--- title: "Zidi Xiong · Harvard University — author profile and papers" description: "Zidi Xiong, Harvard University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zidi-xiong/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zidi-xiong/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zidi Xiong # Zidi Xiong Zidi Xiong has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Boxin Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boxin-wang/), [Chejian Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chejian-xu/), [Chenhui Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenhui-zhang/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101321587) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101321587) · [21 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101321587) · [114 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101321587&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zidi-xiong/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 205 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zidi-xiong/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5779](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/58/#star-5779) 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=Zidi+Xiong) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zidi+Xiong) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zidi+Xiong) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zidi+Xiong) ## Affiliations [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 2025–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Social Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Safety Research · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-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/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zidi-xiong/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zidi-xiong/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[DecodingTrust: A Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2023-decodingtrust-comprehensive-assessment-trustworthiness-gpt/)** *(2023 · 259 citations)* Practitioners increasingly propose GPT models for high-stakes domains such as healthcare and finance, yet little systematic evidence exists on how reliable these models are. 2. **[How Memory Management Impacts LLM Agents: An Empirical Study of Experience-Following Behavior](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xiong-2026-how-memory-management-impacts-llm/)** *(2026 · 13 citations)* LLM agents often keep an episodic memory of earlier task queries and their execution trajectories, then retrieve similar records as in-context demonstrations. 3. **[User-Assistant Bias in LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pan-2026-user-assistant-bias-llms/)** *(2026)* Chat LLMs split their context into role-tagged segments such as system, user, assistant and tool. This paper asks whether the tags themselves make a model weigh information unequally. The authors define user–assistant bias as follows: when the user and the assistant earlier gave contradictory attributes for the same… ## All works 5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[DecodingTrust: A Comprehensive Assessment of Trustworthiness in GPT Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2023-decodingtrust-comprehensive-assessment-trustworthiness-gpt/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Boxin Wang, Weixin Chen, Hengzhi Pei, et al.*2023 · 259 citations* 2. **[RigorLLM: Resilient Guardrails for Large Language Models against Undesired Content ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13031) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Zhuowen Yuan et al.*2024 · 19 citations* 3. **[How Memory Management Impacts LLM Agents: An Empirical Study of Experience-Following Behavior](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xiong-2026-how-memory-management-impacts-llm/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Zidi Xiong, Yuping Lin, Wenya Xie, et al.*2026 · 13 citations* 4. **[MMDT: Decoding the Trustworthiness and Safety of Multimodal Foundation Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14827) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Chejian Xu et al.*2025 · 5 citations* 5. **[User-Assistant Bias in LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pan-2026-user-assistant-bias-llms/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Xu Pan, Jingxuan Fan, Zidi Xiong, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Boxin Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/boxin-wang/) - [Chejian Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chejian-xu/) - [Chenhui Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenhui-zhang/) - [Chulin Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chulin-xie/) - [Himabindu Lakkaraju](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/himabindu-lakkaraju/) - [Jiliang Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiliang-tang/) - [Pengfei He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pengfei-he/) - [Rylan Schaeffer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rylan-schaeffer/) - [Simran Arora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/simran-arora/) - [Weixin Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weixin-chen/) - [Wenya Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenya-xie/) - [Yuping Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuping-lin/) ## 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/) - [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/) - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 205 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [55 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zidi-xiong/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026