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# Yi Fung

Yi Fung has 2 papers in our library, in 2023, 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/); often with [Chi Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chi-han/), [Yujia Qin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yujia-qin/), [Chaojun Xiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaojun-xiao/).

2 papers in our library · 2023

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5029408111) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1869-0363) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5029408111) · [81 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029408111) · [761 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029408111&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-fung/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 405 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-fung/cited-by/) · [6 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3561](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/36/#star-3561)

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

## Affiliations

[🎓**Hong Kong University of Science and Technology** Hong Kong · Hong Kong 2025–2026 · 16 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2020–2025 · 32 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 2018–2023 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) · [🎓**Yale University** New Haven · United States 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/yale-university/)

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.

## Concepts, shelves and topics

Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them.

📚 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/) · [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/) · [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 2 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/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2023** 2 papers Yi Fung's papers of 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-fung/year/2023/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Tool Learning with Foundation Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qin-2023-tool-learning-foundation-models/)** *(2023 · 378 citations)* This survey asks how large pretrained models can learn to operate external tools such as search engines, calculators, databases, image generators and robots.
2. **[CREATOR: Tool Creation for Disentangling Abstract and Concrete Reasoning of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qian-2023-creator-tool-creation-disentangling-abstract/)** *(2023 · 72 citations)* Tool-augmented LLMs usually depend on a fixed set of existing APIs. They must plan and execute in a single pass of implicit reasoning, which breaks easily, and they handle errors poorly. CREATOR addresses this by having the model write its own tools instead of only calling given ones. The framework has four stages.…

## All works

8 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. **[Tool Learning with Foundation Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qin-2023-tool-learning-foundation-models/) [ACM Computing Surveys](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acm-computing-surveys/)**Yujia Qin, Shengding Hu, Yankai Lin, et al.*2023 · 378 citations*
2. **[R-Tuning: Instructing Large Language Models to Say ‘I Don't Know' ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.naacl-long.394/) Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Hanning Zhang et al.*2024 · 95 citations*
3. **[CREATOR: Tool Creation for Disentangling Abstract and Concrete Reasoning of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qian-2023-creator-tool-creation-disentangling-abstract/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Cheng Qian, Chi Han, Yi Fung, et al.*2023 · 72 citations*
4. **[Word Embeddings Are Steers for Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.864/) Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Chi Han et al.*2024 · 47 citations*
5. **[Persona-DB: Efficient Large Language Model Personalization for Response Prediction with Collaborative Data Refinement ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.coling-main.20/) Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Chenkai Sun et al.*2025 · 27 citations*
6. **[VLM2-Bench: A Closer Look at How Well VLMs Implicitly Link Explicit Matching Visual Cues ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.372/) Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Jianshu Zhang et al.*2025 · 12 citations*
7. **[Let's Reason Formally: Natural-Formal Hybrid Reasoning Enhances LLM's Math Capability ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.850/) Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Ruida Wang et al.*2025 · 7 citations*
8. **[Mathematical Proof as a Litmus Test: Revealing Failure Modes of Advanced Large Reasoning Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.582/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Dadi Guo et al.*2026 · 5 citations*

## Co-authors here

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

- [Chi Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chi-han/) ×2
- [Yujia Qin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yujia-qin/) ×2
- [Chaojun Xiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaojun-xiao/)
- [Ganqu Cui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ganqu-cui/)
- [Heng Ji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heng-ji/)
- [Ning Ding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ning-ding/)
- [Shengding Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shengding-hu/)
- [Weize Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weize-chen/)
- [Yankai Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yankai-lin/)
- [Yufei Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yufei-huang/)
- [Yusheng Su](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yusheng-su/)
- [Zhiyuan Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyuan-liu/)

## Venues

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

- Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ×3
- [ACM Computing Surveys](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acm-computing-surveys/): [ACM Computing Surveys 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acm-computing-surveys/2023/)
- [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2023/)
- Proceedings of the 2024 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
- Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Computational Linguistics

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 405 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [43 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-fung/cited-by/).

Updated 24 October 2026