--- title: "Zhonghang Li — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Zhonghang Li, University of Hong Kong: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhonghang-li/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhonghang-li/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zhonghang Li # Zhonghang Li Zhonghang Li has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Chao Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chao-huang/), [Jiabin Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiabin-tang/), [Lianghao Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lianghao-xia/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5023084303) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3977-1334) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130872383) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5023084303) · [13 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023084303) · [400 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023084303&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhonghang-li/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 52 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhonghang-li/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/101/#star-10020) 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=Zhonghang+Li) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhonghang+Li) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhonghang+Li) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhonghang+Li) ## Affiliations [🎓**South China University of Technology** Guangzhou · China 2022–2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/south-china-university-of-technology/) · [🎓**University of Hong Kong** Pok Fu Lam · China 2024–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-hong-kong/) 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [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/zhonghang-li/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhonghang-li/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[AI-Researcher: Autonomous Scientific Innovation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tang-2025-ai-researcher-autonomous-scientific/)** *(2025 · 40 citations)* Large language models now handle coding and mathematical reasoning well, but turning these skills into a system that does original research on its own is still unsolved. 2. **[LightReasoner: Can Small Language Models Teach Large Language Models Reasoning?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-lightreasoner-can-small-language-models/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Standard supervised fine-tuning for reasoning is expensive. It typically uses rejection sampling against ground-truth answers and then updates every token equally, even though most tokens are routine. LightReasoner addresses this by letting a weaker "Amateur" model help train a stronger "Expert" model. At each step… ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[UrbanGPT: Spatio-Temporal Large Language Models ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3637528.3671578) ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) · no summary yet**Zhonghang Li et al.*2024 · 189 citations* 2. **[AI-Researcher: Autonomous Scientific Innovation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tang-2025-ai-researcher-autonomous-scientific/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Jiabin Tang, Lianghao Xia, Zhonghang Li, et al.*2025 · 40 citations* 3. **[LightReasoner: Can Small Language Models Teach Large Language Models Reasoning?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-lightreasoner-can-small-language-models/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Jingyuan Wang, Yankai Chen, Zhonghang Li, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chao Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chao-huang/) ×2 - [Jiabin Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiabin-tang/) - [Lianghao Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lianghao-xia/) - [Yankai Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yankai-chen/) ## 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/) - ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 52 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [17 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhonghang-li/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026