--- title: "Yinlin Deng — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yinlin Deng, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yinlin-deng/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yinlin-deng/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yinlin Deng # Yinlin Deng Yinlin Deng has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Code & programming languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/); often with [Ansong Ni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ansong-ni/), [Arman Cohan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arman-cohan/), [Charles Sutton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charles-sutton/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5053846423) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4628-4219) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130811425) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5053846423) · [15 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5053846423) · [963 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5053846423&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yinlin-deng/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 121 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yinlin-deng/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7503](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/76/#star-7503) 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=Yinlin+Deng) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yinlin+Deng) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yinlin+Deng) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yinlin+Deng) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2022–2025 · 16 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Software · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/) · [Computer Science Applications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-science-applications/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Code & programming languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yinlin-deng/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Agentless: Demystifying LLM-based Software Engineering Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xia-2024-agentless-demystifying-llm-based/)** *(2024 · 117 citations)* Autonomous LLM agents for resolving GitHub issues have become elaborate. They plan their own steps, call custom tools and iterate over dozens of turns, which makes them costly, hard to debug and prone to compounding mistakes. The authors ask whether this machinery is actually needed and answer with Agentless, a fixed… 2. **[NExT: Teaching Large Language Models to Reason about Code Execution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ni-2024-next-teaching-large-language-models/)** *(2024 · 30 citations)* Code LLMs learn mostly from the static text of programs, so they often fail to anticipate what code actually does at run time. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ansong Ni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ansong-ni/) - [Arman Cohan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arman-cohan/) - [Charles Sutton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charles-sutton/) - [Chunqiu Steven Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chunqiu-steven-xia/) - [Kensen Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kensen-shi/) - [Lingming Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lingming-zhang/) - [Miltiadis Allamanis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miltiadis-allamanis/) - [Pengcheng Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pengcheng-yin/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 121 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [52 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yinlin-deng/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026