--- title: "Zhaoyi Li · Xiamen University — author profile and papers" description: "Zhaoyi Li, Xiamen University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhaoyi-li/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhaoyi-li/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zhaoyi Li # Zhaoyi Li Zhaoyi Li 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/); often with [Defu Lian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/defu-lian/), [Fuzheng Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fuzheng-zhang/), [Jiacheng Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiacheng-liu/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5104053874) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0005-3757-597X) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5104053874) · [10 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5104053874) · [18 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5104053874&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhaoyi-li/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 11 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhaoyi-li/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11095](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/111/#star-11095) 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=Zhaoyi+Li) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhaoyi+Li) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhaoyi+Li) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhaoyi+Li) ## Affiliations [🎓**Xiamen University** Xiamen · China 2024–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/xiamen-university/) · [🎓**Hubei Engineering University** Xiaogan · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/05amnwk22) · [🎓**Southern University of Science and Technology** Shenzhen · China 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/southern-university-of-science-and-technology/) 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. ## 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 · 1 work](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/zhaoyi-li/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhaoyi-li/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[What Makes a Good Reasoning Chain? Uncovering Structural Patterns in Long Chain-of-Thought Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jiang-2025-what-makes-good-reasoning-chain/)** *(2025 · 11 citations)* Long chain-of-thought (LCoT) reasoning lets LLMs solve hard problems, but it is unclear which properties of a reasoning trace indicate that the final answer will be right. 2. **[LLMSurgeon: Diagnosing Data Mixture of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/luo-2026-llmsurgeon-diagnosing-data-mixture-large/)** *(2026)* LLM developers rarely disclose the composition of their pretraining data. This makes it hard to audit models for bias, copyright exposure or uneven performance across domains. Membership inference attacks work one document at a time and scale poorly to corpus-level questions. The authors define Data Mixture Surgery… ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Defu Lian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/defu-lian/) - [Fuzheng Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fuzheng-zhang/) - [Jiacheng Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiacheng-liu/) - [Linqi Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linqi-song/) - [Wei Bi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-bi/) - [Ying Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ying-wei/) - [Zhiqiang Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiqiang-shen/) ## 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/) - [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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 11 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhaoyi-li/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026