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# Who cites Zijun Yao

138 citations of their works from 131 papers of our library (of the 149,439 whose bibliographies we read) · 52 with a page here, the most cited first · [← Zijun Yao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zijun-yao/)

1. **[s1: Simple test-time scaling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/muennighoff-2025-s1-simple-test-time-scaling/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Niklas Muennighoff, Zitong Yang, Weijia Shi, et al.*2025 · 608 citations*
2. [**Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with Reinforcement Learning arXiv:2503.09516**Bowen Jin, Hansi Zeng, Zhenrui Yue, et al.*2025 · 322 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jin-2025-search-r1-training-llms-reason/)
3. [**LLMs-as-Judges: A Comprehensive Survey on LLM-based Evaluation Methods arXiv:2412.05579**Haitao Li, Qian Dong, Junjie Chen, et al.*2024 · 195 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2024-llms-judges-comprehensive-survey-llm/)
4. **[Towards Reasoning Era: A Survey of Long Chain-of-Thought for Reasoning Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2025-towards-reasoning-era-survey-long/) [Science China Information Sciences](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/science-china-information-sciences/)**Qiguang Chen, Libo Qin, Jinhao Liu, et al.*2025 · 176 citations*
5. [**Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Graphs (GraphRAG) arXiv:2501.00309**Haoyu Han, Yu Wang, Harry Shomer, et al.*2025 · 87 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/han-2025-retrieval-augmented-generation-graphs-graphrag/)
6. [**A Survey on Test-Time Scaling in Large Language Models: What, How, Where, and How Well? arXiv:2503.24235**Qiyuan Zhang, Fuyuan Lyu, Zexu Sun, et al.*2025 · 79 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2025-survey-test-time-scaling-large/)
7. [**Inference-Time Scaling for Generalist Reward Modeling arXiv:2504.02495**Zijun Liu, Peiyi Wang, Runxin Xu, et al.*2025 · 65 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2025-inference-time-scaling-generalist/)
8. **[PRMBench: A Fine-grained and Challenging Benchmark for Process-Level Reward Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/song-2025-prmbench-fine-grained-challenging-benchmark/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Mingyang Song, Zhaochen Su, Xiaoye Qu, et al.*2025 · 63 citations*
9. **[Small Models Struggle to Learn from Strong Reasoners](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2025-small-models-struggle-learn-strong/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Yuetai Li, Xiang Yue, Zhangchen Xu, et al.*2025 · 61 citations*
10. [**RM-R1: Reward Modeling as Reasoning arXiv:2505.02387**Xiusi Chen, Gaotang Li, Ziqi Wang, et al.*2025 · 49 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2025-rm-r1-reward-modeling-reasoning/)
11. [**Skywork-Reward-V2: Scaling Preference Data Curation via Human-AI Synergy arXiv:2507.01352**Chris Yuhao Liu, Liang Zeng, Yuzhen Xiao, et al.*2025 · 48 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2025-skywork-reward-v2-scaling/)
12. **[Knowledge Boundary of Large Language Models: A Survey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2025-knowledge-boundary-large-language-models/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Moxin Li, Yong Zhao, Wenxuan Zhang, et al.*2025 · 30 citations*
13. [**Nemotron 3 Nano: Open, Efficient Mixture-of-Experts Hybrid Mamba-Transformer Model for Agentic Reasoning arXiv:2512.20848**NVIDIA: Aaron Blakeman, Aaron Grattafiori, Aarti Basant, et al.*2025 · 27 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/blakeman-2025-nemotron-3-nano-open-efficient/)
14. [**Distillation Scaling Laws arXiv:2502.08606**Dan Busbridge, Amitis Shidani, Floris Weers, et al.*2025 · 26 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/busbridge-2025-distillation-scaling-laws/)
15. **[TreeRL: LLM Reinforcement Learning with On-Policy Tree Search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2025-treerl-llm-reinforcement-learning-policy/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Zhenyu Hou, Ziniu Hu, Yujiang Li, et al.*2025 · 26 citations*
16. **[OpenRubrics: Towards Scalable Synthetic Rubric Generation for Reward Modeling and LLM Alignment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-openrubrics-scalable-synthetic-rubric-generation/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Tianci Liu, Ran Xu, Tony Yu, et al.*2026 · 25 citations*
17. **[Online Difficulty Filtering for Reasoning Oriented Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bae-2026-online-difficulty-filtering-reasoning-oriented/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Sanghwan Bae, Jiwoo Hong, Min Young Lee, et al.*2026 · 22 citations*
18. **[Adaptive Retrieval Without Self-Knowledge? Bringing Uncertainty Back Home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/moskvoretskii-2025-adaptive-retrieval-without-self-knowledge/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Viktor Moskvoretskii, Maria Marina, Mikhail Salnikov, et al.*2025 · 21 citations*
19. **[VerIF: Verification Engineering for Reinforcement Learning in Instruction Following](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/peng-2025-verif-verification-engineering-reinforcement-learning/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Hao Peng, Yunjia Qi, Xiaozhi Wang, et al.*2025 · 18 citations*
20. **[JuStRank: Benchmarking LLM Judges for System Ranking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gera-2025-justrank-benchmarking-llm-judges-system/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Ariel Gera, Odellia Boni, Yotam Perlitz, et al.*2025 · 15 citations*
21. **[CodeJudgeBench: Benchmarking LLM-as-a-Judge for Coding Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jiang-2026-codejudgebench-benchmarking-llm-as-judge/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Hongchao Jiang, Yiming Chen, Yushi Cao, et al.*2026 · 13 citations*
22. **[ViLBench: A Suite for Vision-Language Process Reward Modeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tu-2025-vilbench-suite-vision-language-process/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Haoqin Tu, Weitao Feng, Hardy Chen, et al.*2025 · 9 citations*
23. **[Reason Only When Needed: Efficient Generative Reward Modeling via Model-Internal Uncertainty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xue-2026-reason-only-when-needed-efficient/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Chao Xue, Yao Wang, Mengqiao Liu, et al.*2026 · 8 citations*
24. **[Sparse Logit Sampling: Accelerating Knowledge Distillation in LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/anshumann-2025-sparse-logit-sampling-accelerating-knowledge/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Anshumann, Mohd Abbas Zaidi, Akhil Kedia, et al.*2025 · 6 citations*
25. **[Beyond Literal Mapping: Benchmarking and Improving Non-Literal Translation Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tian-2026-beyond-literal-mapping-benchmarking-improving/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yanzhi Tian, Cunxiang Wang, Zeming Liu, et al.*2026 · 5 citations*
26. **[Test-time Corpus Feedback: From Retrieval to RAG](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rathee-2026-test-time-corpus-feedback-retrieval/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Mandeep Rathee, Venktesh V, Sean MacAvaney, et al.*2026 · 4 citations*
27. **[UniversalRAG: Retrieval-Augmented Generation over Corpora of Diverse Modalities and Granularities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yeo-2026-universalrag-retrieval-augmented-generation-over/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Woongyeong Yeo, Kangsan Kim, Soyeong Jeong, et al.*2026 · 4 citations*
28. **[J4R: Learning to Judge with Equivalent Initial State Group Relative Policy Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-j4r-learning-judge-equivalent-initial/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Austin Xu, Yilun Zhou, Xuan-Phi Nguyen, et al.*2026 · 3 citations*
29. **[Outcome Accuracy is Not Enough: Aligning the Reasoning Process of Reward Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-outcome-accuracy-is-not-enough/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Binghai Wang, Yantao Liu, Yuxuan Liu, et al.*2026 · 3 citations*
30. **[RubricBench: Aligning Model-Generated Rubrics with Human Standards](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2026-rubricbench-aligning-model-generated-rubrics/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Junyi Zhou, Qiyuan Zhang, Yufei Wang, et al.*2026 · 3 citations*
31. **[OpenGenAlign: A Preference Dataset and Benchmark for Trustworthy Reward Modeling in Open-Ended, Long-Context Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-opengenalign-preference-dataset-benchmark-trustworthy/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Hanning Zhang, Juntong Song, Juno Zhu, et al.*2026 · 2 citations*
32. **[QuCo-RAG: Quantifying Uncertainty from the Pre-training Corpus for Dynamic Retrieval-Augmented Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/min-2026-quco-rag-quantifying-uncertainty-pre/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Dehai Min, Kailin Zhang, Tongtong Wu, et al.*2026 · 2 citations*
33. **[IF-RewardBench: Benchmarking Judge Models for Instruction-Following Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wen-2026-if-rewardbench-benchmarking-judge-models/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Bosi Wen, Yilin Niu, Cunxiang Wang, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
34. **[ACR: Adaptive Context Refactoring via Context Refactoring Operators for Multi-Turn Dialogue](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2026-acr-adaptive-context-refactoring-context/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Jiawei Shen, Jia Zhu, Hanghui Guo, et al.*2026*
35. **[AdaJudge: Adaptive Multi-Perspective Judging for Reward Modeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/miao-2026-adajudge-adaptive-multi-perspective-judging/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yongliang Miao, Yangyang Liang, Mengnan Du*2026*
36. **[AgentV-RL: Scaling Reward Modeling with Agentic Verifier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-agentv-rl-scaling-reward-modeling/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Jiazheng Zhang, Ziche Fu, Zhiheng Xi, et al.*2026*
37. **[AJ-Bench: Benchmarking Agent-as-a-Judge for Environment-Aware Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2026-aj-bench-benchmarking-agent-as/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Wentao Shi, Yu Wang, Yuyang Zhao, et al.*2026*
38. **[Aligning Agents via Planning: A Benchmark for Trajectory-Level Reward Modeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-aligning-agents-planning-benchmark-trajectory/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Jiaxuan Wang, Yulan Hu, Wenjin Yang, et al.*2026*
39. **[Beyond Length Scaling: Synergizing Breadth and Depth for Generative Reward Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-beyond-length-scaling-synergizing-breadth/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Qiyuan Zhang, Yufei Wang, Tianhe Wu, et al.*2026*
40. **[CIRAG: Construction–Integration Retrieval and Adaptive Generation for Multi-hop Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wei-2026-cirag-construction-integration-retrieval-adaptive/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Zili Wei, Yilin Wang, Xiaocui Yang, et al.*2026*
41. **[Debiasing Reward Models via Causally Motivated Inference-Time Intervention](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shinoda-2026-debiasing-reward-models-causally-motivated/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Kazutoshi Shinoda, Kosuke Nishida, Kyosuke Nishida*2026*
42. **[Follow the Path: Reasoning over Knowledge Graph Paths to Improve Large Language Model Factuality](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-follow-path-reasoning-over-knowledge/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Mike Zhang, Johannes Bjerva, Russa Biswas*2026*
43. **[LCR-RAG: Enhancing Logical Consistency in Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Neuro-symbolic Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zheng-2026-lcr-rag-enhancing-logical-consistency/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Wenxiang Zheng, Guo Tang, Shixin Jiang, et al.*2026*
44. **[mSCoRe: A Multilingual and Scalable Benchmark for Skill-based Commonsense Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ngo-2026-mscore-multilingual-scalable-benchmark-skill/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Nghia Trung Ngo, Franck Dernoncourt, Thien Huu Nguyen*2026*
45. **[PRISM: Probabilistic Reward Model with Inherent Structural Modeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2026-prism-probabilistic-reward-model-inherent/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yuhang Zhou, Yixin Cao, Yuchen Ni, et al.*2026*
46. **[RAG in the Wild: On the (In)effectiveness of LLMs with Mixture-of-Knowledge Retrieval Augmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-rag-wild-effectiveness-llms-mixture/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Ran Xu, Yuchen Zhuang, Yue Yu, et al.*2026*
47. **[ReflectRM: Boosting Generative Reward Models via Self-Reflection within a Unified Judgment Framework](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qin-2026-reflectrm-boosting-generative-reward-models/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Kai Qin, Liangxin Liu, Yu Liang, et al.*2026*
48. **[RiT: Rubrics-in-Thinking Reinforcement Learning for Improved Reasoning in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tian-2026-rit-rubrics-thinking-reinforcement-learning/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Xiaobin Tian, Shuai Yuan, Muyun Ding, et al.*2026*
49. **[SDiaReward: Modeling and Benchmarking Spoken Dialogue Rewards with Modality and Colloquialness](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2026-sdiareward-modeling-benchmarking-spoken-dialogue/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Jingyu Lu, Yuhan Wang, Fan Zhuo, et al.*2026*
50. **[Targeted Exploration via Unified Entropy Control for Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-targeted-exploration-unified-entropy-control/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Chen Wang, Lai Wei, Yanzhi Zhang, et al.*2026*
51. **[Teaching LLM to be Persuasive: Reward-Enhanced Policy Optimization for Alignment from Heterogeneous Rewards](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zeng-2026-teaching-llm-be-persuasive-reward/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Xia Zeng, Yihan Chen, Luhui Liu, et al.*2026*
52. **[WildReward: Learning Reward Models from In-the-Wild Human Interactions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/peng-2026-wildreward-learning-reward-models-wild/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Hao Peng, Yunjia Qi, Xiaozhi Wang, et al.*2026*

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