--- title: "Yining Lu · University of Notre Dame — author profile and papers" description: "Yining Lu, University of Notre Dame: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 25 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yining-lu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yining-lu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yining Lu # Yining Lu Yining Lu has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Code & programming languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/); often with [Meng Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meng-jiang/), [Changlong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/changlong-yu/), [Daniel Khashabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-khashabi/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5042401335) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3967-645X) · [**h-index 25**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5042401335) · [121 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5042401335) · [1,856 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5042401335&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yining-lu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 16 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yining-lu/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9038](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/91/#star-9038) 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=Yining+Lu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yining+Lu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yining+Lu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yining+Lu) ## Affiliations [🏥**Guangxi Maternal and Child Health Hospital** Nanning · China 2025–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/0389fv189) · [🎓**University of Notre Dame** Notre Dame · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-notre-dame/) · [🔬**Mayo Clinic** Rochester · United States 2020–2025 · 53 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mayo-clinic/) · [🏥**Rush University Medical Center** Chicago · United States 2019–2023 · 26 papers](https://ror.org/01j7c0b24) · [🎓**Hebei Medical University** Shijiazhuang · China 2023–2025 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/04eymdx19) · [🏥**Third Hospital of Hebei Medical University** Shijiazhuang · China 2023–2025 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/004eknx63) · [🎓**Peoria campus of the University of Illinois System** Peoria · United States 2017–2020 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/02qrdc062) · [🎓**Cardiff Metropolitan University** Cardiff · United Kingdom 2021–2023 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/00bqvf857) · [🔬**State Key Laboratory of Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases** Hangzhou 2022–2023 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/00325dg83) · [🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 2022–2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 17 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).[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/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Code & programming languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yining-lu/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yining-lu/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Benchmarking Language Model Creativity: A Case Study on Code Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2025-benchmarking-language-model-creativity-case/)** *(2025 · 17 citations)* Most studies of LLM creativity focus on open-ended tasks such as story writing. This leaves open how creative models are when they solve problems. Two things have been missing: a way to push models beyond repetitive outputs, and a grounded, quantitative metric. Drawing on cognitive science, the authors treat… 2. **[Learning to Optimize Multi-Objective Alignment Through Dynamic Reward Weighting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2026-learning-optimize-multi-objective-alignment/)** *(2026 · 4 citations)* The paper addresses a weakness in multi-objective online RL for aligning LLMs. Combining rewards with fixed linear weights cannot reach solutions on non-convex parts of the Pareto front. It also keeps spending gradient effort on objectives that have already saturated. The authors propose dynamic reward weighting… ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Meng Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meng-jiang/) ×2 - [Changlong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/changlong-yu/) - [Daniel Khashabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-khashabi/) - [Dongwei Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongwei-jiang/) - [Qingyu Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qingyu-yin/) - [Sanjeev Khudanpur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanjeev-khudanpur/) - [Shiyang Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shiyang-li/) - [Tianjian Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianjian-li/) - [Xin Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xin-liu/) - [Zhan Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhan-shi/) - [Zilong Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zilong-wang/) - [Zixuan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zixuan-zhang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2025/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 16 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yining-lu/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026