Yunji Chen

8.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
120 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Yunji Chen is a scholar working on Hardware and Architecture, Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Yunji Chen has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 68 papers in Hardware and Architecture, 51 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and 40 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Yunji Chen's work include Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (55 papers), Advanced Neural Network Applications (32 papers) and Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (30 papers). Yunji Chen is often cited by papers focused on Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques (55 papers), Advanced Neural Network Applications (32 papers) and Advanced Memory and Neural Computing (30 papers). Yunji Chen collaborates with scholars based in China, France and United States. Yunji Chen's co-authors include Tianshi Chen, Olivier Temam, Zidong Du, Shaoli Liu, Chengyong Wu, Tao Luo, Ling Li, Ninghui Sun, Shijin Zhang and Zhiwei Xu and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Proceedings of the IEEE and Communications of the ACM.

In The Last Decade

Yunji Chen

111 papers receiving 5.6k 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.

DaDianNao: A Machine-Learning Supercomputer

2014 1.1k citations Yunji Chen, Tao Luo et al. profile →
DianNao

2014 944 citations Tianshi Chen, Zidong Du et al. profile →
ShiDianNao

2015 657 citations Zidong Du, Tianshi Chen et al. profile →
Cambricon-X: An accelerator for sparse neural networks

2016 432 citations Shijin Zhang, Zidong Du et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Yunji Chen China	26	3.4k	3.0k	1.8k	1.8k	1.1k	120	5.8k
Tianshi Chen China	25	3.1k 0.9×	2.8k 0.9×	1.9k 1.0×	1.4k 0.8×	888 0.8×	83	5.5k
Olivier Temam France	37	3.3k 1.0×	2.3k 0.8×	1.7k 0.9×	2.8k 1.6×	1.8k 1.7×	118	6.3k
Zidong Du China	19	2.1k 0.6×	2.1k 0.7×	1.3k 0.7×	904 0.5×	476 0.4×	68	3.6k
Leibo Liu China	35	2.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.5×	1.3k 0.7×	1.6k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	399	5.4k
Shaojun Wei China	32	2.2k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	1.3k 0.8×	1.1k 1.0×	381	4.4k
Shouyi Yin China	33	2.3k 0.7×	1.4k 0.5×	1.2k 0.6×	1.4k 0.8×	1.2k 1.1×	351	4.6k
Tushar Krishna United States	34	5.2k 1.5×	2.1k 0.7×	1.7k 0.9×	5.3k 3.0×	4.7k 4.3×	168	9.6k
Brucek Khailany United States	31	2.1k 0.6×	1.3k 0.4×	922 0.5×	2.4k 1.4×	1.6k 1.5×	81	4.6k
Jason Cong United States	54	6.9k 2.0×	2.5k 0.8×	1.8k 1.0×	6.9k 3.9×	4.5k 4.1×	404	12.4k
Hadi Esmaeilzadeh United States	30	3.0k 0.9×	1.1k 0.4×	1.1k 0.6×	2.8k 1.6×	1.7k 1.6×	94	5.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Yunji Chen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Yunji Chen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Yunji Chen. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Yunji Chen. The network helps show where Yunji Chen may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Yunji Chen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Yunji Chen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Yunji Chen 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 Yunji Chen. Yunji Chen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Zhang, Zhenxing, Yuanbo Wen, Hairong Lyu, et al.. (2025). AI Computing Systems for Large Language Models Training. Journal of Computer Science and Technology. 40(1). 6–41. 1 indexed citations

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Zhang, Rui, Yuxuan Guo, Zidong Du, et al.. (2024). Emergent Communication for Numerical Concepts Generalization. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 38(16). 17609–17617.

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Liu, Haiyan, et al.. (2024). Hydrogen-Rich Gas Enhanced Sprint-Interval Performance: Metabolomic Insights into Underlying Mechanisms. Nutrients. 16(14). 2341–2341. 2 indexed citations

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Huang, Di, et al.. (2023). Online Symbolic Regression with Informative Query. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 37(4). 5122–5130. 1 indexed citations

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Yi, Qi, Rui Zhang, Jiaming Guo, et al.. (2023). Learning controllable elements oriented representations for reinforcement learning. Neurocomputing. 549. 126455–126455. 2 indexed citations

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Zhao, Yongwei, Zidong Du, Qi Guo, Zhiwei Xu, & Yunji Chen. (2023). Rescue to the Curse of universality. Science China Information Sciences. 66(9).

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Hu, Xing, Rui Zhang, Jiaming Guo, et al.. (2023). Conceptual Reinforcement Learning for Language-Conditioned Tasks. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 37(8). 9426–9434. 1 indexed citations

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Yu, Yong, et al.. (2019). BSHIFT: A Low Cost Deep Neural Networks Accelerator. International Journal of Parallel Programming. 47(3). 360–372. 5 indexed citations

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Chen, Yunji, Zidong Du, Shijin Zhang, et al.. (2018). Addressing Sparsity in Deep Neural Networks. IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems. 38(10). 1858–1871. 11 indexed citations

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Chen, Yunji, Huiying Lan, Zidong Du, et al.. (2018). An Instruction Set Architecture for Machine Learning. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems. 36(3). 1–35. 10 indexed citations

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Liu, Shaoli, Zidong Du, Jinhua Tao, et al.. (2016). Cambricon: An Instruction Set Architecture for Neural Networks. Rare & Special e-Zone (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). 393–405. 76 indexed citations

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Falsafi, Babak, Mircea R. Stan, Kevin Skadron, et al.. (2016). Near-Memory Data Services. IEEE Micro. 36(1). 6–13. 9 indexed citations

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Du, Zidong, Ying Wang, Huawei Li, et al.. (2015). Retraining-based timing error mitigation for hardware neural networks. Design, Automation, and Test in Europe. 593–596. 13 indexed citations

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Guo, Qi, et al.. (2015). HERMES: a fast cross-ISA binary translator with post-optimization. 246–256. 9 indexed citations

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Chen, Yunji, et al.. (2015). Deterministic Replay. ACM Computing Surveys. 48(2). 1–47. 31 indexed citations

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Chen, Tianshi, Zidong Du, Ninghui Sun, et al.. (2014). DianNao. ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News. 42(1). 269–284. 213 indexed citations

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Chen, Tianshi, Ke Tang, Olivier Temam, et al.. (2014). ArchRanker: A ranking approach to design space exploration. 85–96. 8 indexed citations

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Li, Ling, Shaoli Liu, Yunji Chen, Tianshi Chen, & Tao Luo. (2012). Motion Estimation Without Integer-Pel Search. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. 22(4). 1340–1353. 2 indexed citations

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Hu, Weiwu, et al.. (2011). Godson-3B: A 1GHz 40W 8-core 128GFLOPS processor in 65nm CMOS. 76–78. 26 indexed citations

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Chen, Yunji, et al.. (2010). LReplay. 187–197. 35 indexed citations

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