--- title: "Kefan Xiao — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Kefan Xiao: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kefan-xiao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kefan-xiao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kefan Xiao # Kefan Xiao Kefan Xiao has 2 papers in our library, in 2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Code & programming languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/); often with [Charles Sutton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charles-sutton/), [Pengcheng Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pengcheng-yin/), [Abhishek Rao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abhishek-rao/). 2 papers in our library · 2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5018290574) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5018290574) · [19 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5018290574) · [1,549 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5018290574&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kefan-xiao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 4,818 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kefan-xiao/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/71/#star-7023) 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=Kefan+Xiao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kefan+Xiao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kefan+Xiao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kefan+Xiao) ## Affiliations [🎓**Auburn University** Auburn · United States 2016–2019 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/auburn-university/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2022–2023 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) 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 · 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/) · [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 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Code & programming languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kefan-xiao/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Universal Self-Consistency for Large Language Model Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2023-universal-self-consistency-large-language/)** *(2023 · 92 citations)* Standard self-consistency samples several chain-of-thought solutions and takes a majority vote over the final answers. 2. **[Natural Language to Code Generation in Interactive Data Science Notebooks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yin-2023-natural-language-code-generation-interactive/)** *(2023 · 63 citations)* Data scientists often work in Jupyter-style notebooks, where each new request to an AI coding assistant depends on earlier cells, their execution state, and previous requests. ## 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. **[Efficiently Scaling Transformer Inference ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.05102) arXiv:2211.05102 · no summary yet**Reiner Pope et al.*2022 · 368 citations* 2. [**Universal Self-Consistency for Large Language Model Generation arXiv:2311.17311**Xinyun Chen, Renat Aksitov, Uri Alon, et al.*2023 · 92 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2023-universal-self-consistency-large-language/) 3. **[Natural Language to Code Generation in Interactive Data Science Notebooks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yin-2023-natural-language-code-generation-interactive/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Pengcheng Yin, Wen-Ding Li, Kefan Xiao, et al.*2023 · 63 citations* 4. **[Measuring The Impact Of Programming Language Distribution ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.01973) arXiv:2302.01973 · no summary yet**Gabriel Orlanski et al.*2023 · 22 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Charles Sutton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charles-sutton/) ×2 - [Pengcheng Yin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pengcheng-yin/) ×2 - [Abhishek Rao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abhishek-rao/) - [Denny Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/denny-zhou/) - [Henryk Michalewski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/henryk-michalewski/) - [Jie Ren](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-ren/) - [Joshua Howland](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joshua-howland/) - [Kensen Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kensen-shi/) - [Oleksandr Polozov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oleksandr-polozov/) - [Paige Bailey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paige-bailey/) - [Uri Alon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/uri-alon/) - [Wen-Ding Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wen-ding-li/) ## 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/): [ACL 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 4,818 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1,061 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kefan-xiao/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026