--- title: "Yihua Zhang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yihua Zhang, Xi'an Jiaotong University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yihua-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yihua-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yihua Zhang # Yihua Zhang Yihua Zhang has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, 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/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Sijia Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sijia-liu/), [Jinghan Jia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinghan-jia/), [Liang Luo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liang-luo/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5111193684) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7536-2254) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5111193684) · [11 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5111193684) · [39 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5111193684&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yihua-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 30 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yihua-zhang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9155](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/92/#star-9155) 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=Yihua+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yihua+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yihua+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yihua+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Xi'an Jiaotong University** Xi'an · China 2025–2026 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/xi-an-jiaotong-university/) · [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [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 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yihua-zhang/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yihua-zhang/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[SOUL: Unlocking the Power of Second-Order Optimization for LLM Unlearning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jia-2024-soul-unlocking-power-second-order/)** *(2024 · 46 citations)* The paper addresses LLM unlearning: removing the effect of unwanted data, such as private, copyrighted or toxic content, without full retraining and without harming general utility. 2. **[ReasonRec: A Reasoning-Augmented Multimodal Agent for Unified Recommendation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-reasonrec-reasoning-augmented-multimodal-agent/)** *(2026)* Current multimodal recommenders fuse images and text well, but they decide in one opaque forward pass. They cannot recognise when they are unsure and spend equal compute on easy and hard queries. ReasonRec, from Meta AI with Michigan State and UNC Chapel Hill collaborators, treats recommendation as an agent loop with… ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Sijia Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sijia-liu/) ×2 - [Jinghan Jia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinghan-jia/) - [Liang Luo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liang-luo/) - [Rong Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rong-jin/) - [Tianlong Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianlong-chen/) - [Yimeng Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yimeng-zhang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2024/) - [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 30 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/yihua-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026