--- title: "Bairu Hou — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Bairu Hou, University of California, Santa Barbara: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bairu-hou/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bairu-hou/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Bairu Hou # Bairu Hou Bairu Hou 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/); often with [Shiyu Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shiyu-chang/), [Alon Albalak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alon-albalak/), [Colin Raffel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/colin-raffel/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5111136892) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5111136892) · [27 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5111136892) · [169 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5111136892&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bairu-hou/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 153 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bairu-hou/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4865](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/49/#star-4865) 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=Bairu+Hou) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Bairu+Hou) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Bairu+Hou) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Bairu+Hou) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California, Santa Barbara** Santa Barbara · United States 2022–2026 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-barbara/) · [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2020–2021 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) · [🔬**Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology** Beijing · China 2020–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/beijing-national-research-center-for-information-science-and-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 5 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper ThinkPrune: Pruning Long Chain-of-Thought of LLMs via Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2025-thinkprune-pruning-long-chain-thought/) · [**2024** 1 paper A Survey on Data Selection for Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/albalak-2024-survey-data-selection-language-models/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Survey on Data Selection for Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/albalak-2024-survey-data-selection-language-models/)** *(2024 · 85 citations)* Large language models depend on huge web-scale corpora, but using every available document is often wasteful or harmful because text quality varies widely. 2. **[ThinkPrune: Pruning Long Chain-of-Thought of LLMs via Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2025-thinkprune-pruning-long-chain-thought/)** *(2025 · 64 citations)* Reasoning models trained to produce long chains of thought often generate redundant, inefficient reasoning, which inflates inference cost. ## 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. [**A Survey on Data Selection for Language Models**Alon Albalak, Yanai Elazar, Sang Michael Xie, et al.*arXiv:2402.16827 · 85 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/albalak-2024-survey-data-selection-language-models/) 2. [**ThinkPrune: Pruning Long Chain-of-Thought of LLMs via Reinforcement Learning**Bairu Hou, Yang Zhang, Jiabao Ji, et al.*arXiv:2504.01296 · 64 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2025-thinkprune-pruning-long-chain-thought/) 3. **[A Probabilistic Framework for LLM Hallucination Detection via Belief Tree Propagation](https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.158/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of…**Bairu Hou et al.*2025 · 12 citations* 4. **[WebDART: Dynamic Decomposition and Re-planning for Complex Web Tasks](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.568/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026**Jingbo Yang et al.*2026 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Shiyu Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shiyu-chang/) ×2 - [Alon Albalak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alon-albalak/) - [Colin Raffel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/colin-raffel/) - [Jacob Andreas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacob-andreas/) - [Liangming Pan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liangming-pan/) - [Nathan Lambert](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathan-lambert/) - [Niklas Muennighoff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/niklas-muennighoff/) - [Sang Michael Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sang-michael-xie/) - [Shayne Longpre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shayne-longpre/) - [Xinyi Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyi-wang/) - [Yanai Elazar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yanai-elazar/) - [Yang Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-zhang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics… - Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the… ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 153 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bairu-hou/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026