--- title: "Zhen Fang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Zhen Fang, University of Science and Technology of China: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-fang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-fang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zhen Fang # Zhen Fang Zhen Fang has 3 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/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Feng Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/feng-zhao/), [Zehui Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zehui-chen/), [Lin Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lin-chen/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5133153685) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5133153685) · [5 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5133153685) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5133153685&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-fang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 23 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-fang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9943](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/100/#star-9943) 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=Zhen+Fang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhen+Fang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhen+Fang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhen+Fang) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Science and Technology of China** Hefei · China 2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-science-and-technology-of-china/) · [🎓**Chongqing University** Chongqing · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/chongqing-university/) 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 · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 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 · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-fang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-fang/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[CRITICTOOL: Evaluating Self-Critique Capabilities of Large Language Models in Tool-Calling Error Scenarios](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2025-critictool-evaluating-self-critique-capabilities/)** *(2025 · 12 citations)* LLM agents that call external tools often run into problems during long, multi-step tasks. Existing tool-use benchmarks mostly compare final outputs with gold answers, so they do not show whether a model can notice a mistake, diagnose it and recover. The authors first examined failures on several established tool… 2. **[UniCorn: Towards Self-Improving Unified Multimodal Models through Self-Generated Supervision](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/fang-2026-unicorn-self-improving-unified-multimodal/)** *(2026 · 11 citations)* Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) often judge images accurately but cannot produce scenes of the same quality themselves. 3. **[Beyond Accuracy: Unveiling Inefficiency Patterns in Tool-Integrated Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/su-2026-beyond-accuracy-unveiling-inefficiency-patterns/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Agents that alternate between LLM reasoning and external tool calls are usually judged on accuracy. When efficiency is reported, it is often reduced to counting tokens or tool invocations. The authors argue that these counts misrepresent real inference latency in Tool-Integrated Reasoning (TIR). Pauses for tool… ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Feng Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/feng-zhao/) ×3 - [Zehui Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zehui-chen/) ×3 - [Lin Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lin-chen/) ×2 - [Shiting Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shiting-huang/) ×2 - [Yu Zeng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-zeng/) ×2 - [Junjie Ye](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junjie-ye/) - [Qi Mao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qi-mao/) - [Siyu Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siyu-yuan/) - [Wenxuan Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenxuan-huang/) - [Yi Cao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-cao/) - [Ziheng Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziheng-wang/) ## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) ×2 - [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 23 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [15 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-fang/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026