--- title: "Yiheng Zhao · Concordia University — author profile and papers" description: "Yiheng Zhao, Concordia University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiheng-zhao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiheng-zhao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yiheng Zhao # Yiheng Zhao Yiheng Zhao has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Jun Yan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jun-yan/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5130410054) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5130410054) · [6 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5130410054) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5130410054&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiheng-zhao/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 2 times in our library · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12662](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/127/#star-12662) 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=Yiheng+Zhao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yiheng+Zhao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yiheng+Zhao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yiheng+Zhao) ## Affiliations [🎓**Concordia University** Montreal · Canada 2026 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/concordia-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).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [General Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/general-social-sciences/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](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/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiheng-zhao/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Generating Effective CoT Traces for Mitigating Causal Hallucination](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-generating-effective-cot-traces-mitigating/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Small language models (≤1.5B parameters) often claim that two events are causally linked when they are not. 2. **[Mitigating Causal Bias in LLMs via Potential Outcomes Framework and Actual Causality Theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-mitigating-causal-bias-llms-potential/)** *(2026)* The paper studies causal bias in LLMs on document-level Event Causality Identification (ECI), the task of deciding whether one event in a text causes another. ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jun Yan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jun-yan/) ×2 ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/) ×2: [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ×2 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). Updated 2 November 2026