--- title: "Ying-Cong Chen — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Ying-Cong Chen, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 27 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ying-cong-chen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ying-cong-chen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ying-Cong Chen # Ying-Cong Chen Ying-Cong Chen 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 [Feng Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/feng-chen/), [Hui Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hui-xiong/), [Mingyang Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingyang-zhang/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101938761) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9565-8205) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q131166534) · [**h-index 27**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101938761) · [130 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101938761) · [2,812 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101938761&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ying-cong-chen/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 3 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ying-cong-chen/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12663](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/127/#star-12663) 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=Ying-Cong+Chen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ying-Cong+Chen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ying-Cong+Chen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ying-Cong+Chen) ## Affiliations [🎓**The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)** Guangzhou · China 2021–2026 · 93 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology-guangzhou/) · [🎓**Hong Kong University of Science and Technology** Hong Kong · China 2021–2026 · 55 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**University of Hong Kong** Pok Fu Lam · China 2023–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-hong-kong/) · [🔬**HKUST Shenzhen Research Institute** Nanshan · China 2025–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/00sz56h79) · [🎓**Chinese University of Hong Kong** Hong Kong · China 2017–2025 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/chinese-university-of-hong-kong/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2020–2022 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Sun Yat-sen University** Guangzhou · China 2013–2017 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sun-yat-sen-university/) · [🔬**MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Cambridge · United States 2020 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) · [🏢**Know Center Research GmbH** Graz · Austria 2026 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/004zhad81) · [🎓**Nanjing University** Nanjing · China 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanjing-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computational Mechanics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/computational-mechanics/) · [Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) 🧭 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** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ying-cong-chen/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Less is More: Improving LLM Reasoning with Minimal Test-Time Intervention](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-less-is-more-improving-llm/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Test-time scaling techniques such as self-consistency or tree search make LLMs reason better, but they pay for it with heavy extra inference compute. 2. **[SceneLM: 3D-Aware Language Models for Editable 3D Scene Synthesis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yao-2026-scenelm-3d-aware-language-models/)** *(2026)* SceneLM addresses the problem of building an editable 3D scene from one RGB image. Geometry-based pipelines give good quality but usually have to be rerun to fix errors. LLM tool-using systems are interactive but work mainly from text and lack metric 3D understanding. SceneLM reframes the task as two steps. First, a… ## All works 4 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. **[Learning to Know Where to See: A Visibility-Aware Approach for Occluded Person Re-identification ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv48922.2021.01167) IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · no summary yet**Jinrui Yang et al.*2021 · 89 citations* 2. **[Homomorphic Latent Space Interpolation for Unpaired Image-To-Image Translation ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2019.00251) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Ying-Cong Chen et al.*2019 · 59 citations* 3. **[Less is More: Improving LLM Reasoning with Minimal Test-Time Intervention](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2026-less-is-more-improving-llm/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Zhen Yang, Mingyang Zhang, Feng Chen, et al.*2026 · 2 citations* 4. **[SceneLM: 3D-Aware Language Models for Editable 3D Scene Synthesis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yao-2026-scenelm-3d-aware-language-models/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Xingbo Yao, Xiaoyu Chen, Doudou Zhang, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Feng Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/feng-chen/) - [Hui Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hui-xiong/) - [Mingyang Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingyang-zhang/) - [Zhen Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-yang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [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](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/) - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ying-cong-chen/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026