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# Yihao Liu

Yihao Liu has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Efficient models & compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/); often with [Mengyu Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mengyu-zhou/), [Dongmei Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongmei-zhang/), [Haoyu Dong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haoyu-dong/).

2 papers in our library · 2025–2026

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100696068) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9874-0602) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130804864) · [**h-index 24**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100696068) · [119 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100696068) · [7,223 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100696068&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yihao-liu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 24 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yihao-liu/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11132](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/112/#star-11132)

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

## Affiliations

[🎓**Vanderbilt University** Nashville · United States 2025–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/vanderbilt-university/) · [🎓**South China Business College Guangdong University of Foreign Studies** Guangzhou · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/03adm0793) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2019–2025 · 23 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🔬**Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology** Shenzhen · China 2019–2025 · 21 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/shenzhen-institutes-of-advanced-technology/) · [🎓**University of Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2014–2025 · 21 papersEducation 2014–2018 · Bachelor of EngineeringEducation 2018–2023 · Doctor of Philosophy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2021–2025 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🔬**Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Shanghai · China 2023–2025 · 11 papersEmployment since 2023 · Researcher](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/shanghai-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) · [🎓**China University of Geosciences (Beijing)** Beijing · China 2021–2023 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/china-university-of-geosciences-beijing/) · [🔬**State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and Mineral Resources** Wuhan 2021–2023 · 4 papers](https://ror.org/04sg95s75) · [🎓**Nanyang Technological University** Singapore · Singapore 2021–2024 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanyang-technological-university/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 29 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 5 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/)

🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Efficient models & compression · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) · [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/yihao-liu/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yihao-liu/year/2025/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Trace2Skill: Distill Trajectory-Local Lessons into Transferable Agent Skills](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ni-2026-trace2skill-distill-trajectory-local-lessons/)** *(2026 · 12 citations)* LLM agents increasingly depend on skill files, which are reusable documents describing procedures for a domain.
2. **[TableLoRA: Low-rank Adaptation on Table Structure Understanding for Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2025-tablelora-low-rank-adaptation-table/)** *(2025 · 8 citations)* Large language models often misread tables when tuned with parameter-efficient methods such as LoRA. Flattening a grid into a token sequence hides which cells share a row or column, and nested headers become hard to interpret. TableLoRA is a PEFT-compatible module that addresses these problems with two components:

## All works

5 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. **[RankSRGAN: Generative Adversarial Networks With Ranker for Image Super-Resolution ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv.2019.00319) IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · no summary yet**Wenlong Zhang et al.*2019 · 406 citations*
2. **[FD-GAN: Generative Adversarial Networks with Fusion-Discriminator for Single Image Dehazing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i07.6701) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Dong Yu et al.*2020 · 294 citations*
3. **[Learn to Match: Automatic Matching Network Design for Visual Tracking ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv48922.2021.01309) IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · no summary yet**Zhipeng Zhang et al.*2021 · 262 citations*
4. [**Trace2Skill: Distill Trajectory-Local Lessons into Transferable Agent Skills arXiv:2603.25158**Jingwei Ni, Yihao Liu, Xinpeng Liu, et al.*2026 · 12 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ni-2026-trace2skill-distill-trajectory-local-lessons/)
5. **[TableLoRA: Low-rank Adaptation on Table Structure Understanding for Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-2025-tablelora-low-rank-adaptation-table/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Xinyi He, Yihao Liu, Mengyu Zhou, et al.*2025 · 8 citations*

## Co-authors here

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

- [Mengyu Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mengyu-zhou/) ×2
- [Dongmei Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongmei-zhang/)
- [Haoyu Dong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haoyu-dong/)
- [Jingwei Ni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingwei-ni/)
- [Shi Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shi-han/)
- [Xiaoxi Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaoxi-jiang/)
- [Xinyi He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyi-he/)
- [Yutao Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yutao-sun/)

## Venues

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

- IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) ×2
- [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/)
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 24 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [4 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yihao-liu/cited-by/).

Updated 3 November 2026
