🧑‍🔬 Hongxin Zhang

Affiliations

• Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications · Beijing, China — current · 2003–2026 on 142 papers
• Hebei University of Technology · Tianjin, China — 2025 on 3 papers
• Zhejiang University · Hangzhou, China — 2004–2024 on 42 papers
• University of Massachusetts Amherst · Amherst Center, United States — 2023–2024 on 2 papers
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Shanghai, China — 2022–2023 on 5 papers
• Chinese Academy of Sciences · Beijing, China — 2009–2023 on 4 papers
• Georgia Institute of Technology · Atlanta, United States — 2023 on 2 papers
• State Key Laboratory of Information Photonics and Optical Communications · Beijing — 2022–2023 on 2 papers
• Zhoukou Normal University · Zhoukou, China — 2021–2023 on 2 papers
• Air Force Medical University · Xi'an, China — 2010–2019 on 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 20 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

Topics

Language models & pretraining1Reasoning1Bias, fairness & safety1

Works by year

2020s

Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Principle-Driven Self-Alignment of Language Models from Scratch with Minimal Human Supervision (2023 · 232 citations)
   Popular AI assistants are usually aligned with supervised fine-tuning and RLHF. Both need large amounts of human annotation, which is expensive and can be inconsistent or biased. Open models such as Alpaca and Vicuna avoid that cost by distilling outputs from already-aligned commercial systems, so they still rely on…
2. On Second Thought, Let's Not Think Step by Step! Bias and Toxicity in Zero-Shot Reasoning (2023 · 180 citations)
   Zero-shot Chain of Thought (CoT) prompting, which appends a cue such as "Let's think step by step", reliably improves LLMs on arithmetic and commonsense tasks.

Also in our library

1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them.

Co-authors here

9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

• Chuang Gan
• David Cox
• Diyi Yang
• Michael S. Bernstein
• Omar Shaikh
• William Held
• Yikang Shen
• Yiming Yang
• Zhiqing Sun

Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 307 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); 31 citing papers with a page here →.

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