--- title: "Yuanshun Yao — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yuanshun Yao: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuanshun-yao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuanshun-yao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yuanshun Yao # Yuanshun Yao Yuanshun Yao has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, 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/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Jingyu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingyu-zhang/), [Madian Khabsa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/madian-khabsa/), [Shengjie Bi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shengjie-bi/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5014146843) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5014146843) · [38 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5014146843) · [2,546 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5014146843&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuanshun-yao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 129 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuanshun-yao/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5933](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/60/#star-5933) 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=Yuanshun+Yao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yuanshun+Yao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yuanshun+Yao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yuanshun+Yao) ## Affiliations [🏢**ByteDance** Beijing · China 2023–2025 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/bytedance/) · [🎓**University of Chicago** Chicago · United States 2017–2023 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-chicago/) · [🎓**University of California, Santa Barbara** Santa Barbara · United States 2017 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-barbara/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 5 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [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 [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuanshun-yao/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuanshun-yao/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Large Language Model Unlearning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yao-2023-large-language-model-unlearning/)** *(2023 · 174 citations)* The paper treats unlearning as a cheap alignment tool for LLMs. The idea is to make a model drop unwanted behaviour using only negative examples, such as harmful replies found through red teaming or user reports, without the human-written positive answers that RLHF needs. The authors define the setting, goals and… 2. **[Beyond Reasoning Gains: Mitigating General-Capability Forgetting in Large Reasoning Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/phan-2026-beyond-reasoning-gains-mitigating-general/)** *(2026)* Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) improves math and multimodal reasoning, but it tends to wear away skills a model already had, such as perception, OCR and robustness. ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jingyu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingyu-zhang/) - [Madian Khabsa](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/madian-khabsa/) - [Shengjie Bi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shengjie-bi/) - [Xianjun Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xianjun-yang/) - [Yang Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-liu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 129 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/yuanshun-yao/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026