--- title: "Zikai Xiao — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Zikai Xiao: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zikai-xiao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zikai-xiao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zikai Xiao # Zikai Xiao Zikai Xiao 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/); often with [Fei Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-huang/), [Jianhong Tu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianhong-tu/), [Li Sheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/li-sheng/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101301177) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101301177) · [14 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101301177) · [50 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101301177&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zikai-xiao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 5 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zikai-xiao/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10619](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/107/#star-10619) 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=Zikai+Xiao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zikai+Xiao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zikai+Xiao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zikai+Xiao) ## Affiliations [🎓**Guangzhou University** Guangzhou · China 2023–2025 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/guangzhou-university/) · [🎓**Zhejiang Normal University** Jinhua · China 2024–2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-normal-university/) · [🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 2023–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution 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 · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](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 · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zikai-xiao/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zikai-xiao/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Mitigating Posterior Salience Attenuation in Long-Context LLMs with Positional Contrastive Decoding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xiao-2025-mitigating-posterior-salience-attenuation-long/)** *(2025 · 5 citations)* Long-context LLMs often perform worse as inputs grow, even when the input fits inside their nominal context window. 2. **[Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zuo-2026-qwen-agentworld-language-world/)** *(2026)* LLM agent research has mostly focused on the policy, which picks actions from states. The complementary piece is a world model that predicts the next state from a state and an action, and agents working in text-based environments still lack a general one. The Qwen Team builds such a model, Qwen-AgentWorld. It… ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Fei Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-huang/) - [Jianhong Tu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianhong-tu/) - [Li Sheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/li-sheng/) - [Tianyi Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyi-tang/) - [Wei Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-shen/) - [Xiaomeng Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaomeng-hu/) - [Yan Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yan-wang/) - [Yan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yan-zhang/) - [Yang Su](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-su/) - [Yantao Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yantao-liu/) - [Yuxin Zuo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuxin-zuo/) - [Yuxuan Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuxuan-liu/) ## 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 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 5 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zikai-xiao/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026