--- title: "Yifei Ming — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yifei Ming, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifei-ming/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifei-ming/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yifei Ming # Yifei Ming Yifei Ming has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/); often with [Shafiq Joty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shafiq-joty/), [Austin Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/austin-xu/), [Xuan-Phi Nguyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuan-phi-nguyen/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5035172001) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5035172001) · [23 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5035172001) · [285 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5035172001&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifei-ming/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 58 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifei-ming/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8512](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/86/#star-8512) 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=Yifei+Ming) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yifei+Ming) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yifei+Ming) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yifei+Ming) ## Affiliations [🏢**Salesforce** San Francisco · United States 2025–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/salesforce/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill** Chapel Hill · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/) · [🎓**University of Wisconsin–Madison** Madison · United States 2022–2024 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-wisconsin-madison/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 9 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/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Law · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/law/) · [Political Science and International Relations · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/political-science-and-international-relations/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Summarization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifei-ming/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifei-ming/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Does Context Matter? ContextualJudgeBench for Evaluating LLM-based Judges in Contextual Settings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2025-does-context-matter-contextualjudgebench-evaluating/)** *(2025 · 14 citations)* LLM judges are often marketed as general-purpose evaluators, but they are rarely tested on contextual tasks such as RAG and summarization, where a response must be grounded in supplied external material. 2. **[Discovering the Gems in Early Layers: Accelerating Long-Context LLMs with 1000x Input Token Reduction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2026-discovering-gems-early-layers-accelerating/)** *(2026 · 13 citations)* Long-context LLMs are costly to run. KV-cache eviction methods such as H2O and SnapKV make decoding cheaper, but they leave the prefilling phase untouched, and that phase becomes the main bottleneck as inputs grow. The authors observe that attention in early-to-middle layers already points to the tokens that matter… 3. **[Hard2Verify: A Step-Level Verification Benchmark for Open-Ended Frontier Math](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pandit-2026-hard2verify-step-level-verification-benchmark/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Frontier LLMs now write Olympiad-level proofs, such as the gold-medal results at IMO 2025. Training and evaluating such systems requires automatic verifiers that can judge each step of a proof, not just the final answer. Existing step-level benchmarks have weaknesses: they use easy questions, outputs from weak… ## 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 Survey of Frontiers in LLM Reasoning: Inference Scaling, Learning to Reason, and Agentic Systems ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09037) arXiv:2504.09037 · no summary yet**Zixuan Ke et al.*2025 · 39 citations* 2. **[Does Context Matter? ContextualJudgeBench for Evaluating LLM-based Judges in Contextual Settings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2025-does-context-matter-contextualjudgebench-evaluating/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Austin Xu, Srijan Bansal, Yifei Ming, et al.*2025 · 14 citations* 3. **[Discovering the Gems in Early Layers: Accelerating Long-Context LLMs with 1000x Input Token Reduction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2026-discovering-gems-early-layers-accelerating/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Zhenmei Shi, Yifei Ming, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, et al.*2026 · 13 citations* 4. **[Hard2Verify: A Step-Level Verification Benchmark for Open-Ended Frontier Math](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pandit-2026-hard2verify-step-level-verification-benchmark/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Shrey Pandit, Austin Xu, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, et al.*2026 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Shafiq Joty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shafiq-joty/) ×3 - [Austin Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/austin-xu/) ×2 - [Xuan-Phi Nguyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuan-phi-nguyen/) ×2 - [Caiming Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caiming-xiong/) - [Semih Yavuz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/semih-yavuz/) - [Srijan Bansal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srijan-bansal/) - [Yingyu Liang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yingyu-liang/) ## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/), [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 58 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [10 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifei-ming/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026