--- title: "Cihang Xie — author profile and papers · Vision & language" description: "Cihang Xie, University of California, Santa Cruz: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025), h-index 27 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cihang-xie/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cihang-xie/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Cihang Xie # Cihang Xie Cihang Xie has 2 papers in our library, in 2025, most of them on [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/), [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 [Haoqin Tu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haoqin-tu/), [Hardy Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hardy-chen/), [Hui Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hui-liu/). 2 papers in our library · 2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5022344556) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1243-8045) · [**h-index 27**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5022344556) · [124 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5022344556) · [6,387 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5022344556&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cihang-xie/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 121 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cihang-xie/cited-by/) · [7 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7922](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/80/#star-7922) 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=Cihang+Xie) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Cihang+Xie) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Cihang+Xie) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Cihang+Xie) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California, Santa Cruz** Santa Cruz · United States 2020–2026 · 71 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-cruz/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2016–2024 · 17 papersEducation 2016–2020 · Ph.D., Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**Huazhong University of Science and Technology** Wuhan · China 2010–2014 · 1 paperEducation 2010–2014 · Bachelor, Telecommunications Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology/) 🏛️**University of California Santa Cruz Jack Baskin School of Engineering** Santa Cruz · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2021Employment since 2021 · Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering [🎓**University of California, Los Angeles** Los Angeles · United States 2014–2015Education 2014–2015 · Master, Electrical Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-los-angeles/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 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 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Vision & language · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](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** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cihang-xie/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[SFT or RL? An Early Investigation into Training R1-Like Reasoning Large Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2025-sft-rl-early-investigation-training/)** *(2025 · 37 citations)* The authors examine whether the common recipe of supervised fine-tuning followed by reinforcement learning, popularised by DeepSeek-R1, also works for Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). 2. **[ViLBench: A Suite for Vision-Language Process Reward Modeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tu-2025-vilbench-suite-vision-language-process/)** *(2025 · 9 citations)* Process reward models (PRMs) score every reasoning step rather than only the final answer, which helps pick good solution paths. ## All works 9 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. **[Improving Transferability of Adversarial Examples With Input Diversity ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2019.00284) 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**Cihang Xie et al.*2019 · 1,255 citations* 2. **[Feature Denoising for Improving Adversarial Robustness ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2019.00059) 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**Cihang Xie et al.*2019 · 915 citations* 3. **[Adversarial Examples Improve Image Recognition ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr42600.2020.00090) 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**Cihang Xie et al.*2020 · 506 citations* 4. **[Smooth Adversarial Training ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14536) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Cihang Xie et al.*2020 · 92 citations* 5. [**SFT or RL? An Early Investigation into Training R1-Like Reasoning Large Vision-Language Models arXiv:2504.11468**Hardy Chen, Haoqin Tu, Fali Wang, et al.*2025 · 37 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2025-sft-rl-early-investigation-training/) 6. **[VHELM: A Holistic Evaluation of Vision Language Models ↗](https://doi.org/10.52202/079017-4464) neural information processing systems · no summary yet**Tong Lee et al.*2024 · 34 citations* 7. **[ViLBench: A Suite for Vision-Language Process Reward Modeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tu-2025-vilbench-suite-vision-language-process/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Haoqin Tu, Weitao Feng, Hardy Chen, et al.*2025 · 9 citations* 8. **[AHELM: A Holistic Evaluation of Audio-Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21376) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Tong Lee et al.*2025 · 7 citations* 9. **[Alignment Tipping Process: How Self-Evolution Pushes LLM Agents Off the Rails ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04860) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Siwei Han et al.*2025 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Haoqin Tu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haoqin-tu/) ×2 - [Hardy Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hardy-chen/) ×2 - [Hui Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hui-liu/) ×2 - [Xianfeng Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xianfeng-tang/) ×2 - [Fali Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fali-wang/) - [Xinya Du](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinya-du/) ## 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 ×3 - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) - neural information processing systems ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 121 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [18 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cihang-xie/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026