--- title: "Hexiang Tan — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Hexiang Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hexiang-tan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hexiang-tan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Hexiang Tan # Hexiang Tan Hexiang Tan has 3 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Fei Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-sun/), [Xueqi Cheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xueqi-cheng/), [Yuanzhuo Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuanzhuo-wang/). 3 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5113392271) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0000-9104-3871) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5113392271) · [15 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5113392271) · [212 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5113392271&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hexiang-tan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 32 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hexiang-tan/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7792](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/78/#star-7792) 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+Tan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Hexiang+Tan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Hexiang+Tan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Hexiang+Tan) ## Affiliations [🔬**Institute of Computing Technology** Beijing · China 2023–2026 · 11 papersEmployment · PHD, niversity of Chinese Academy of Sciences*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institute-of-computing-technology/) · [🎓**University of Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2023–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2023–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🎓**Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications** Nanjing · China 2020 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/043bpky34) 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hexiang-tan/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hexiang-tan/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hexiang-tan/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Blinded by Generated Contexts: How Language Models Merge Generated and Retrieved Contexts When Knowledge Conflicts?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tan-2024-blinded-generated-contexts-how-language/)** *(2024 · 37 citations)* Hybrid question-answering systems give an LLM two kinds of context: passages it wrote itself and passages retrieved from an external corpus such as Wikipedia. 2. **[Too Consistent to Detect: A Study of Self-Consistent Errors in LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tan-2025-too-consistent-detect-study-self/)** *(2025 · 12 citations)* LLM error detectors often treat agreement across sampled answers as a sign of correctness. This paper identifies a blind spot in that assumption: self-consistent errors , where a model gives the same wrong answer, up to semantic equivalence, in its greedy output and in all stochastic samples. The authors define these… 3. **[BaseCal: Unsupervised Confidence Calibration via Base Model Signals](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tan-2026-basecal-unsupervised-confidence-calibration-base/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Post-trained LLMs (PoLLMs), such as instruction-tuned or RLHF-aligned models, tend to be overconfident: they assign high probability even to wrong answers, which limits the usefulness of confidence for detecting hallucinations. ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Fei Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-sun/) ×3 - [Xueqi Cheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xueqi-cheng/) ×3 - [Yuanzhuo Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuanzhuo-wang/) ×3 - [Du Su](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/du-su/) ×2 - [Jingang Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingang-wang/) ×2 - [Qi Cao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qi-cao/) ×2 - [Wanli Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wanli-yang/) ×2 - [Xin Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xin-chen/) ×2 - [Huawei Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huawei-shen/) - [Xunliang Cai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xunliang-cai/) ## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/), [ACL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2024/) - [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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 32 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hexiang-tan/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026