--- title: "Ning Zhang — author profile and papers · Vision & language" description: "Ning Zhang, Washington University in St. Louis: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ning-zhang/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ning-zhang/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ning Zhang # Ning Zhang Ning Zhang has 4 papers in our library, in 2018–2026, most of them on [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/), [Named entity recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Hao Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-li/), [Chaowei Xiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaowei-xiao/), [Heng Ji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heng-ji/). 4 papers in our library · 2018–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5119181849) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5119181849) · [1 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5119181849) · [9 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5119181849&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ning-zhang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 79 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ning-zhang/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4429](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/45/#star-4429) 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=Ning+Zhang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ning+Zhang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ning+Zhang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ning+Zhang) ## Affiliations [🎓**Washington University in St. Louis** St Louis · United States 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/washington-university-in-st-louis/) 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).[Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 4 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 · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Hardware and Architecture · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/hardware-and-architecture/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Vision & language · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Named entity recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/named-entity-recognition/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ning-zhang/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ning-zhang/year/2025/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ning-zhang/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Visual Attention Model for Name Tagging in Multimodal Social Media](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2018-visual-attention-model-name-tagging/)** *(2018 · 361 citations)* The paper addresses name tagging in social media posts that pair an image with a short, noisy caption. In such posts the text alone is often ambiguous: "Modern Baseball" could be a band or a reference to the sport. The authors built two new multimodal benchmarks, one from Twitter and one from crowdsourced Snapchat… 2. **[PIGuard: Prompt Injection Guardrail via Mitigating Overdefense for Free](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2025-piguard-prompt-injection-guardrail-mitigating/)** *(2025 · 16 citations)* Lightweight prompt guard classifiers screen LLM inputs for prompt injection, but they often learn a shortcut. 3. **[Rethinking Jailbreak Detection of Large Vision Language Models with Representational Contrastive Scoring](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hua-2026-rethinking-jailbreak-detection-large-vision/)** *(2026 · 10 citations)* Multimodal jailbreak attacks on Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) call for detectors that work on attack types never seen in training and that add little runtime cost. 4. **[Protecting Language Models Against Unauthorized Distillation through Trace Rewriting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2026-protecting-language-models-against-unauthorized/)** *(2026)* The paper addresses unauthorized knowledge distillation, in which a third party trains a cheaper student model on reasoning traces collected through a proprietary LLM's API. ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hao Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hao-li/) ×2 - [Chaowei Xiao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chaowei-xiao/) - [Heng Ji](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heng-ji/) - [Leonardo Neves](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leonardo-neves/) - [Vitor Carvalho](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vitor-carvalho/) - [Xiaogeng Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaogeng-liu/) - [Zhiyuan Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyuan-yu/) ## 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/) ×4: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) ×2, [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/), [ACL 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2018/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 79 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [16 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ning-zhang/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026