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# Chen Sun

Chen Sun has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2019; often with [Abhinav Gupta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abhinav-gupta/), [Carl Vondrick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carl-vondrick/), [Kevin P. Murphy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-p-murphy/).

2 papers in our library · 2017–2019

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100722234) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8772-9627) · [**h-index 40**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100722234) · [159 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100722234) · [17,408 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100722234&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-sun/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 689 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-sun/cited-by/) · [19 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #895](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/9/#star-895)

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=Chen+Sun) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Chen+Sun) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Chen+Sun) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Chen+Sun)

## Affiliations

[🎓**University of Hong Kong** Pok Fu Lam · China 2024–2027 · 1 paperEmployment since 2024 · Assistant ProfessorEmployment 2024–2027 · Assistant Professor, Department of Data and System Engineering*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-hong-kong/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2016–2026 · 52 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Brown University** Providence · United States 2021–2026 · 37 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/brown-university/) · [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 2013–2017 · 15 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🎓**Georgia Institute of Technology** Atlanta · United States 2017 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgia-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**University of Waterloo** Waterloo · Canada Employment · Postdoctoral Scholar, Faculty of Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 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 3 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/)

💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Semantics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/semantics/)

## Works by year

### 2010s

[**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-sun/year/2019/) · [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-sun/year/2017/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Revisiting Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data in Deep Learning Era](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2017-revisiting-unreasonable-effectiveness-data-deep/)** *(2017 · 2,512 citations)* Since AlexNet, vision models and GPU compute have grown rapidly, yet the largest labeled pre-training set in common use stayed at ImageNet's scale of about 1M images.
2. **[VideoBERT: A Joint Model for Video and Language Representation Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2019-videobert-joint-model-video-language/)** *(2019 · 1,345 citations)* Most self-supervised video methods learn low-level cues such as textures or motion lasting under a second.

## All works

21 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. **[Speed/Accuracy Trade-Offs for Modern Convolutional Object Detectors ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2017.351) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Jonathan Huang et al.*2017 · 2,748 citations*
2. **[ViViT: A Video Vision Transformer ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv48922.2021.00676) IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · no summary yet**Anurag Arnab et al.*2021 · 2,738 citations*
3. **[Revisiting Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data in Deep Learning Era](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2017-revisiting-unreasonable-effectiveness-data-deep/) [IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-international-conference-on-computer-vision-iccv/)**Chen Sun, Abhinav Shrivastava, Saurabh Singh, et al.*2017 · 2,512 citations*
4. **[Rethinking Spatiotemporal Feature Learning: Speed-Accuracy Trade-offs in Video Classification ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01267-0_19) Lecture notes in computer science · no summary yet**Saining Xie et al.*2018 · 1,494 citations*
5. **[VideoBERT: A Joint Model for Video and Language Representation Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2019-videobert-joint-model-video-language/) [IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-cvf-international-conference-on-computer-vision-iccv/)**Chen Sun, Austin Myers, Carl Vondrick, et al.*2019 · 1,345 citations*
6. **[DenseTNT: End-to-end Trajectory Prediction from Dense Goal Sets ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv48922.2021.01502) IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · no summary yet**Junru Gu, Chen Sun, Hang Zhao*2021 · 505 citations*
7. **[Composing Text and Image for Image Retrieval - an Empirical Odyssey ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2019.00660) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Nam Vo et al.*2019 · 417 citations*
8. **[Multiview Transformers for Video Recognition ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr52688.2022.00333) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Yan Shen et al.*2022 · 304 citations*
9. **[Does Vision-and-Language Pretraining Improve Lexical Grounding? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-emnlp.370/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021 · no summary yet**Tian Yun, Chen Sun, Ellie Pavlick*2021 · 40 citations*
10. **[TL;DW? Summarizing Instructional Videos with Task Relevance and Cross-Modal Saliency ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19830-4_31) Lecture notes in computer science · no summary yet**Medhini Narasimhan et al.*2022 · 24 citations*
11. **[Speech2Action: Cross-Modal Supervision for Action Recognition ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr42600.2020.01033) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Arsha Nagrani et al.*2020 · 15 citations*
12. **[The End-of-End-to-End: A Video Understanding Pentathlon Challenge (2020) ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00744) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Samuel Albanie et al.*2020 · 12 citations*
13. **[Fluid: Scaling Autoregressive Text-to-image Generative Models with Continuous Tokens ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.13863) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Lijie Fan et al.*2024 · 10 citations*
14. **[Do Vision-Language Pretrained Models Learn Composable Primitive Concepts? ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.17271) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Tian Yun et al.*2022 · 7 citations*
15. **[LoGeR: Long-Context Geometric Reconstruction with Hybrid Memory ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-37135-5_15) Lecture notes in computer science · no summary yet**Junyi Zhang et al.*2026 · 6 citations*
16. **[Emergence of Abstract State Representations in Embodied Sequence Modeling ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.749/) Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Tian Yun et al.*2023 · 5 citations*
17. **[Do Trajectories Encode Verb Meaning? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.206/) Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yet**Dylan Ebert, Chen Sun, Ellie Pavlick*2022 · 5 citations*
18. **[Analyzing Modular Approaches for Visual Question Decomposition ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.157/) Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Apoorv Khandelwal, Ellie Pavlick, Chen Sun*2023 · 4 citations*
19. **[Comparing Trajectory and Vision Modalities for Verb Representation ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.12737) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Dylan Ebert, Chen Sun, Ellie Pavlick*2023 · 2 citations*
20. **[TL;DW? Summarizing Instructional Videos with Task Relevance & Cross-Modal Saliency ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.06773) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Medhini Narasimhan et al.*2022 · 1 citation*
21. **[What is an “Abstract Reasoner”? Revisiting Experiments and Arguments about Large Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.conll-1.11/) Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning · no summary yet**Tian Yun, Chen Sun, Ellie Pavlick*2025*

## Co-authors here

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

- [Abhinav Gupta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abhinav-gupta/)
- [Carl Vondrick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carl-vondrick/)
- [Kevin P. Murphy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-p-murphy/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings ×4
- [IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-cvf-international-conference-on-computer-vision-iccv/) ×3: [ICCV 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-cvf-international-conference-on-computer-vision-iccv/2019/)
- Lecture notes in computer science ×3
- Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing ×2
- [IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-international-conference-on-computer-vision-iccv/): [ICCV 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-international-conference-on-computer-vision-iccv/2017/)
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021
- Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
- Proceedings of the 29th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 689 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [65 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-sun/cited-by/).

Updated 2 November 2026