--- title: "Yongshuo Zong — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yongshuo Zong, University of Edinburgh: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yongshuo-zong/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yongshuo-zong/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yongshuo Zong # Yongshuo Zong Yongshuo Zong 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/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Timothy M. Hospedales](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timothy-m-hospedales/), [Tingyang Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tingyang-yu/), [Bingchen Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bingchen-zhao/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5033350433) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3267-753X) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5033350433) · [25 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5033350433) · [668 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5033350433&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yongshuo-zong/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 77 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yongshuo-zong/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8787](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/88/#star-8787) 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=Yongshuo+Zong) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yongshuo+Zong) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yongshuo+Zong) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yongshuo+Zong) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2022–2026 · 11 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) · [🎓**Tongji University** Shanghai · China 2019–2021 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tongji-university/) · [🎓**Xiamen University** Xiamen · China 2020 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/xiamen-university/) 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).[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 Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [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 · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yongshuo-zong/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yongshuo-zong/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Safety Fine-Tuning at (Almost) No Cost: A Baseline for Vision Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zong-2024-safety-fine-tuning-almost-no/)** *(2024 · 60 citations)* Vision large language models (VLLMs) are usually built by fine-tuning an already safety-aligned LLM on vision-language instruction data. 2. **[Fool Your (Vision and) Language Model With Embarrassingly Simple Permutations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zong-2023-fool-vision-language-model-embarrassingly/)** *(2023 · 24 citations)* Benchmarks built on multiple-choice question answering (MCQA) are widely used to assess text-only LLMs and their vision-language counterparts, VLLMs. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Timothy M. Hospedales](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timothy-m-hospedales/) ×2 - [Tingyang Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tingyang-yu/) ×2 - [Bingchen Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bingchen-zhao/) - [Ondrej Bohdal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ondrej-bohdal/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 77 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [25 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yongshuo-zong/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026