--- title: "Mingkai Deng — author profile and papers · Text generation" description: "Mingkai Deng, Carnegie Mellon University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2022), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingkai-deng/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingkai-deng/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mingkai Deng # Mingkai Deng Mingkai Deng has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2022, most of them on [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/), [Efficient models & compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/); often with [Eric Xing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-xing/), [Zhiting Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiting-hu/), [Cheng-Ping Hsieh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-ping-hsieh/). 2 papers in our library · 2021–2022 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5006031253) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0517-8253) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5006031253) · [6 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5006031253) · [184 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5006031253&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingkai-deng/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 218 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingkai-deng/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3638](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/37/#star-3638) 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=Mingkai+Deng) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mingkai+Deng) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mingkai+Deng) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mingkai+Deng) ## Affiliations [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2022–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**University of California San Diego** San Diego · United States 2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-san-diego/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Efficient models & compression · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) · [Text generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2022** 1 paper RLPrompt: Optimizing Discrete Text Prompts with Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deng-2022-rlprompt-optimizing-discrete-text-prompts/) · [**2021** 1 paper Compression, Transduction, and Creation: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Natural Language Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deng-2021-compression-transduction-creation-unified-framework/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[RLPrompt: Optimizing Discrete Text Prompts with Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deng-2022-rlprompt-optimizing-discrete-text-prompts/)** *(2022 · 328 citations)* The paper addresses the challenge of automatically finding effective discrete text prompts for frozen pre-trained language models. 2. **[Compression, Transduction, and Creation: A Unified Framework for Evaluating Natural Language Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deng-2021-compression-transduction-creation-unified-framework/)** *(2021 · 101 citations)* Automatic evaluation of natural language generation is difficult because tasks pursue different goals, and most existing metrics are built for a single task from ad hoc intuitions. ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Eric Xing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-xing/) ×2 - [Zhiting Hu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiting-hu/) ×2 - [Cheng-Ping Hsieh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-ping-hsieh/) - [Jianyu Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jianyu-wang/) - [Zhengzhong Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengzhong-liu/) ## 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/) ×2: [EMNLP 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2022/), [EMNLP 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2021/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 218 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [21 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingkai-deng/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026