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# Han Liu

Han Liu has 7 papers in our library, in 2020–2026, 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/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Hong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hong-yu/), [Hui Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hui-li/), [Jianshu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianshu-zhang/).

7 papers in our library · 2020–2026

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5139759083) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5139759083) · [7 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139759083) · [5 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139759083&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 7 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/han-liu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 146 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/han-liu/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4665](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/47/#star-4665)

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

## Affiliations

[🎓**Dalian University of Technology** Dalian · China 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dalian-university-of-technology/) · [🎓**Northwestern University** Evanston · United States 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northwestern-university/) · [🎓**Shenzhen University** Shenzhen · China 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shenzhen-university/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

## Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 7 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 7 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 7 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 7 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Materials Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/materials-science/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) · [Materials Chemistry · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/materials-science/materials-chemistry/)

🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Morphology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2026** 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/han-liu/year/2026/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/han-liu/year/2021/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/han-liu/year/2020/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Few-shot Slot Tagging with Collapsed Dependency Transfer and Label-enhanced Task-adaptive Projection Network](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2020-few-shot-slot-tagging-collapsed/)** *(2020 · 265 citations)* The paper addresses slot tagging for task-oriented dialogue when a new domain provides only one or five labeled support sentences per label.
2. **[Morphology Matters: A Multilingual Language Modeling Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/park-2021-morphology-matters-multilingual-language-modeling/)** *(2021 · 64 citations)* Earlier multilingual language-modeling studies disagreed on whether rich inflectional morphology makes a language harder to model.
3. **[A Survey of Large Language Models for Text-Guided Molecular Discovery: From Molecule Generation to Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-survey-large-language-models-text/)** *(2026 · 7 citations)* This survey reviews how large language models are used to design molecules from text instructions. It covers two tasks: generating new molecules from scratch and editing an existing molecule to improve its properties. The authors limit the scope to models with over 1B parameters that directly output molecular…
4. **[ProgressLM: Towards Progress Reasoning in Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-progresslm-progress-reasoning-vision-language/)** *(2026 · 7 citations)* The paper asks whether vision-language models can judge how far a task has advanced when they see only one intermediate frame plus a demonstration of the full task.
5. **[DS2-Instruct: Domain-Specific Data Synthesis for Large Language Models Instruction Tuning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-ds2-instruct-domain-specific-data/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Instruction-tuning an LLM for a specialized field usually requires expensive expert annotation. The alternatives are domain corpora, which are often proprietary or missing, or human-written seed examples. DS2-Instruct removes these requirements. It is a zero-shot pipeline that builds domain instruction data from only…
6. **[Uncertainty-Aware Contrastive Sentence Embedding With Local Context Representation for Text Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-uncertainty-aware-contrastive-sentence-embedding/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The paper tackles a frozen pre-trained language model whose sentence vectors are poorly tuned for text classification.
7. **[Pru-CoT: Towards Efficient Reasoning Distillation via Pruning Chain-of-Thought](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-pru-cot-efficient-reasoning-distillation/)** *(2026)* Large reasoning models such as DeepSeek-R1 produce long Chain-of-Thought (CoT) traces that often include repeated checks and trivial restatements ("overthinking").

## All works

8 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 7 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[Few-shot Slot Tagging with Collapsed Dependency Transfer and Label-enhanced Task-adaptive Projection Network](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hou-2020-few-shot-slot-tagging-collapsed/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yutai Hou, Wanxiang Che, Yongkui Lai, et al.*2020 · 265 citations*
2. **[Morphology Matters: A Multilingual Language Modeling Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/park-2021-morphology-matters-multilingual-language-modeling/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Hyunji Hayley Park, Katherine J. Zhang, Coleman Haley, et al.*2021 · 64 citations*
3. **[A Survey of Large Language Models for Text-Guided Molecular Discovery: From Molecule Generation to Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-survey-large-language-models-text/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Ziqing Wang, Kexin Zhang, Zihan Zhao, et al.*2026 · 7 citations*
4. **[ProgressLM: Towards Progress Reasoning in Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-progresslm-progress-reasoning-vision-language/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Jianshu Zhang, Chengxuan Qian, Haosen Sun, et al.*2026 · 7 citations*
5. **[DS2-Instruct: Domain-Specific Data Synthesis for Large Language Models Instruction Tuning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-ds2-instruct-domain-specific-data/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Ruiyao Xu, Noelle I. Samia, Han Liu*2026 · 2 citations*
6. **[Uncertainty-Aware Contrastive Sentence Embedding With Local Context Representation for Text Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-uncertainty-aware-contrastive-sentence-embedding/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Han Liu, Jiaqing Zhan, Zhichao Chen, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
7. **[Pru-CoT: Towards Efficient Reasoning Distillation via Pruning Chain-of-Thought](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-pru-cot-efficient-reasoning-distillation/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Han Liu, Shuotian Ma, Hui Li, et al.*2026*
8. **[TIGER: Text-Informed Generalized Enzyme-Reaction Retrieval ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1643/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Yuhang Zhang et al.*2026*

## Co-authors here

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

- [Hong Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hong-yu/)
- [Hui Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hui-li/)
- [Jianshu Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianshu-zhang/)
- [Kaize Ding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaize-ding/)
- [Kexin Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kexin-zhang/)
- [Lane Schwartz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lane-schwartz/)
- [Ruiyao Xu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruiyao-xu/)
- [Ting Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ting-liu/)
- [Wanxiang Che](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wanxiang-che/)
- [Yijia Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yijia-liu/)
- [Yutai Hou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yutai-hou/)
- [Ziqing Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziqing-wang/)

## Venues

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

- [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×4: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) ×2, [ACL 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2020/)
- [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/) ×3: [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ×3
- [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2021/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 146 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [21 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/han-liu/cited-by/).

Updated 1 November 2026