--- title: "Zitong Yang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Zitong Yang, Xi'an Jiaotong University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zitong-yang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zitong-yang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zitong Yang # Zitong Yang Zitong Yang has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026; often with [Emmanuel J. Candès](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emmanuel-j-candes/), [Tatsunori Hashimoto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tatsunori-hashimoto/), [Chenglei Si](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenglei-si/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5091211736) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0002-0447-6156) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5091211736) · [14 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5091211736) · [205 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5091211736&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zitong-yang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 550 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zitong-yang/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3780](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/38/#star-3780) 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=Zitong+Yang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zitong+Yang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zitong+Yang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zitong+Yang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Xi'an Jiaotong University** Xi'an · China 2025–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/xi-an-jiaotong-university/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2024–2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2019–2021 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) 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 5 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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [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/) · [Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zitong-yang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zitong-yang/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[s1: Simple test-time scaling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/muennighoff-2025-s1-simple-test-time-scaling/)** *(2025 · 608 citations)* The paper looks for the most minimal recipe that gives a language model both strong reasoning and clear test-time scaling, meaning accuracy rises as the model is allowed to think longer. 2. **[Towards Execution-Grounded Automated AI Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/si-2026-towards-execution-grounded-automated-ai/)** *(2026 · 7 citations)* LLMs can propose research ideas that sound convincing but fail when tested. This paper asks two questions: can idea testing be automated at scale, and can models improve from the measured results? The authors built an automated executor. An Implementer turns natural-language ideas into code diffs, a Scheduler assigns… ## All works 4 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. **[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. **[Rethinking Bias-Variance Trade-off for Generalization of Neural Networks ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.11328) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Zitong Yang et al.*2020 · 81 citations* 3. **[Understanding Generalization in Adversarial Training via the Bias-Variance Decomposition ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09947) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Yaodong Yu et al.*2021 · 11 citations* 4. [**Towards Execution-Grounded Automated AI Research arXiv:2601.14525**Chenglei Si, Zitong Yang, Yejin Choi, et al.*2026 · 7 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/si-2026-towards-execution-grounded-automated-ai/) ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Emmanuel J. Candès](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emmanuel-j-candes/) ×2 - [Tatsunori Hashimoto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tatsunori-hashimoto/) ×2 - [Chenglei Si](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenglei-si/) - [Diyi Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/diyi-yang/) - [Hannaneh Hajishirzi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannaneh-hajishirzi/) - [Li Fei-Fei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/li-fei-fei/) - [Luke Zettlemoyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luke-zettlemoyer/) - [Niklas Muennighoff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/niklas-muennighoff/) - [Percy Liang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/percy-liang/) - [Weijia Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weijia-shi/) - [Xiang Lisa Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiang-lisa-li/) - [Yejin Choi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yejin-choi/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 550 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [170 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zitong-yang/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026