--- title: "Zhihan Liu · Cornell University — author profile and papers" description: "Zhihan Liu, Cornell University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhihan-liu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhihan-liu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zhihan Liu # Zhihan Liu Zhihan Liu has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2026; often with [Bo Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-liu/), [Jian Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-xie/), [Kai Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-zhang/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5022776861) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4065-1567) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5022776861) · [63 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5022776861) · [575 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5022776861&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhihan-liu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 34 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhihan-liu/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10156](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/102/#star-10156) 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=Zhihan+Liu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhihan+Liu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhihan+Liu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhihan+Liu) ## Affiliations [🎓**Cornell University** Ithaca · United States 2024–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cornell-university/) · [🎓**Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications** Beijing · China 2009–2018 · 15 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-university-of-posts-and-telecommunications/) · [🔬**State Key Laboratory of Networking and Switching Technology** Beijing · China 2009–2018 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/state-key-laboratory-of-networking-and-switching-technology/) · [🎓**Northwestern University** Evanston · United States 2023–2025 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northwestern-university/) · [🎓**Harbin Engineering University** Harbin · China 2022–2024 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harbin-engineering-university/) · [🎓**Nanchang Hangkong University** Nanchang · China 2022–2023 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/0369pvp92) · [🎓**Dalian University of Technology** Dalian · China 2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dalian-university-of-technology/) · [🎓**Wuhan University of Science and Technology** Wuhan · China 2023–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/wuhan-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**University of Michigan** Ann Arbor · United States 2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-michigan/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 9 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Management Science and Operations Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/management-science-and-operations-research/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhihan-liu/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhihan-liu/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhihan-liu/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Agent Learning via Early Experience](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-agent-learning-early-experience/)** *(2025 · 24 citations)* Reinforcement learning is hard to apply to language agents when environments give no verifiable reward, as on websites, or demand long, costly multi-turn rollouts. 2. **[Reason for Future, Act for Now: A Principled Framework for Autonomous LLM Agents with Provable Sample Efficiency](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2023-reason-future-act-now-principled/)** *(2023 · 13 citations)* LLM agents can reason well, but they still struggle to turn that reasoning into good actions with few environment interactions. 3. **[Detecting RAG Extraction Attack via Dual-Path Runtime Integrity Game](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2026-detecting-rag-extraction-attack-dual/)** *(2026)* RAG systems can leak proprietary knowledge-base content when attackers use adaptive, iterative prompts to make the model reproduce retrieved chunks. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bo Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-liu/) - [Jian Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-xie/) - [Kai Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-zhang/) - [Tianci Xue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianci-xue/) - [Tingwen Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tingwen-liu/) - [Yuting Ning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuting-ning/) - [Yuxuan Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuxuan-sun/) - [Zeyi Liao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeyi-liao/) ## 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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 34 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [18 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhihan-liu/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026