--- title: "Nan Ding — author profile and papers · Vision & language" description: "Nan Ding, Google: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2025), h-index 15 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nan-ding/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nan-ding/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Nan Ding # Nan Ding Nan Ding has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2025, most of them on [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Fei Sha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-sha/), [Jin Peng Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jin-peng-zhou/), [Kilian Q. Weinberger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kilian-q-weinberger/). 2 papers in our library · 2018–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5023501811) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4876-6553) · [**h-index 15**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5023501811) · [29 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023501811) · [3,173 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023501811&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nan-ding/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 594 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nan-ding/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1305](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/14/#star-1305) 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=Nan+Ding) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Nan+Ding) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Nan+Ding) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Nan+Ding) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2014–2023 · 16 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**The University of Texas at Austin** Austin · United States 2018 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/) · [🎓**Tsinghua University** Beijing · China 2010 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tsinghua-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions 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).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [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/) · [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.[Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nan-ding/year/2025/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nan-ding/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Conceptual Captions: A Cleaned, Hypernymed, Image Alt-text Dataset For Automatic Image Captioning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2018-conceptual-captions-cleaned-hypernymed-image/)** *(2018 · 2,348 citations)* The paper addresses the shortage of large and varied training data for automatic image captioning. Earlier resources such as MS-COCO are curated but small for deep models. The authors introduce Conceptual Captions, a set of about 3.3M image–description pairs harvested from the Alt-text attribute of web images. They… 2. **[Graders Should Cheat: Privileged Information Enables Expert-Level Automated Evaluations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2025-graders-should-cheat-privileged-information/)** *(2025 · 3 citations)* Using a language model to grade other models is cheap, but it breaks down on frontier tasks such as Olympiad math or graduate-level physics. ## All works 3 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. **[Conceptual Captions: A Cleaned, Hypernymed, Image Alt-text Dataset For Automatic Image Captioning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2018-conceptual-captions-cleaned-hypernymed-image/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Piyush Sharma, Nan Ding, Sebastian Goodman, et al.*2018 · 2,348 citations* 2. **[Do Transformer Modifications Transfer Across Implementations and Applications? ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.465/) Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Sharan Narang et al.*2021 · 123 citations* 3. **[Graders Should Cheat: Privileged Information Enables Expert-Level Automated Evaluations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhou-2025-graders-should-cheat-privileged-information/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Jin Peng Zhou, Séb Arnold, Nan Ding, et al.*2025 · 3 citations* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Fei Sha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fei-sha/) - [Jin Peng Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jin-peng-zhou/) - [Kilian Q. Weinberger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kilian-q-weinberger/) - [Nan Hua](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nan-hua/) - [Piyush Sharma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/piyush-sharma/) - [Radu Soricut](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/radu-soricut/) - [Sebastian Goodman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-goodman/) ## 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 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2018/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 594 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [95 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nan-ding/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026