Yafu Li

607 total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 108 citations indexed

About

Yafu Li is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Yafu Li has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 108 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 5 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 1 paper in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Yafu Li's work include Topic Modeling (12 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (11 papers) and Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (5 papers). Yafu Li is often cited by papers focused on Topic Modeling (12 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (11 papers) and Multimodal Machine Learning Applications (5 papers). Yafu Li collaborates with scholars based in China, Germany and Singapore. Yafu Li's co-authors include Yue Zhang, Yongjing Yin, Yulong Chen, Leyang Cui, Jing Li, Linyi Yang, Longyue Wang, Xinting Huang, S. Shi and Shuming Shi and has published in prestigious journals such as Information Fusion, Computational Linguistics and IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing.

In The Last Decade

Yafu Li

14 papers receiving 101 citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

🧜Siren’s Song in the AI Ocean: A Survey on Hallucination in Large Language Models

2025 27 citations Yue Zhang, Yafu Li et al. Computational Linguistics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yafu Li China	6	77	20	7	5	5	17	108
Ekin Akyürek United States	6	83 1.1×	35 1.8×	7 1.0×	6 1.2×	6 1.2×	9	106
Kumar Shridhar Switzerland	7	75 1.0×	14 0.7×	10 1.4×	7 1.4×	4 0.8×	13	98
Hongkun Yu United States	2	83 1.1×	18 0.9×	7 1.0×	2 0.4×	13 2.6×	3	113
Peter Hase United States	5	119 1.5×	32 1.6×	5 0.7×	3 0.6×	7 1.4×	7	138
Barun Patra United States	5	83 1.1×	26 1.3×	5 0.7×	3 0.6×	2 0.4×	15	106
Rafael Rafailov United States	3	37 0.5×	13 0.7×	5 0.7×	2 0.4×	5 1.0×	4	62
Zhouxing Shi United States	7	106 1.4×	12 0.6×	10 1.4×	3 0.6×	1 0.2×	11	116
Wojciech Kryściński United States	6	146 1.9×	19 0.9×	17 2.4×	6 1.2×	5 1.0×	9	158
Tosin Adewumi Sweden	7	73 0.9×	16 0.8×	8 1.1×	1 0.2×	5 1.0×	18	101
Thomas Scialom France	6	158 2.1×	46 2.3×	18 2.6×	5 1.0×	8 1.6×	12	178

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yafu Li

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yafu Li

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yafu Li. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yafu Li based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Yafu Li. Yafu Li is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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17 of 17 papers shown

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Zhang, Yue, Yafu Li, Leyang Cui, et al.. (2025). 🧜Siren’s Song in the AI Ocean: A Survey on Hallucination in Large Language Models. Computational Linguistics. 51(4). 1373–1418. 27 indexed citations breakdown →

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Yan, Jianhao, et al.. (2025). Keys to Robust Edits: From Theoretical Insights to Practical Advances. 22545–22560.

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Zhuang, Honglei, Yun Luo, Yafu Li, et al.. (2025). MCRanker: Generating Diverse Criteria On-the-Fly to Improve Pointwise LLM Rankers. 944–953. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Yafu, Zhilin Wang, Huajian Zhang, et al.. (2025). Lost in Literalism: How Supervised Training Shapes Translationese in LLMs. 12875–12894.

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Luo, Yun, Zhen Yang, Fandong Meng, et al.. (2025). An Empirical Study of Catastrophic Forgetting in Large Language Models During Continual Fine-Tuning. IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing. 33. 3776–3786. 4 indexed citations

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Yin, Yongjing, et al.. (2024). On compositional generalization of transformer-based neural machine translation. Information Fusion. 111. 102491–102491. 2 indexed citations

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Li, Yafu, et al.. (2024). Spotting AI’s Touch: Identifying LLM-Paraphrased Spans in Text. 7088–7107. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Yafu, Huajian Zhang, Jianhao Yan, Yongjing Yin, & Yue Zhang. (2024). What Have We Achieved on Non-autoregressive Translation?. 7585–7606.

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Li, Yafu, Leyang Cui, Longyue Wang, et al.. (2024). MAGE: Machine-generated Text Detection in the Wild. 36–53. 11 indexed citations

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Li, Yafu, Leyang Cui, Jianhao Yan, et al.. (2023). Explicit Syntactic Guidance for Neural Text Generation. 14095–14112. 2 indexed citations

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Yin, Yongjing, Jiali Zeng, Yafu Li, et al.. (2023). Consistency Regularization Training for Compositional Generalization. 1294–1308. 3 indexed citations

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Yang, Linyi, Libo Qin, Yafu Li, et al.. (2023). GLUE-X: Evaluating Natural Language Understanding Models from an Out-of-Distribution Generalization Perspective. 12731–12750. 13 indexed citations

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Chen, Yulong, Huajian Zhang, Yijie Zhou, et al.. (2023). Revisiting Cross-Lingual Summarization: A Corpus-based Study and A New Benchmark with Improved Annotation. 9332–9351. 2 indexed citations

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Cui, Leyang, Yafu Li, & Yue Zhang. (2022). Label Attention Network for Structured Prediction. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing. 30. 1235–1248. 5 indexed citations

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Li, Yafu, Yongjing Yin, Jing Li, & Yue Zhang. (2022). Prompt-Driven Neural Machine Translation. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022. 2579–2590. 14 indexed citations

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Li, Yafu, Leyang Cui, Yongjing Yin, & Yue Zhang. (2022). Multi-Granularity Optimization for Non-Autoregressive Translation. 5073–5084. 4 indexed citations

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Li, Yafu, Yongjing Yin, Yulong Chen, & Yue Zhang. (2021). On Compositional Generalization of Neural Machine Translation. 4767–4780. 19 indexed citations

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