--- title: "Zhichao Yang · Xidian University — author profile and papers" description: "Zhichao Yang, Xidian University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhichao-yang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhichao-yang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zhichao Yang # Zhichao Yang Zhichao Yang 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/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Feiyun Ouyang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/feiyun-ouyang/), [Hong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hong-yu/), [Junda Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junda-wang/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101448608) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3398-1286) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101448608) · [17 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101448608) · [142 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101448608&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhichao-yang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 27 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhichao-yang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8271](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/83/#star-8271) 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=Zhichao+Yang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhichao+Yang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhichao+Yang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhichao+Yang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Xidian University** Xi'an · China 2023–2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/xidian-university/) · [🎓**Beihang University** Beijing · China 2025–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beihang-university/) · [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 2023–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 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/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 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 · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Medicine · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/) · [Health Informatics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/medicine/health-informatics/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Efficient models & compression · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhichao-yang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhichao-yang/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[RARE: Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning Enhancement for Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tran-2025-rare-retrieval-augmented-reasoning-enhancement/)** *(2025 · 20 citations)* Answering knowledge-heavy questions, especially in medicine, requires both several reasoning steps and facts that a pretrained model may lack or hold only in outdated form. 2. **[Fast and Effective On-Policy Distillation from Reasoning Prefixes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-fast-effective-policy-distillation-reasoning/)** *(2026 · 12 citations)* On-policy distillation (OPD) trains a student LLM on its own sampled outputs, using token-level feedback from a teacher. 3. **[MedQA-CS: Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE)-Style Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Clinical Skills](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yao-2026-medqa-cs-objective-structured-clinical/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* Most medical LLM benchmarks, such as MedQA, rely on multiple-choice questions. These test what a model knows but not whether it can carry out a patient encounter. MedQA-CS fills this gap with an AI-SCE benchmark modeled on the OSCE format of the USMLE Step 2 CS exam, targeting the "shows how" tier of Miller's Pyramid. ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Feiyun Ouyang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/feiyun-ouyang/) ×2 - [Hong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hong-yu/) ×2 - [Junda Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junda-wang/) ×2 - [Zonghai Yao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zonghai-yao/) ×2 - [Dongxu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongxu-zhang/) - [Hieu Tran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hieu-tran/) - [Huixue Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huixue-zhou/) - [Shuo Han](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuo-han/) - [Yifan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-zhang/) - [Zihao Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zihao-zhang/) ## 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 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/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 27 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhichao-yang/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026