--- title: "Jialu Liu · Central South University — author profile and papers" description: "Jialu Liu, Central South University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 16 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jialu-liu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jialu-liu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jialu Liu # Jialu Liu Jialu Liu has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Tianqi Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianqi-liu/), [Donald Metzler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/donald-metzler/), [Jiaming Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaming-shen/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101681241) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8962-309X) · [**h-index 16**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101681241) · [42 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101681241) · [2,075 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101681241&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jialu-liu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 237 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jialu-liu/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3751](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/38/#star-3751) 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=Jialu+Liu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jialu+Liu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jialu+Liu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jialu+Liu) ## Affiliations [🎓**Central South University** Changsha · China 2023–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/central-south-university/) · [🏛️**Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2024–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🔬**Institute of Automation** Beijing · China 2024–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institute-of-automation/) · [🎓**University of Chinese Academy of Sciences** Beijing · China 2024–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-chinese-academy-of-sciences/) · [🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 2010–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) · [🔬**State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials** Hangzhou 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/02dmmay61) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2016–2024 · 18 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2013–2016 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**Tianjin University** Tianjin · China 2011–2012 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tianjin-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 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 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 · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper 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/) · [**2023** 1 paper Statistical Rejection Sampling Improves Preference Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2023-statistical-rejection-sampling-improves-preference/) ## 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 · 297 citations)* The paper addresses why off-the-shelf LLMs have struggled to rank documents for a query as well as fine-tuned rankers. 2. **[Statistical Rejection Sampling Improves Preference Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2023-statistical-rejection-sampling-improves-preference/)** *(2023 · 101 citations)* The paper addresses a statistical gap in offline alignment methods. DPO and SLiC learn from preference pairs, but those pairs come from human-annotated data or the SFT policy, not from the optimal policy being estimated. As a result, their fitting is not a proper maximum-likelihood estimate. The authors propose… ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Tianqi Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianqi-liu/) ×2 - [Donald Metzler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/donald-metzler/) - [Jiaming Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaming-shen/) - [Kai Hui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-hui/) - [Michael Bendersky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-bendersky/) - [Misha Khalman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/misha-khalman/) - [Mohammad Saleh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-saleh/) - [Peter J. Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-j-liu/) - [Rishabh Joshi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rishabh-joshi/) - [Yao Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-zhao/) - [Zhen Qin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-qin/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 237 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [13 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jialu-liu/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026