--- title: "Yifei Xin — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yifei Xin, Alibaba Group: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifei-xin/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifei-xin/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yifei Xin # Yifei Xin Yifei Xin has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/); often with [Deli Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deli-zhao/), [Guanzheng Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guanzheng-chen/), [Hang Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hang-zhang/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5063679203) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7792-6352) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5063679203) · [7 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5063679203) · [41 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5063679203&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifei-xin/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 154 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifei-xin/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7215](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/73/#star-7215) 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+Xin) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yifei+Xin) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yifei+Xin) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yifei+Xin) ## Affiliations [🏢**Alibaba DAMO Academy** Hangzhou · China 2024 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-damo-academy/) · [🏢**Alibaba Group** George Town · Cayman Islands 2024 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group-cayman-islands/) · [🏢**Alibaba Group** Hangzhou · China 2024 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group/) · [🎓**Peking University** Beijing · China 2023 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/peking-university/) 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](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/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifei-xin/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[VideoLLaMA 2: Advancing Spatial-Temporal Modeling and Audio Understanding in Video-LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cheng-2024-videollama-2-advancing-spatial-temporal/)** *(2024 · 118 citations)* Video-LLMs lag behind image-focused multimodal models because they fuse information across frames poorly and usually ignore the soundtrack. VideoLLaMA 2, from DAMO Academy (Alibaba Group), tackles both weaknesses while keeping the modular two-branch layout of the original VideoLLaMA. 2. **[Chain of Ideas: Revolutionizing Research Via Novel Idea Development with LLM Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2024-chain-ideas-revolutionizing-research/)** *(2024 · 47 citations)* Scientific literature grows so fast that researchers struggle to identify promising directions. Existing LLM ideation tools either prompt a model naively or fill its context with large, unorganized sets of papers. This can produce incoherent combinations of unrelated techniques. The authors propose the Chain-of-Ideas… ## Co-authors here 12 of 16 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Deli Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deli-zhao/) ×2 - [Guanzheng Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guanzheng-chen/) - [Hang Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hang-zhang/) - [Jiayan Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiayan-guo/) - [Lidong Bing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lidong-bing/) - [Long Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/long-li/) - [Ruochen Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruochen-zhao/) - [Sicong Leng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sicong-leng/) - [Weiwen Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiwen-xu/) - [Wenqi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenqi-zhang/) - [Xin Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xin-li/) - [Xingxuan Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingxuan-li/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 154 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [55 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifei-xin/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026