--- title: "Yi Mao — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yi Mao: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 20 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-mao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-mao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yi Mao # Yi Mao Yi Mao has 3 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Weizhu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weizhu-chen/), [Baolin Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/baolin-peng/), [Bei Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bei-chen/). 3 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5065378241) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8624-772X) · [**h-index 20**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5065378241) · [115 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5065378241) · [1,790 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5065378241&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-mao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 304 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-mao/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4982](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/50/#star-4982) 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+Mao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yi+Mao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yi+Mao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yi+Mao) ## Affiliations [🎓**Hohai University** Nanjing · China 2015–2025 · 24 papersEmployment · Professor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hohai-university/) · [🎓**Hunan University** Changsha · China 2004–2013 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hunan-university/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2012–2022 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics** Nanjing · China 2016–2021 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanjing-university-of-aeronautics-and-astronautics/) · [🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 2002–2018 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) · [🎓**Purdue University West Lafayette** West Lafayette · United States 2006–2012 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/purdue-university-west-lafayette/) · [🎓**National University of Defense Technology** Changsha · China 2020–2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-defense-technology/) · [🔬**The 28th Research Institute of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation** Nanjing · China 2020 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/05355jx47) · [🎓**SUNY Upstate Medical University** Syracuse · United States 2016–2017 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/040kfrw16) · [🎓**Washington University in St. Louis** St Louis · United States 2012–2013 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/washington-university-in-st-louis/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 15 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).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Software · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Code & programming languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Text generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](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** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-mao/year/2023/) · [**2022** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-mao/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Token-level Reference-free Hallucination Detection Benchmark for Free-form Text Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2022-token-level-reference-free-hallucination/)** *(2022 · 142 citations)* Large generative models such as GPT-3 often produce false or invented content. Most detection methods compare output against a gold reference and judge whole sentences or documents. Many free-form generation settings, such as chatbots or auto-completion, have no reference, and coarse judgments cannot locate the… 2. **[Explanations from Large Language Models Make Small Reasoners Better](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2022-explanations-large-language-models-make/)** *(2022 · 120 citations)* Small language models (SLM) are cheaper to store and run than LLMs, but they fall well behind on complex reasoning. 3. **[RepoCoder: Repository-Level Code Completion Through Iterative Retrieval and Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2023-repocoder-repository-level-code-completion/)** *(2023 · 119 citations)* Most code completion tools see only the current file. Useful hints such as shared helpers, API signatures and project-specific naming are spread across the rest of the repository. RepoCoder uses this wider context without fine-tuning, static analysis or hand-written rules. It cuts repository files into overlapping… ## All works 4 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. **[A Token-level Reference-free Hallucination Detection Benchmark for Free-form Text Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2022-token-level-reference-free-hallucination/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Tianyu Liu, Yizhe Zhang, Chris Brockett, et al.*2022 · 142 citations* 2. [**Explanations from Large Language Models Make Small Reasoners Better arXiv:2210.06726**Shiyang Li, Jianshu Chen, Yelong Shen, et al.*2022 · 120 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2022-explanations-large-language-models-make/) 3. [**RepoCoder: Repository-Level Code Completion Through Iterative Retrieval and Generation arXiv:2303.12570**Fengji Zhang, Bei Chen, Yue Zhang, et al.*2023 · 119 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2023-repocoder-repository-level-code-completion/) 4. **[Exploiting Structured Knowledge in Text via Graph-Guided Representation Learning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.722/) Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · no summary yet**Tao Shen et al.*2020 · 87 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 of 21 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Weizhu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weizhu-chen/) ×2 - [Baolin Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/baolin-peng/) - [Bei Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bei-chen/) - [Bill Dolan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bill-dolan/) - [Chris Brockett](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-brockett/) - [Daoguang Zan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daoguang-zan/) - [Hong Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hong-wang/) - [Jian-Guang Lou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-guang-lou/) - [Jianshu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianshu-chen/) - [Jing Qian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jing-qian/) - [Shiyang Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shiyang-li/) - [Tianyu Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyu-liu/) ## 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 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2022/) - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 304 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [88 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-mao/cited-by/). 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