--- title: "Yilun Zhou · Dartmouth College — author profile and papers" description: "Yilun Zhou, Dartmouth College: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 16 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yilun-zhou/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yilun-zhou/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yilun Zhou # Yilun Zhou Yilun Zhou has 4 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/); often with [Caiming Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caiming-xiong/), [Austin Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/austin-xu/), [Shafiq Joty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shafiq-joty/). 4 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5074749353) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7085-3880) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92909345) · [**h-index 16**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5074749353) · [69 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5074749353) · [1,144 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5074749353&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yilun-zhou/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 123 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yilun-zhou/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7765](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/78/#star-7765) 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=Yilun+Zhou) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yilun+Zhou) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yilun+Zhou) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yilun+Zhou) ## Affiliations [🏢**Salesforce** San Francisco · United States 2024–2026 · 16 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/salesforce/) · [🎓**Dartmouth College** Hanover · United States 2025–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dartmouth-college/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2017–2023 · 21 papersEducation 2017–2023 · Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceEmployment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Cambridge · United States 2018–2023 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) · [🎓**Duke University** Durham · United States 2013–2016 · 2 papersEducation 2013–2016 · Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer EngineeringEducation 2013–2016 · Bachelor of Science, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/duke-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution 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 · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](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.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yilun-zhou/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yilun-zhou/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yilun-zhou/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Direct Judgement Preference Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2025-direct-judgement-preference-optimization/)** *(2025 · 35 citations)* LLM-as-judge models are usually trained with supervised finetuning on fairly small datasets and cover only narrow evaluation formats, often just pairwise comparison. 2. **[Shared Imagination: LLMs Hallucinate Alike](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2024-shared-imagination-llms-hallucinate-alike/)** *(2024 · 7 citations)* Modern LLMs are trained with very similar recipes, so the authors ask whether the resulting models are also similar in what they invent. 3. **[All for One: LLMs Solve Mental Math at the Last Token With Information Transferred From Other Tokens](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mamidanna-2025-all-one-llms-solve-mental/)** *(2025 · 6 citations)* The paper asks how much of a transformer's theoretical capacity for cross-token communication LLMs actually use when they do "mental math": one-token answers to two- or three-operand arithmetic, with no chain-of-thought. 4. **[J4R: Learning to Judge with Equivalent Initial State Group Relative Policy Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-j4r-learning-judge-equivalent-initial/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* LLM-as-judge models handle simple tasks like chat quality well, but they struggle to evaluate reasoning-heavy outputs. ## All works 6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[A Practical Review of Mechanistic Interpretability for Transformer-Based Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02646) arXiv:2407.02646 · no summary yet**Daking Rai et al.*2024 · 58 citations* 2. **[Direct Judgement Preference Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2025-direct-judgement-preference-optimization/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**PeiFeng Wang, Austin Xu, Yilun Zhou, et al.*2025 · 35 citations* 3. **[CHAMP: A Competition-level Dataset for Fine-Grained Analyses of LLMs' Mathematical Reasoning Capabilities ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.785/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 · no summary yet**Yujun Mao, Yoon Kim, Yilun Zhou*2024 · 34 citations* 4. [**Shared Imagination: LLMs Hallucinate Alike arXiv:2407.16604**Yilun Zhou, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese, et al.*2024 · 7 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2024-shared-imagination-llms-hallucinate-alike/) 5. **[All for One: LLMs Solve Mental Math at the Last Token With Information Transferred From Other Tokens](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mamidanna-2025-all-one-llms-solve-mental/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Siddarth Mamidanna, Daking Rai, Ziyu Yao, et al.*2025 · 6 citations* 6. **[J4R: Learning to Judge with Equivalent Initial State Group Relative Policy Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-j4r-learning-judge-equivalent-initial/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Austin Xu, Yilun Zhou, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, et al.*2026 · 3 citations* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Caiming Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caiming-xiong/) ×3 - [Austin Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/austin-xu/) ×2 - [Shafiq Joty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shafiq-joty/) ×2 - [Chien-Sheng Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chien-sheng-wu/) - [PeiFeng Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peifeng-wang/) - [Silvio Savarese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/silvio-savarese/) - [Xuan-Phi Nguyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuan-phi-nguyen/) - [Ziyu Yao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziyu-yao/) ## 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/) ×2: [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) ×2 - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 123 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [35 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yilun-zhou/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026