--- title: "Hexiang Hu — author profile and papers · Vision & language" description: "Hexiang Hu: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 26 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hexiang-hu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hexiang-hu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Hexiang Hu # Hexiang Hu Hexiang Hu has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, 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/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/); often with [Alan Ritter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-ritter/), [Ming-Wei Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ming-wei-chang/), [Pat Verga](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pat-verga/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5065708799) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4720-169X) · [**h-index 26**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5065708799) · [54 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5065708799) · [4,084 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5065708799&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hexiang-hu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2,414 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hexiang-hu/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4161](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/42/#star-4161) 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=Hexiang+Hu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Hexiang+Hu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Hexiang+Hu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Hexiang+Hu) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 2017–2022 · 25 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2020–2024 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🎓**Simon Fraser University** Burnaby · Canada 2016 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/simon-fraser-university/) 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 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/) · [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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 4 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/) · [Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper 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/) · [**2022** 1 paper MuRAG: Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generator for Open Question Answering over Images and Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2022-murag-multimodal-retrieval-augmented-generator/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MuRAG: Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generator for Open Question Answering over Images and Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2022-murag-multimodal-retrieval-augmented-generator/)** *(2022 · 196 citations)* Retrieval-augmented language models such as REALM, RAG, FiD and RETRO fetch knowledge from an external index rather than storing everything in their parameters. 2. **[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 · 109 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. ## 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. **[MuRAG: Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generator for Open Question Answering over Images and Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2022-murag-multimodal-retrieval-augmented-generator/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Wenhu Chen, Hexiang Hu, Xi Chen, et al.*2022 · 196 citations* 2. **[Pix2Struct: Screenshot Parsing as Pretraining for Visual Language Understanding](https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.03347) arXiv:2210.03347 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Kenton Lee et al.*2022 · 152 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 · 109 citations* 4. **[Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More?](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13121) arXiv:2406.13121 · original ↗ · no summary yet**Jinhyuk Lee et al.*2024 · 51 citations* ## 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/) - [Ming-Wei Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ming-wei-chang/) - [Pat Verga](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pat-verga/) - [Soravit Changpinyo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/soravit-changpinyo/) - [Wenhu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenhu-chen/) - [William W. Cohen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-w-cohen/) - [Xi Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xi-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/), [EMNLP 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2022/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2,414 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [177 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hexiang-hu/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026