--- title: "Zhengtao Yu — author profile and papers · Machine translation" description: "Zhengtao Yu, Kunming University of Science and Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 37 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengtao-yu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengtao-yu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zhengtao Yu # Zhengtao Yu Zhengtao Yu has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Low-resource languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/); often with [Hao Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-peng/), [Haoran Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haoran-li/), [Yuxin Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuxin-huang/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100619287) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4012-461X) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130830419) · [**h-index 37**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100619287) · [429 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100619287) · [5,728 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100619287&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengtao-yu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1 time in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengtao-yu/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13241](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/133/#star-13241) 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=Zhengtao+Yu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhengtao+Yu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhengtao+Yu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhengtao+Yu) ## Affiliations [🎓**Kunming University of Science and Technology** Kunming · China 2005–2026 · 506 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/kunming-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**Beijing Institute of Technology** Beijing · China 2004–2006 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Fuyang Normal University** Fuyang · China 2023–2024 · 4 papers](https://ror.org/02njz9p87) · [🎓**Yunnan Normal University** Kunming · China 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/00sc9n023) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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).[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/) · [Software · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Low-resource languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Machine translation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengtao-yu/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Activation-Guided Local Editing for Jailbreaking Attacks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-activation-guided-local-editing-jailbreaking/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The paper addresses the weaknesses of current jailbreak techniques used to red-team aligned LLMs. Token-level attacks tend to yield gibberish suffixes that filters catch easily and that rarely transfer to other models. Prompt-level attacks depend on manual crafting or costly iterative search. The authors present… 2. **[Layer-aware Dual-directional Modulation for Low-resource Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-layer-aware-dual-directional-modulation/)** *(2026)* LLM-based machine translation still performs much worse for low-resource languages than for high-resource ones, largely because pre-training data is unevenly distributed. ## All works 3 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. **[Activation-Guided Local Editing for Jailbreaking Attacks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-activation-guided-local-editing-jailbreaking/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Jiecong Wang, Haoran Li, Hao Peng, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 2. **[Layer-aware Dual-directional Modulation for Low-resource Machine Translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-layer-aware-dual-directional-modulation/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Siqi Zhang, Ran Song, Shuting Jiang, et al.*2026* 3. **[MTP-S2UT: Enhancing Speech-to-Speech Translation Quality with Multi-token Prediction ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10003) arXiv:2510.10003 · no summary yet**Jianjin Wang et al.*2025* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hao Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-peng/) - [Haoran Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haoran-li/) - [Yuxin Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuxin-huang/) - [Zihao Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihao-wang/) - [Ziqian Zeng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziqian-zeng/) ## 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/) - [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 1 time (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengtao-yu/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026