--- title: "Haitian Sun — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Haitian Sun, Northwest A&F University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haitian-sun/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haitian-sun/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Haitian Sun # Haitian Sun Haitian Sun has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Alan Ritter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-ritter/), [Bhuwan Dhingra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bhuwan-dhingra/), [Hexiang Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hexiang-hu/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5103141237) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1614-5004) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5103141237) · [57 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5103141237) · [1,260 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5103141237&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haitian-sun/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 448 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haitian-sun/cited-by/) · [9 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7723](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/78/#star-7723) 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=Haitian+Sun) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Haitian+Sun) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Haitian+Sun) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Haitian+Sun) ## Affiliations [🎓**Northwest A&F University** Yangling · China 2020–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://ror.org/0051rme32) · [🔬**South Subtropical Crops Research Institute** Zhanjiang · China 2020–2025 · 11 papers](https://ror.org/04jeca075) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2019–2023 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences** Haikou · China 2021–2025 · 9 papers](https://ror.org/003qeh975) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2018–2024 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Iwate University** Morioka · Japan 2016–2020 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/04cd75h10) · [🎓**Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine** Nanjing · China 2024–2025 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/04523zj19) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🎓**Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University** Daqing · China 2016–2022 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/030jxf285) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 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 6 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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 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/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haitian-sun/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haitian-sun/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Can Pre-trained Vision and Language Models Answer Visual Information-Seeking Questions?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2023-can-pre-trained-vision-language/)** *(2023 · 111 citations)* The paper asks whether current pre-trained vision-language models can handle questions about an image that need specific factual knowledge not visible in the picture, such as when a pictured church was built. 2. **[Over-Searching in Search-Augmented Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2026-over-searching-search-augmented-large/)** *(2026)* Search-augmented LLMs can call a search tool even when doing so offers no benefit, such as when the answer is already within the model's knowledge or when no answer exists for the question. ## All works 11 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. **[Open Domain Question Answering Using Early Fusion of Knowledge Bases and Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D18-1455/) Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Haitian Sun et al.*2018 · 623 citations* 2. **[PullNet: Open Domain Question Answering with Iterative Retrieval on Knowledge Bases and Text ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D19-1242/) Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) · no summary yet**Haitian Sun, Tania Bedrax-Weiss, William Cohen*2019 · 479 citations* 3. **[Can Pre-trained Vision and Language Models Answer Visual Information-Seeking Questions?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2023-can-pre-trained-vision-language/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Yang Chen, Hexiang Hu, Yi Luan, et al.*2023 · 111 citations* 4. **[LEGO: Latent Execution-Guided Reasoning for Multi-Hop Question Answering on Knowledge Graphs ↗](https://openalex.org/W3167967639) International Conference on Machine Learning · no summary yet**Hongyu Ren et al.*2021 · 49 citations* 5. **[ConditionalQA: A Complex Reading Comprehension Dataset with Conditional Answers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.253/) Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Haitian Sun, William Cohen, Ruslan Salakhutdinov*2022 · 34 citations* 6. **[Reasoning Over Virtual Knowledge Bases With Open Predicate Relations ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.07043) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Haitian Sun et al.*2021 · 27 citations* 7. **[End-to-End Multihop Retrieval for Compositional Question Answering over Long Documents ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.00200) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Haitian Sun, William W. Cohen, Ruslan Salakhutdinov*2021 · 20 citations* 8. **[Answering Ambiguous Questions with a Database of Questions, Answers, and Revisions ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.08661) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Haitian Sun, William W. Cohen, Ruslan Salakhutdinov*2023 · 6 citations* 9. **[Reasoning over Logically Interacted Conditions for Question Answering ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.12898) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Haitian Sun, William W. Cohen, Ruslan Salakhutdinov*2022 · 6 citations* 10. **[Automatic Question-Answer Generation for Long-Tail Knowledge ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.01382) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Rohan S. Kumar et al.*2024 · 4 citations* 11. **[Over-Searching in Search-Augmented Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2026-over-searching-search-augmented-large/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Roy Xie, Deepak Gopinath, David Qiu, et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alan Ritter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-ritter/) - [Bhuwan Dhingra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bhuwan-dhingra/) - [Hexiang Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hexiang-hu/) - [Ming-Wei Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ming-wei-chang/) - [Saloni Potdar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saloni-potdar/) - [Soravit Changpinyo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/soravit-changpinyo/) - [Yang Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-chen/) - [Yi Luan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-luan/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) ×2: [EMNLP 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2023/) - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - International Conference on Machine Learning - Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) - Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 448 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [52 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haitian-sun/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026