--- title: "Zixuan Ke — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Zixuan Ke, Salesforce: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zixuan-ke/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zixuan-ke/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zixuan Ke # Zixuan Ke Zixuan Ke has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Austin Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/austin-xu/), [Caiming Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caiming-xiong/), [Cheng Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-li/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5013224749) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5013224749) · [43 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5013224749) · [361 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5013224749&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zixuan-ke/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 68 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zixuan-ke/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8759](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/88/#star-8759) 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=Zixuan+Ke) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zixuan+Ke) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zixuan+Ke) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zixuan+Ke) ## Affiliations [🏢**Salesforce** San Francisco · United States 2024–2026 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/salesforce/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Chicago** Chicago · United States 2021–2023 · 16 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-chicago/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions 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).[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/) · [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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zixuan-ke/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zixuan-ke/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Bridging the Preference Gap between Retrievers and LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ke-2024-bridging-preference-gap-between-retrievers/)** *(2024 · 46 citations)* Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems usually pair a retriever built around human reading habits, where rank order matters most, with an LLM that may want its context assembled differently. 2. **[A Survey of Frontiers in LLM Reasoning: Inference Scaling, Learning to Reason, and Agentic Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ke-2025-survey-frontiers-llm-reasoning-inference/)** *(2025 · 39 citations)* Research on LLM reasoning has grown rapidly since chain-of-thought prompting appeared in 2022. Earlier surveys mostly covered test-time techniques for a single model. This survey, by authors from Salesforce AI Research and universities in Singapore and Hong Kong, organizes the field along two independent axes. ## Co-authors here 12 of 15 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Austin Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/austin-xu/) - [Caiming Xiong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caiming-xiong/) - [Cheng Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-li/) - [Chengwei Qin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chengwei-qin/) - [Do Xuan Long](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/do-xuan-long/) - [Fangkai Jiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fangkai-jiao/) - [Michael Bendersky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-bendersky/) - [Mingyang Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingyang-zhang/) - [Minzhi Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minzhi-li/) - [Peifeng Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peifeng-wang/) - [Qiaozhu Mei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qiaozhu-mei/) - [Shafiq Joty](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shafiq-joty/) ## 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 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 68 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [18 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zixuan-ke/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026