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# Yao Wan

Yao Wan has 3 papers in our library, in 2018–2026, most of them on [Speech act theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Dongping Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongping-chen/), [Jian Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-wu/), [Lichao Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lichao-sun/).

3 papers in our library · 2018–2026

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101555948) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6937-4180) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130833284) · [**h-index 23**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101555948) · [112 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101555948) · [2,248 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101555948&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-wan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 218 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-wan/cited-by/) · [10 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7256](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/73/#star-7256)

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

## Affiliations

[🎓**Huazhong University of Science and Technology** Wuhan · China 2019–2026 · 84 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 2015–2021 · 16 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) · [🎓**University of Technology Sydney** Sydney · Australia 2017–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-technology-sydney/) · [🏢**Salesforce** San Francisco · United States 2019–2020 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/salesforce/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Chicago** Chicago · United States 2018–2019 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-chicago/)

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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 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 · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Hardware and Architecture · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/hardware-and-architecture/) · [Software · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/)

🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech act theory · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech-act-theory/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-wan/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-wan/year/2024/)

### 2010s

[**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-wan/year/2018/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[MLLM-as-a-Judge: Assessing Multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge with Vision-Language Benchmark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2024-mllm-judge-assessing-multimodal-llm/)** *(2024 · 60 citations)* Automatic metrics for multimodal model outputs, such as exact matching or embedding similarity, miss fine-grained quality criteria.
2. **[Improved Dynamic Memory Network for Dialogue Act Classification with Adversarial Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wan-2018-improved-dynamic-memory-network-dialogue/)** *(2018 · 14 citations)* The paper addresses dialogue act (DA) classification: assigning each utterance in a conversation a label such as Question, Answer, Greeting or Backchannel that captures what the speaker intends.
3. **[VerilogLAVD: LLM-Aided Pattern Generation for Verilog CWE Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/long-2026-veriloglavd-llm-aided-pattern-generation/)** *(2026)* LLMs often miss security flaws in Verilog RTL because HDL code runs concurrently. A hardware vulnerability usually comes from several statements interacting in parallel rather than from one sequential path, so models that read raw code or flattened graphs tend to overlook it. VerilogLAVD changes the LLM's role.…

## All works

13 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[Discriminative Nearest Neighbor Few-Shot Intent Detection by Transferring Natural Language Inference ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.411/) Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · no summary yet**Jianguo Zhang et al.*2020 · 112 citations*
2. **[MetaTool Benchmark for Large Language Models: Deciding Whether to Use Tools and Which to Use ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03128) arXiv:2310.03128 · no summary yet**Yue Huang et al.*2023 · 81 citations*
3. [**MLLM-as-a-Judge: Assessing Multimodal LLM-as-a-Judge with Vision-Language Benchmark arXiv:2402.04788**Dongping Chen, Ruoxi Chen, Shilin Zhang, et al.*2024 · 60 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2024-mllm-judge-assessing-multimodal-llm/)
4. **[Enriching Non-Autoregressive Transformer with Syntactic and Semantic Structures for Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.105/) Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume · no summary yet**Ye Liu et al.*2021 · 22 citations*
5. **[Improved Dynamic Memory Network for Dialogue Act Classification with Adversarial Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wan-2018-improved-dynamic-memory-network-dialogue/) [IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-international-conference-on-big-data-bigdata/)**Yao Wan, Wenqiang Yan, Jianwei Gao, et al.*2018 · 14 citations*
6. **[NL2Formula: Generating Spreadsheet Formulas from Natural Language Queries ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-eacl.158/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2024 · no summary yet**Wei Zhao et al.*2024 · 11 citations*
7. **[Seeking and Updating with Live Visual Knowledge ↗](https://doi.org/10.52202/085713-2513) neural information processing systems · no summary yet**Mingyang Fu et al.*2025 · 7 citations*
8. **[Enriching Non-Autoregressive Transformer with Syntactic and SemanticStructures for Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.08942) arXiv:2101.08942 · no summary yet**Ye Liu et al.*2021 · 7 citations*
9. **[Interleaved Scene Graphs for Interleaved Text-and-Image Generation Assessment ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.17188) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Dongping Chen et al.*2024 · 6 citations*
10. **[Reinforced Visual Perception with Tools ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01656) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Zhou, Zetong et al.*2025 · 3 citations*
11. **[VerilogLAVD: LLM-Aided Pattern Generation for Verilog CWE Detection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/long-2026-veriloglavd-llm-aided-pattern-generation/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Xiang Long, Yingjie Xia, Li Kuang, et al.*2026*
12. **[code-transformed: The Influence of Large Language Models on Code ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-eacl.290/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026 · no summary yet**Yuliang Xu et al.*2026*
13. **[MultiRef: Controllable Image Generation with Multiple Visual References ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3746027.3758292) ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) · no summary yet**Ruoxi Chen et al.*2025*

## Co-authors here

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

- [Dongping Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongping-chen/)
- [Jian Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-wu/)
- [Lichao Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lichao-sun/)
- [Pan Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pan-zhou/)
- [Philip S. Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/philip-s-yu/)
- [Qihui Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qihui-zhang/)
- [Shilin Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shilin-zhang/)
- [Xiang Long](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-long/)
- [Zhou Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhou-zhao/)

## Venues

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

- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EACL 2026 ×2
- [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/)
- [IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-international-conference-on-big-data-bigdata/): [BigData 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-international-conference-on-big-data-bigdata/2018/)
- ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM)
- Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume
- Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
- neural information processing systems

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 218 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [35 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-wan/cited-by/).

Updated 1 November 2026