--- title: "Zinan Lin — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Zinan Lin, Microsoft: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2023), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zinan-lin/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zinan-lin/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zinan Lin # Zinan Lin Zinan Lin has 2 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 [Eugene Brevdo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eugene-brevdo/), [Krzysztof Choromanski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/krzysztof-choromanski/), [Xuefei Ning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuefei-ning/). 2 papers in our library · 2021–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101422411) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8421-2662) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101422411) · [62 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101422411) · [1,250 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101422411&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zinan-lin/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 90 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zinan-lin/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8096](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/81/#star-8096) 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=Zinan+Lin) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zinan+Lin) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zinan+Lin) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zinan+Lin) ## Affiliations [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2023–2026 · 16 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🏢**InterDigital** Wilmington · United States 2009–2026 · 8 papers*current*](https://ror.org/02w335z67) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2017–2023 · 13 papersEducation 2017–2023 · PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) 🏛️**Microsoft Research** Redmond · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2022Employment since 2022 · Principal Researcher, Algorithms Group [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2013–2017Education 2013–2017 · Bachelor of Engineering, Electronic Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Information Systems · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [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/) · [Hardware and Architecture · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/hardware-and-architecture/) 🧭 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 [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zinan-lin/year/2023/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zinan-lin/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Skeleton-of-Thought: Prompting LLMs for Efficient Parallel Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ning-2023-skeleton-thought-prompting-llms-efficient/)** *(2023 · 72 citations)* Answer generation in LLMs is slow largely because tokens are produced strictly one after another. This work tackles that bottleneck without modifying models, serving systems or hardware. Skeleton-of-Thought (SoT) is a two-stage prompting scheme inspired by how people outline before writing. First, the LLM drafts a… 2. **[MLGO: a Machine Learning Guided Compiler Optimizations Framework](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/trofin-2021-mlgo-machine-learning-guided-compiler/)** *(2021 · 42 citations)* Academic research has repeatedly shown that machine learning can outperform hand-written compiler heuristics, yet production-grade compilers had not adopted it. ## All works 5 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. [**Skeleton-of-Thought: Prompting LLMs for Efficient Parallel Generation arXiv:2307.15337**Xuefei Ning, Zinan Lin, Zixuan Zhou, et al.*2023 · 72 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ning-2023-skeleton-thought-prompting-llms-efficient/) 2. [**MLGO: a Machine Learning Guided Compiler Optimizations Framework arXiv:2101.04808**Mircea Trofin, Yundi Qian, Eugene Brevdo, et al.*2021 · 42 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/trofin-2021-mlgo-machine-learning-guided-compiler/) 3. **[RedCode: Risky Code Execution and Generation Benchmark for Code Agents ↗](https://doi.org/10.52202/079017-3369) neural information processing systems · no summary yet**Chengquan Guo et al.*2024 · 27 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. **[RedCodeAgent: Automatic Red-teaming Agent against Diverse Code Agents ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02609) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Chengquan Guo et al.*2025* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Eugene Brevdo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eugene-brevdo/) - [Krzysztof Choromanski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/krzysztof-choromanski/) - [Xuefei Ning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuefei-ning/) - [Yu Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-wang/) - [Zixuan Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zixuan-zhou/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - neural information processing systems ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 90 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [26 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zinan-lin/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026