--- title: "Zhiyuan Zhang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Zhiyuan Zhang, University of Science and Technology of China: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2023), h-index 18 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyuan-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyuan-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zhiyuan Zhang # Zhiyuan Zhang Zhiyuan Zhang has 3 papers in our library, in 2021–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Baobao Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/baobao-chang/), [Chuanqi Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuanqi-tan/), [Fei Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-huang/). 3 papers in our library · 2021–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5015455705) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6752-0794) · [**h-index 18**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5015455705) · [149 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5015455705) · [1,184 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5015455705&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyuan-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 315 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyuan-zhang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3071](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/31/#star-3071) 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=Zhiyuan+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhiyuan+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhiyuan+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhiyuan+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Beijing Jiaotong University** Beijing · China 2006–2025 · 39 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-jiaotong-university/) · [🏛️**Beijing Municipal Education Commission** Beijing · China 2016–2025 · 15 papers*current*](https://ror.org/04bpn6s66) · [🎓**Civil Aviation University of China** Tianjin · China 2016–2025 · 5 papers*current*](https://ror.org/03je71k37) · [🎓**Dalian University of Technology** Dalian · China 2023–2025 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dalian-university-of-technology/) · [🎓**Hubei University Of Economics** Wuhan · China 2025 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/012a84b59) · [🎓**Singapore Management University** Singapore · Singapore 2023–2025 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/singapore-management-university/) · [🎓**Hong Kong Shue Yan University** Hong Kong · China 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/023t8mt09) · [🎓**Liaoning Technical University** Fuxin · China 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/01n2bd587) · [🎓**North University of China** Taiyuan · China 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/047bp1713) · [🎓**Shandong Jiaotong University** Jinan · China 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/01848hk04) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 30 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 4 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/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper Zhiyuan Zhang's papers of 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khattab-2023-dspy-compiling-declarative-language-model/) · [**2021** 2 papers Zhiyuan Zhang's papers of 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyuan-zhang/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[DSPy: Compiling Declarative Language Model Calls into Self-Improving Pipelines](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khattab-2023-dspy-compiling-declarative-language-model/)** *(2023 · 261 citations)* Pipelines that chain language model calls usually depend on long prompt templates tuned by hand. These prompts are fragile and often fail to transfer across models, domains or inputs. The authors present DSPy, a Python programming model that borrows ideas from neural network frameworks such as PyTorch. Developers… 2. **[Raise a Child in Large Language Model: Towards Effective and Generalizable Fine-tuning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2021-raise-child-large-language-model/)** *(2021 · 200 citations)* When very large pretrained language models are fine-tuned on small labeled datasets, they tend to overfit and transfer poorly to new domains or related tasks. 3. **[Be Careful about Poisoned Word Embeddings: Exploring the Vulnerability of the Embedding Layers in NLP Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2021-be-careful-about-poisoned-word/)** *(2021 · 134 citations)* Backdoor attacks make an NLP classifier behave normally on ordinary inputs but output an attacker-chosen class whenever a rare trigger word appears. ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Baobao Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/baobao-chang/) - [Chuanqi Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuanqi-tan/) - [Fei Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-huang/) - [Fuli Luo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fuli-luo/) - [Keshav Santhanam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/keshav-santhanam/) - [Lei Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lei-li/) - [Matei Zaharia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matei-zaharia/) - [Omar Khattab](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-khattab/) - [Runxin Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/runxin-xu/) - [Songfang Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/songfang-huang/) - [Wenkai Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenkai-yang/) - [Xu Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xu-sun/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2021/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2021/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 315 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [17 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyuan-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026