foundation Models with Eidetic and Fading Memory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zancato-2024-b-mojo-hybrid-state-space/)** *(2024 · 11 citations)* Current sequence models store the past in one of two ways. Transformers keep an exact (eidetic) record of recent tokens, but only within a bounded context. State Space Models compress the whole history into a lossy (fading) state. Hybrids such as Jamba combine both, but they give little control over the balance and… ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Stefano Soatto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stefano-soatto/) ×2 - [Dhananjay Ram](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dhananjay-ram/) - [Shuo Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuo-yang/) - [Wei Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-xia/) - [Yuting Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuting-zhang/) - [Zhaoyang Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhaoyang-zhang/) - [Zhuowen Tu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhuowen-tu/) ## 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 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 22 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yantao-shen/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026