--- title: "Yiran Zhao — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yiran Zhao, Salesforce: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiran-zhao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiran-zhao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yiran Zhao # Yiran Zhao Yiran Zhao has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Kenji Kawaguchi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenji-kawaguchi/), [Junxian He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junxian-he/), [Lidong Bing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lidong-bing/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5022069733) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8060-1364) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5022069733) · [12 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5022069733) · [46 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5022069733&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiran-zhao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 273 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiran-zhao/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4456](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/45/#star-4456) 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=Yiran+Zhao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yiran+Zhao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yiran+Zhao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yiran+Zhao) ## Affiliations [🏢**Salesforce** San Francisco · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/salesforce/) · [🎓**National University of Singapore** Singapore · Singapore 2024–2025 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-singapore/) · [🏢**Alibaba Group** Hangzhou · China 2024–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group/) · [🏢**Alibaba DAMO Academy** Hangzhou · China 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-damo-academy/) · [🏢**Alibaba Group** George Town · Cayman Islands 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group-cayman-islands/) 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).[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/) · [Computer Networks and Communications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-networks-and-communications/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper Yiran Zhao's papers of 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2024-large-language-models-handle-multilingualism/) · [**2023** 1 paper Yiran Zhao's papers of 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2023-self-evaluation-guided-beam-search/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Self-Evaluation Guided Beam Search for Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2023-self-evaluation-guided-beam-search/)** *(2023 · 145 citations)* Large language models reason better when they write out intermediate steps, but in long chains small mistakes pile up, and the number of possible chains grows exponentially. 2. **[How do Large Language Models Handle Multilingualism?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2024-large-language-models-handle-multilingualism/)** *(2024 · 98 citations)* This paper investigates how large language models internally process non-English input. The authors decoded each layer's hidden states into vocabulary tokens for Vicuna-13b-v1.5 and BLOOMZ-7b1. Non-English queries shifted toward English-dominated representations in the middle layers and returned to the query language… ## All works 5 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. **[Self-Evaluation Guided Beam Search for Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2023-self-evaluation-guided-beam-search/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Yuxi Xie, Kenji Kawaguchi, Yiran Zhao, et al.*2023 · 145 citations* 2. **[How do Large Language Models Handle Multilingualism?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2024-large-language-models-handle-multilingualism/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Yiran Zhao, Wenxuan Zhang, Guizhen Chen, et al.*2024 · 98 citations* 3. **[Is Translation All You Need? A Study on Solving Multilingual Tasks with Large Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.485/) Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Chaoqun Liu et al.*2025 · 60 citations* 4. **[Disentangling Language and Culture for Evaluating Multilingual Large Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.1082/) Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Jiahao Ying et al.*2025 · 10 citations* 5. **[Babel: Open Multilingual Large Language Models Serving Over 90% of Global Speakers ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00865) arXiv:2503.00865 · no summary yet**Yiran Zhao et al.*2025 · 7 citations* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Kenji Kawaguchi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenji-kawaguchi/) ×2 - [Junxian He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junxian-he/) - [Lidong Bing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lidong-bing/) - [Min-Yen Kan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/min-yen-kan/) - [Qizhe Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qizhe-xie/) - [Wenxuan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenxuan-zhang/) - [Yuxi Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuxi-xie/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/) ×2: [NeurIPS 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2024/), [NeurIPS 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2023/) - Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) - Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 273 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [18 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiran-zhao/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026