--- title: "Yutao Sun — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yutao Sun: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yutao-sun/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yutao-sun/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yutao Sun # Yutao Sun Yutao Sun has 2 papers in our library, in 2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Furu Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/furu-wei/), [Li Dong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/li-dong/), [Shuming Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuming-ma/). 2 papers in our library · 2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100538103) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100538103) · [28 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100538103) · [251 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100538103&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yutao-sun/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 173 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yutao-sun/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3865](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/39/#star-3865) 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=Yutao+Sun) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yutao+Sun) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yutao+Sun) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yutao+Sun) ## Affiliations [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2022–2024 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications** Beijing · China 2024–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications/) · [🔬**Changzhou Vocational Institute of Engineering** Changzhou · China 2022–2025 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03pza9p08) · [🎓**Fudan University** Shanghai · China 2022–2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/fudan-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 2 papers Yutao Sun's papers of 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yutao-sun/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Why Can GPT Learn In-Context? Language Models Secretly Perform Gradient Descent as Meta-Optimizers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dai-2023-why-can-gpt-learn-context/)** *(2023 · 253 citations)* This paper asks why large GPT-style models can solve new tasks from a few demonstrations without any weight updates. 2. **[A Length-Extrapolatable Transformer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2023-length-extrapolatable-transformer/)** *(2023 · 117 citations)* Transformers trained on sequences of a fixed maximum length usually degrade sharply when evaluated on longer inputs, and retraining large pre-trained models for longer contexts is costly. ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Furu Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/furu-wei/) ×2 - [Li Dong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/li-dong/) ×2 - [Shuming Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuming-ma/) ×2 - [Alon Benhaim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alon-benhaim/) - [Barun Patra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/barun-patra/) - [Damai Dai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/damai-dai/) - [Shaohan Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaohan-huang/) - [Vishrav Chaudhary](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vishrav-chaudhary/) - [Xia Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xia-song/) - [Yaru Hao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yaru-hao/) - [Zhifang Sui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhifang-sui/) ## 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 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2023/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 173 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [29 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yutao-sun/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026