--- title: "Yiren Zhao · University of Toronto — author profile and papers" description: "Yiren Zhao, University of Toronto: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 15 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiren-zhao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiren-zhao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yiren Zhao # Yiren Zhao Yiren Zhao has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [GPU & parallel computing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/gpu-parallel-computing/); often with [Yarin Gal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yarin-gal/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5048483915) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0005-2486-1491) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5048483915) · [80 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5048483915) · [1,038 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5048483915&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiren-zhao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 107 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiren-zhao/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5263](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/53/#star-5263) 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=Yiren+Zhao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yiren+Zhao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yiren+Zhao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yiren+Zhao) ## Affiliations [🎓**Imperial College London** London · United Kingdom 2016–2026 · 35 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/imperial-college-london/) · [🎓**University of Toronto** Toronto · Canada 2021–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-toronto/) · [🎓**The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)** Guangzhou · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology-guangzhou/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2018–2023 · 26 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🏢**Tencent** Shenzhen · China 2023–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/tencent/) · [🎓**Hainan University** Haikou · China 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hainan-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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 9 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Information Systems and Management · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/information-systems-and-management/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Hardware and Architecture · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/hardware-and-architecture/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[GPU & parallel computing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/gpu-parallel-computing/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiren-zhao/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiren-zhao/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Curse of Recursion: Training on Generated Data Makes Models Forget](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shumailov-2023-curse-recursion-training-generated-data/)** *(2023 · 255 citations)* Generative models are increasingly filling the web with text and images, so future models will likely be trained partly on their predecessors' output. 2. **[Deep Kernel Fusion for Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-deep-kernel-fusion-transformers/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* In long-context, agentic LLM inference, decoding is limited more by memory bandwidth than by compute. The large SwiGLU MLP weights do not fit in cache, so these blocks become a costly and rarely optimized part of the Transformer. The authors present DeepFusionKernel, a CUDA operator that merges the Up and Gate GEMMs… ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Yarin Gal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yarin-gal/) ## 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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 107 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [24 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiren-zhao/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026