--- title: "Zeping Yu · University of Manchester — author profile and papers" description: "Zeping Yu, University of Manchester: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeping-yu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeping-yu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zeping Yu # Zeping Yu Zeping Yu has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, 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/), [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/); often with [Chenming Shang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenming-shang/), [Ercong Nie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ercong-nie/), [Hengyuan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hengyuan-zhang/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100690060) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0273-7391) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100690060) · [11 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100690060) · [90 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100690060&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeping-yu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 22 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeping-yu/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8775](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/88/#star-8775) 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=Zeping+Yu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zeping+Yu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zeping+Yu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zeping+Yu) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Manchester** Manchester · United Kingdom 2024–2026 · 9 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-manchester/) 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 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeping-yu/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeping-yu/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Back Attention: Understanding and Enhancing Multi-Hop Reasoning in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yu-2025-back-attention-understanding-enhancing-multi/)** *(2025 · 16 citations)* The paper examines why large language models often fail at latent multi-hop factual reasoning, where a query such as "e1's r1's r2 is" has to be answered without explicit intermediate steps. 2. **[Locate, Steer, and Improve: A Practical Survey of Actionable Mechanistic Interpretability in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-locate-steer-improve-practical-survey/)** *(2026 · 9 citations)* Most earlier reviews of mechanistic interpretability (MI) in LLMs describe what researchers have discovered inside models. ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chenming Shang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenming-shang/) - [Ercong Nie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ercong-nie/) - [Hengyuan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hengyuan-zhang/) - [Mingyang Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingyang-wang/) - [Qianli Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qianli-wang/) - [Shuzhou Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuzhou-yuan/) - [Sophia Ananiadou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sophia-ananiadou/) - [Xufeng Duan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xufeng-duan/) - [Yiwei Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yiwei-wang/) - [Yonatan Belinkov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yonatan-belinkov/) - [Zhihao Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhihao-zhang/) - [Zunhai Su](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zunhai-su/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) - [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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 22 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [9 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeping-yu/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026