--- title: "Yuetai Li · University of Washington — author profile and papers" description: "Yuetai Li, University of Washington: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuetai-li/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuetai-li/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yuetai Li # Yuetai Li Yuetai Li has 2 papers in our library, in 2025, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Radha Poovendran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/radha-poovendran/), [Xiang Yue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-yue/), [Bhaskar Ramasubramanian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bhaskar-ramasubramanian/). 2 papers in our library · 2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5039253379) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5039253379) · [11 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039253379) · [31 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5039253379&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuetai-li/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 81 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuetai-li/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8737](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/88/#star-8737) 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=Yuetai+Li) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yuetai+Li) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yuetai+Li) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yuetai+Li) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 2024–2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🎓**Western Washington University** Bellingham · United States 2024–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/western-washington-university/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2025–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) 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 4 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/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuetai-li/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Small Models Struggle to Learn from Strong Reasoners](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2025-small-models-struggle-learn-strong/)** *(2025 · 61 citations)* Distilling reasoning traces from powerful LLMs into compact models is commonly assumed to help more as the teacher gets stronger. 2. **[Does Math Reasoning Improve General LLM Capabilities? Understanding Transferability of LLM Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huan-2025-math-reasoning-improve-general-llm/)** *(2025 · 25 citations)* The paper asks whether the rapid gains reasoning-tuned LLMs show on math benchmarks such as MATH and AIME reflect broader problem-solving skill or narrow specialization. ## All works 4 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. **[Small Models Struggle to Learn from Strong Reasoners](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2025-small-models-struggle-learn-strong/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Yuetai Li, Xiang Yue, Zhangchen Xu, et al.*2025 · 61 citations* 2. [**Does Math Reasoning Improve General LLM Capabilities? Understanding Transferability of LLM Reasoning arXiv:2507.00432**Maggie Huan, Yuetai Li, Tuney Zheng, et al.*2025 · 25 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huan-2025-math-reasoning-improve-general-llm/) 3. **[JobBench: Aligning Agent Work With Human Will ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.26329) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Yuetai Li et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 4. **[Context Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.37725) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Rulin Shao et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Radha Poovendran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/radha-poovendran/) ×2 - [Xiang Yue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-yue/) ×2 - [Bhaskar Ramasubramanian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bhaskar-ramasubramanian/) - [Bill Yuchen Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bill-yuchen-lin/) - [Fengqing Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fengqing-jiang/) - [Graham Neubig](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/graham-neubig/) - [Luyao Niu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luyao-niu/) - [Minxin Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minxin-du/) - [Seungone Kim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/seungone-kim/) - [Tuney Zheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tuney-zheng/) - [Xiaoyu Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaoyu-xu/) - [Zhangchen Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhangchen-xu/) ## 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 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 81 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [36 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuetai-li/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026