--- title: "Zhi Wang · Northeastern University — author profile and papers" description: "Zhi Wang, Northeastern University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhi-wang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhi-wang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zhi Wang # Zhi Wang Zhi Wang has 3 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 [Ganqu Cui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ganqu-cui/), [Feng Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/feng-xiong/), [Hao Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-peng/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5108743346) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2292-5900) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5108743346) · [22 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5108743346) · [194 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5108743346&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhi-wang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 162 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhi-wang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6814](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/69/#star-6814) 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=Zhi+Wang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhi+Wang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhi+Wang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhi+Wang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Northeastern University** Shenyang · China 2025–2026 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university-cn/) · [🎓**Northeastern University** Boston · United States 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university/) · [🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 2009–2018 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) · [🔬**State Key Laboratory of Industrial Control Technology** Hangzhou · China 2009–2014 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/03a33a786) · [🎓**Nanjing University** Nanjing · China 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanjing-university/) 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 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 3 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/) · [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/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Signal Processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) · [Transportation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/transportation/) 🧭 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/zhi-wang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhi-wang/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Entropy Mechanism of Reinforcement Learning for Reasoning Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cui-2025-entropy-mechanism-reinforcement-learning-reasoning/)** *(2025 · 101 citations)* Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards is now a main way to improve LLM reasoning, but scaling it hits a recurring problem. Without explicit regularization, policy entropy falls to almost zero within the first training steps. The model becomes overconfident, stops exploring and its validation accuracy stalls. 2. **[Learning to Reason under Off-Policy Guidance](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yan-2025-learning-reason-under-off-policy/)** *(2025 · 68 citations)* Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has driven recent progress in large reasoning models. 3. **[Reasoning Over Space: Enabling Geographic Reasoning for LLM-Based Generative Next POI Recommendation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lv-2026-reasoning-over-space-enabling-geographic/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The paper argues that LLM-based generative recommenders for next POI prediction make poor use of geography. ## Co-authors here 12 of 17 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ganqu Cui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ganqu-cui/) ×2 - [Feng Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/feng-xiong/) - [Hao Peng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-peng/) - [Haozhan Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haozhan-li/) - [Huayu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huayu-chen/) - [Jiacheng Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiacheng-chen/) - [Jianhao Yan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianhao-yan/) - [Lifan Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lifan-yuan/) - [Weize Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weize-chen/) - [Xiaoye Qu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaoye-qu/) - [Yafu Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yafu-li/) - [Yu Cheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-cheng/) ## 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 Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 162 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [55 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhi-wang/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026