--- title: "Yian Wang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yian Wang, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yian-wang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yian-wang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yian Wang # Yian Wang Yian Wang has 3 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Chengyou Jia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengyou-jia/), [Fangzhi Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fangzhi-xu/), [Kanzhi Cheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kanzhi-cheng/). 3 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5123394653) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0004-0506-2718) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5123394653) · [4 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5123394653) · [1 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5123394653&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yian-wang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 108 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yian-wang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6620](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/67/#star-6620) 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=Yian+Wang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yian+Wang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yian+Wang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yian+Wang) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California, Irvine** Irvine · United States 2025–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-irvine/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) 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 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Human-Computer Interaction · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/human-computer-interaction/) · [Software · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/) · [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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yian-wang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yian-wang/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yian-wang/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[OS-ATLAS: A Foundation Action Model for Generalist GUI Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wu-2024-os-atlas-foundation-action-model/)** *(2024 · 67 citations)* GUI agents that operate directly on screenshots usually depend on proprietary vision-language models such as GPT-4o. 2. **[OS-Genesis: Automating GUI Agent Trajectory Construction via Reverse Task Synthesis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2025-os-genesis-automating-gui-agent/)** *(2025 · 48 citations)* Training GUI agents built on Vision-Language Models requires full interaction trajectories: an overall goal, step instructions, actions, and screen states. 3. **[CausalDetox: Causal Head Selection and Intervention for Language Model Detoxification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-causaldetox-causal-head-selection-intervention/)** *(2026)* LLMs often produce toxic output. Existing fixes tend to hurt fluency, depend on expensive human labeling, or change many parameters. CausalDetox addresses this by finding the small group of attention heads that actually cause toxic generation. Each head is scored with the Probability of Necessity and Sufficiency… ## Co-authors here 12 of 15 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chengyou Jia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengyou-jia/) ×2 - [Fangzhi Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fangzhi-xu/) ×2 - [Kanzhi Cheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kanzhi-cheng/) ×2 - [Liheng Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liheng-chen/) ×2 - [Qiushi Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qiushi-sun/) ×2 - [Zhenyu Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhenyu-wu/) ×2 - [Zichen Ding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zichen-ding/) ×2 - [Ben Kao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ben-kao/) - [Chuanyang Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuanyang-jin/) - [Guohao Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guohao-li/) - [Paul Pu Liang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-pu-liang/) - [Yu Qiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-qiao/) ## 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 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 108 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [36 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yian-wang/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026