--- title: "Zhixue Zhao · University of Sheffield — author profile and papers" description: "Zhixue Zhao, University of Sheffield: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhixue-zhao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhixue-zhao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zhixue Zhao # Zhixue Zhao Zhixue Zhao has 3 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Nikolaos Aletras](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolaos-aletras/), [Chanjin Zheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chanjin-zheng/), [Helen Yannakoudakis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/helen-yannakoudakis/). 3 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101991159) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3060-269X) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101991159) · [44 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101991159) · [158 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101991159&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhixue-zhao/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 16 times in our library · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8347](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/84/#star-8347) 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=Zhixue+Zhao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhixue+Zhao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhixue+Zhao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhixue+Zhao) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Sheffield** Sheffield · United Kingdom 2019–2026 · 33 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/) · [🎓**Philipps University of Marburg** Marburg · Germany 2024–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/philipps-university-of-marburg/) · [🎓**University of Mannheim** Mannheim · Germany 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-mannheim/) 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 6 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 · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Visual Arts and Performing Arts · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/visual-arts-and-performing-arts/) 🧭 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/) · [Summarization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhixue-zhao/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhixue-zhao/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhixue-zhao/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Investigating Hallucinations in Pruned Large Language Models for Abstractive Summarization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chrysostomou-2024-investigating-hallucinations-pruned-large-language/)** *(2024 · 27 citations)* Large language models summarize well, but they are expensive to run and prone to inventing content that the source does not support. 2. **[Analysing Chain of Thought Dynamics: Active Guidance or Unfaithful Post-hoc Rationalisation?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lim-2025-analysing-chain-thought-dynamics-active/)** *(2025 · 5 citations)* Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting often gives little benefit on soft-reasoning tasks, and the written reasoning may not reflect what actually drives a model's answer. 3. **[KidsArtBench: Multi-Dimensional Children's Art Evaluation with Attribute-Aware MLLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ye-2026-kidsartbench-multi-dimensional-children-s/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Multimodal LLMs remain weak at judging artistic expression. Aesthetic qualities are abstract, and annotated artwork data is rare. Existing aesthetics datasets usually give a single overall score and focus on adult photos or art. The authors address this gap with KidsArtBench, a set of 1,046 drawings by children aged… ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Nikolaos Aletras](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolaos-aletras/) ×2 - [Chanjin Zheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chanjin-zheng/) - [Helen Yannakoudakis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/helen-yannakoudakis/) - [Miles Williams](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miles-williams/) - [Xingwei Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingwei-tan/) - [Zheng Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zheng-yuan/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [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/) - [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/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 16 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). Updated 1 November 2026