--- title: "Liliang Ren · Hohai University — author profile and papers" description: "Liliang Ren, Hohai University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2024), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liliang-ren/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liliang-ren/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Liliang Ren # Liliang Ren Liliang Ren has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/); often with [Chen Liang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-liang/), [Kai Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-yu/), [Kaige Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaige-xie/). 2 papers in our library · 2018–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5036204220) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3329-5787) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5036204220) · [6 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5036204220) · [8 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5036204220&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liliang-ren/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 107 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liliang-ren/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5297](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/53/#star-5297) 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=Liliang+Ren) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Liliang+Ren) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Liliang+Ren) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Liliang+Ren) ## Affiliations [🎓**Hohai University** Nanjing · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hohai-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](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/liliang-ren/year/2024/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liliang-ren/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Towards Universal Dialogue State Tracking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ren-2018-universal-dialogue-state-tracking/)** *(2018 · 191 citations)* The paper tackles dialogue state tracking (DST), which means estimating a user's goal as slot-value pairs at each turn of a task-oriented spoken dialogue. 2. **[Samba: Simple Hybrid State Space Models for Efficient Unlimited Context Language Modeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ren-2024-samba-simple-hybrid-state-space/)** *(2024 · 59 citations)* Language models struggle with very long inputs. Full attention scales quadratically with sequence length, while state space models (SSMs) are linear but recall specific details poorly. The authors propose Samba, a hybrid that stacks Mamba layers, SwiGLU MLPs and Sliding Window Attention (SWA, window 2048) in… ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chen Liang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-liang/) - [Kai Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-yu/) - [Kaige Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaige-xie/) - [Lu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lu-chen/) - [Weizhu Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weizhu-chen/) - [Yang Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yang-liu/) - [Yelong Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yelong-shen/) ## 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/): [EMNLP 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2018/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 107 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [15 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liliang-ren/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026