--- title: "Honglei Zhuang — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Honglei Zhuang: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2024), h-index 21 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/honglei-zhuang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/honglei-zhuang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Honglei Zhuang # Honglei Zhuang Honglei Zhuang has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Kai Hui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-hui/), [Dara Bahri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dara-bahri/), [Donald Metzler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/donald-metzler/). 2 papers in our library · 2021–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5011279860) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8134-1509) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130855794) · [**h-index 21**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5011279860) · [81 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5011279860) · [1,630 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5011279860&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/honglei-zhuang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 278 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/honglei-zhuang/cited-by/) · [5 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4753](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/48/#star-4753) 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=Honglei+Zhuang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Honglei+Zhuang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Honglei+Zhuang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Honglei+Zhuang) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2020–2025 · 40 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2014–2020 · 19 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2009–2013 · 5 papersEducation 2009–2013 · Bachelor, Computer Science and Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) · [🎓**University of Waterloo** Waterloo · Canada 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/) · [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) 🏛️**University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2013–2019Education 2013–2019 · PhD, Computer Science 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. ## 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/) · [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 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 [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/honglei-zhuang/year/2024/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/honglei-zhuang/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qin-2024-large-language-models-are-effective/)** *(2024 · 300 citations)* The paper addresses why off-the-shelf LLMs have struggled to rank documents for a query as well as fine-tuned rankers. 2. **[ExT5: Towards Extreme Multi-Task Scaling for Transfer Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aribandi-2021-ext5-towards-extreme-multi-task/)** *(2021 · 114 citations)* Multi-task learning helps transfer in NLP, but no one had systematically tested what happens when the number of supervised tasks used during pre-training is pushed very high. ## All works 7 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. **[Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qin-2024-large-language-models-are-effective/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Zhen Qin, Rolf Jagerman, Kai Hui, et al.*2024 · 300 citations* 2. [**ExT5: Towards Extreme Multi-Task Scaling for Transfer Learning arXiv:2111.10952**Vamsi Aribandi, Yi Tay, Tal Schuster, et al.*2021 · 114 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aribandi-2021-ext5-towards-extreme-multi-task/) 3. **[Are Neural Rankers still Outperformed by Gradient Boosted Decision Trees ↗](https://openalex.org/W3129868498) International Conference on Learning Representations · no summary yet**Zhen Qin et al.*2021 · 56 citations* 4. **[Debiasing Crowdsourced Batches ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2783258.2783316) ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) · no summary yet**Honglei Zhuang et al.*2015 · 23 citations* 5. **[ED2LM: Encoder-Decoder to Language Model for Faster Document Re-ranking Inference ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-acl.295/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022 · no summary yet**Kai Hui et al.*2022 · 12 citations* 6. **[Born Again Neural Rankers. ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.15285) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Zhen Qin et al.*2021 · 4 citations* 7. **[SAE ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2487575.2487720) ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) · no summary yet**Yang Yang et al.*2013* ## Co-authors here 12 of 18 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Kai Hui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-hui/) ×2 - [Dara Bahri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dara-bahri/) - [Donald Metzler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/donald-metzler/) - [Huaixiu Steven Zheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huaixiu-steven-zheng/) - [Jai Gupta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jai-gupta/) - [Jialu Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jialu-liu/) - [Jiaming Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaming-shen/) - [Jianmo Ni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianmo-ni/) - [Jinfeng Rao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jinfeng-rao/) - [Junru Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junru-wu/) - [Michael Bendersky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-bendersky/) - [Sanket Vaibhav Mehta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanket-vaibhav-mehta/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) ×2 - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2024/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2022 - International Conference on Learning Representations ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 278 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [57 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/honglei-zhuang/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026