--- title: "Mingkai Tian — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Mingkai Tian, Kuaishou: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingkai-tian/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingkai-tian/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mingkai Tian # Mingkai Tian Mingkai Tian has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Anton van den Hengel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anton-van-den-hengel/), [Yi Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-wang/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101335338) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8832-3413) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101335338) · [7 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101335338) · [29 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101335338&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingkai-tian/#papers) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12147](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/122/#star-12147) 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+Tian) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mingkai+Tian) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mingkai+Tian) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mingkai+Tian) ## Affiliations [🏢**Kuaishou** Beijing · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/kuaishou/) 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingkai-tian/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[From Short Video to Clickable Search: RLVR-Enabled Listwise Query Suggestion with Retrieval-Augmented Context](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tian-2026-short-video-clickable-search-rlvr/)** *(2026)* The paper targets the clickable search suggestions shown beneath short videos on Kuaishou. The earlier system, GREAT, produced one query per pass from title and OCR and was scored by edit distance against a single reference. That setup struggles to capture the many intents a video can trigger, and it gives no credit… 2. **[The Devil is in the Distributions: Explicit Modeling of Scene Content is Key in Zero-Shot Video Captioning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tian-2026-devil-is-distributions-explicit-modeling/)** *(2026)* Zero-shot video captioning means describing videos without training on paired video-text data. Current text-only approaches retrieve textual prompts through CLIP at a single level of detail, such as noun phrases or full sentences. As a result, their captions often capture one salient element and miss interactions or… ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Anton van den Hengel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anton-van-den-hengel/) - [Yi Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yi-wang/) ## 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 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) Updated 1 November 2026