--- title: "Zesen Cheng · Alibaba Group — author profile and papers" description: "Zesen Cheng, Alibaba Group: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zesen-cheng/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zesen-cheng/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zesen Cheng # Zesen Cheng Zesen Cheng has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/); often with [Chang Gao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chang-gao/), [Deli Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deli-zhao/), [Guanzheng Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guanzheng-chen/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5026357570) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1885-4261) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5026357570) · [33 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5026357570) · [457 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5026357570&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zesen-cheng/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 454 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zesen-cheng/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4303](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/44/#star-4303) 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=Zesen+Cheng) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zesen+Cheng) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zesen+Cheng) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zesen+Cheng) ## Affiliations [🏢**Alibaba Group** San Mateo · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group-united-states/) · [🎓**Peking University** Beijing · China 2023–2025 · 24 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/peking-university/) · [🏢**Alibaba Group** Hangzhou · China 2024–2025 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group/) · [🏢**Alibaba Group** George Town · Cayman Islands 2024–2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-group-cayman-islands/) · [🏢**Alibaba DAMO Academy** Hangzhou · China 2024–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/alibaba-damo-academy/) · [🔬**State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China** Guangzhou 2020–2025 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/04dn2ax39) · [🏥**Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center** Guangzhou · China 2020–2025 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/0400g8r85) · [🎓**South China University of Technology** Guangzhou · China 2020–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/south-china-university-of-technology/) 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).[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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [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.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zesen-cheng/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zesen-cheng/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Qwen3-VL Technical Report](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bai-2025-qwen3-vl-technical-report/)** *(2025 · 370 citations)* Qwen3-VL is the Qwen Team's newest open family of vision–language models. Its goal is to handle text, images and video in one model, with long contexts and strong reasoning, while keeping the language skills of the underlying LLM. The family is built on Qwen3 and comes in four dense sizes and two mixture-of-experts… 2. **[VideoLLaMA 2: Advancing Spatial-Temporal Modeling and Audio Understanding in Video-LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cheng-2024-videollama-2-advancing-spatial-temporal/)** *(2024 · 118 citations)* Video-LLMs lag behind image-focused multimodal models because they fuse information across frames poorly and usually ignore the soundtrack. VideoLLaMA 2, from DAMO Academy (Alibaba Group), tackles both weaknesses while keeping the modular two-branch layout of the original VideoLLaMA. ## Co-authors here 12 of 16 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chang Gao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chang-gao/) - [Deli Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deli-zhao/) - [Guanzheng Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guanzheng-chen/) - [Hang Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hang-zhang/) - [Keqin Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/keqin-chen/) - [Lianghao Deng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lianghao-deng/) - [Lidong Bing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lidong-bing/) - [Ruizhe Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruizhe-chen/) - [Shuai Bai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuai-bai/) - [Sicong Leng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sicong-leng/) - [Wenbin Ge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenbin-ge/) - [Wenqi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenqi-zhang/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 454 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [136 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zesen-cheng/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026