--- title: "Yixin Ou — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yixin Ou, National University of Singapore: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2024), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yixin-ou/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yixin-ou/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yixin Ou # Yixin Ou Yixin Ou has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2024, 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 [Huajun Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huajun-chen/), [Ningyu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ningyu-zhang/), [Chuanqi Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuanqi-tan/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5003834274) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7656-8004) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5003834274) · [12 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5003834274) · [494 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5003834274&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yixin-ou/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 177 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yixin-ou/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6527](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/66/#star-6527) 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=Yixin+Ou) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yixin+Ou) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yixin+Ou) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yixin+Ou) ## Affiliations [🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 2022–2025 · 11 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) · [🏢**Ant Group** Hangzhou · China 2024–2025 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ant-group/) · [🎓**National University of Singapore** Singapore · Singapore 2025 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-singapore/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## 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).[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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 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 [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yixin-ou/year/2024/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yixin-ou/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Reasoning with Language Model Prompting: A Survey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qiao-2022-reasoning-language-model-prompting-survey/)** *(2022 · 161 citations)* This survey maps the fast-growing work on getting large language models to reason through prompting rather than through task-specific architectures. 2. **[Symbolic Learning Enables Self-Evolving Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2024-symbolic-learning-enables-self-evolving/)** *(2024 · 34 citations)* Building LLM-based agents today depends mostly on hand engineering. Developers split a task into steps, then write prompts and attach tools for each step. Earlier automatic optimizers such as DSPy, GPTSwarm, Agent-pro and AgentOptimizer tune only isolated parts, so they can get stuck in local optima. The authors… ## Co-authors here 12 of 15 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Huajun Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huajun-chen/) ×2 - [Ningyu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ningyu-zhang/) ×2 - [Chuanqi Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuanqi-tan/) - [Fei Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-huang/) - [Jialong Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jialong-wu/) - [Long Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/long-li/) - [Shuai Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuai-wang/) - [Shumin Deng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shumin-deng/) - [Shuofei Qiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuofei-qiao/) - [Tiannan Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tiannan-wang/) - [Wangchunshu Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wangchunshu-zhou/) - [Xiang Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-chen/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 177 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [46 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yixin-ou/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026