--- title: "Yingyi Zhang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yingyi Zhang, City University of Hong Kong: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yingyi-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yingyi-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yingyi Zhang # Yingyi Zhang Yingyi Zhang 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 [Pengyue Jia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pengyue-jia/), [Wenlin Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenlin-zhang/), [Xiangyu Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiangyu-zhao/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5040965546) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9062-3428) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130941051) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5040965546) · [19 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5040965546) · [31 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5040965546&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yingyi-zhang/#papers) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13210](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/133/#star-13210) 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=Yingyi+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yingyi+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yingyi+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yingyi+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**City University of Hong Kong** Hong Kong · China 2025–2026 · 14 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/city-university-of-hong-kong/) · [🎓**Dalian University of Technology** Dalian · China 2023–2026 · 12 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dalian-university-of-technology/) 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 7 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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Cognitive Neuroscience · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/cognitive-neuroscience/) · [Neuroscience · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/) 🧭 Topics 2 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/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yingyi-zhang/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MemSearch-o1: Empowering Large Language Models with Reasoning-Aligned Memory Growth in Agentic Search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-memsearch-o1-empowering-large-language/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Agentic (deep) search lets an LLM alternate between reasoning and retrieval. Each round adds thinking traces and retrieved passages, so the context grows and key evidence gets buried. The authors call this memory dilution. Existing fixes that summarize, filter or prune memory often miss the shifting intent of… 2. **[Learning How and What to Memorize: Cognition-Inspired Two-Stage Optimization for Evolving Memory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-learning-how-what-memorize-cognition/)** *(2026)* LLM agents that personalize conversations over many sessions need a long-term user memory, because the context window cannot hold the whole history. ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Pengyue Jia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pengyue-jia/) ×2 - [Wenlin Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenlin-zhang/) ×2 - [Xiangyu Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiangyu-zhao/) ×2 - [Derong Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/derong-xu/) - [Enhong Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/enhong-chen/) - [Junyi Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junyi-li/) - [Maolin Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maolin-wang/) - [Sheng Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sheng-zhang/) - [Tong Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-xu/) - [Yimin Deng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yimin-deng/) - [Yong Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yong-liu/) ## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) ×2 Updated 2 November 2026