--- title: "Yi Cao — author profile and papers · Question answering" description: "Yi Cao: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-cao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-cao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yi Cao # Yi Cao Yi Cao has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Dakuo Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dakuo-wang/), [Fei Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-liu/), [Feng Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/feng-zhao/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5139810049) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5139810049) · [2 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139810049) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139810049&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-cao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 30 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-cao/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8200](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/82/#star-8200) 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=Yi+Cao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yi+Cao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yi+Cao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yi+Cao) ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 12 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [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/) · [Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/) · [General Health Professions · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/health-professions/general-health-professions/) · [Health Informatics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/health-informatics/) · [Health Professions · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/health-professions/) · [Medicine · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [Molecular Biology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/molecular-biology/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-cao/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-cao/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[PaniniQA: Enhancing Patient Education Through Interactive Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cai-2023-paniniqa-enhancing-patient-education-through/)** *(2023 · 24 citations)* Patients leaving hospital often struggle to grasp or remember their discharge instructions, and their misreadings usually go uncorrected. PaniniQA addresses this with a chatbot that quizzes patients about their own instructions. It follows the Prompt–Evaluate–Expand–Repeat (P.E.E.R.) cycle from Dialogic Reading. 2. **[UniCorn: Towards Self-Improving Unified Multimodal Models through Self-Generated Supervision](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fang-2026-unicorn-self-improving-unified-multimodal/)** *(2026 · 11 citations)* Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) often judge images accurately but cannot produce scenes of the same quality themselves. 3. **[Sculpting the Vector Space: Towards Efficient Multi-Vector Visual Document Retrieval via Prune-then-Merge Framework](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yan-2026-sculpting-vector-space-efficient-multi/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Multi-vector models for Visual Document Retrieval (VDR), such as those in the ColPali family, represent each page as hundreds or thousands of patch embeddings. ## Co-authors here 12 of 18 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dakuo Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dakuo-wang/) - [Fei Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-liu/) - [Feng Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/feng-zhao/) - [Hong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hong-yu/) - [Huixue Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huixue-zhou/) - [James Tin-Yau Kwok](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/james-tin-yau-kwok/) - [Jiahao Huo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiahao-huo/) - [Lin Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lin-chen/) - [Pengshan Cai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pengshan-cai/) - [Shuliang Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuliang-liu/) - [Xin Zou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xin-zou/) - [Xuming Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuming-hu/) ## 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/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/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/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 30 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [9 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-cao/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026