--- title: "Zhang-Wei Hong — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Zhang-Wei Hong, IBM: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhang-wei-hong/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhang-wei-hong/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zhang-Wei Hong # Zhang-Wei Hong Zhang-Wei Hong has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, 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 [Chuang Gan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuang-gan/), [Guangtao Zeng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guangtao-zeng/), [David Cox](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-cox/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5017776857) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8574-6108) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5017776857) · [47 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5017776857) · [772 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5017776857&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhang-wei-hong/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 24 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhang-wei-hong/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11726](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/118/#star-11726) 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=Zhang-Wei+Hong) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhang-Wei+Hong) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhang-Wei+Hong) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhang-Wei+Hong) ## Affiliations [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2021–2026 · 26 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🏢**IBM** Armonk · United States 2025–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) · [🎓**University of California, Los Angeles** Los Angeles · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-los-angeles/) · [🎓**National Tsing Hua University** Hsinchu · Taiwan 2017–2021 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-tsing-hua-university/) · [🔬**MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Cambridge · United States 2022–2024 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) · [🏢**Preferred Networks** Tokyo · Japan 2020–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/preferred-networks/) · [🎓**The University of Sydney** Sydney · Australia 2024Education since 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-sydney/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution 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/) · [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 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 [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhang-wei-hong/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhang-wei-hong/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Satori: Reinforcement Learning with Chain-of-Action-Thought Enhances LLM Reasoning via Autoregressive Search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2025-satori-reinforcement-learning-chain-action/)** *(2025 · 13 citations)* Most ways of boosting LLM reasoning at inference time rely on heavy sampling steered by a separate verifier or reward model. 2. **[Tailored Primitive Initialization is the Secret Key to Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yao-2026-tailored-primitive-initialization-is-secret/)** *(2026)* RL fine-tuning of LLMs for reasoning is sample-inefficient, and its gains depend heavily on the base model. ## 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. **[Tactics of Adversarial Attack on Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents ↗](https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2017/525) International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Yen-Chen Lin et al.*2017 · 300 citations* 2. **[A multimodal robotic platform for multi-element electrocatalyst discovery ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09640-5) Nature · no summary yet**Zhen Zhang et al.*2025 · 73 citations* 3. [**Satori: Reinforcement Learning with Chain-of-Action-Thought Enhances LLM Reasoning via Autoregressive Search arXiv:2502.02508**Maohao Shen, Guangtao Zeng, Zhenting Qi, et al.*2025 · 13 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2025-satori-reinforcement-learning-chain-action/) 4. **[Tailored Primitive Initialization is the Secret Key to Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yao-2026-tailored-primitive-initialization-is-secret/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yihang Yao, Guangtao Zeng, Raina Wu, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chuang Gan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuang-gan/) ×2 - [Guangtao Zeng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guangtao-zeng/) ×2 - [David Cox](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-cox/) - [Gregory W. Wornell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregory-w-wornell/) - [Wei Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-lu/) - [Yang Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-zhang/) - [Zhenfang Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhenfang-chen/) - [Zhenting Qi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhenting-qi/) ## 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 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence - Nature ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 24 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [10 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhang-wei-hong/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026