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# Raphael Tang

Raphael Tang has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2020, most of them on [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Jimmy Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jimmy-lin/).

2 papers in our library · 2019–2020

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101066425) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0007-2873-892X) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130823738) · [**h-index 18**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101066425) · [67 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101066425) · [1,934 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101066425&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raphael-tang/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 157 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raphael-tang/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3393](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/34/#star-3393)

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=Raphael+Tang) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Raphael+Tang) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Raphael+Tang) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Raphael+Tang)

## Affiliations

[🎓**University College London** London · United Kingdom 2025–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-college-london/) · [🎓**University of Waterloo** Waterloo · Canada 2018–2024 · 24 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/) · [🏢**Comcast** Philadelphia · United States 2019–2025 · 17 papers](https://ror.org/00sgxyw28) · [🔬**Vector Institute** Toronto · Canada 2020–2021 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/vector-institute/)

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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2020** 1 paper Raphael Tang's papers of 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xin-2020-deebert-dynamic-early-exiting-accelerating/)

### 2010s

[**2019** 1 paper Raphael Tang's papers of 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2019-explicit-pairwise-word-interaction-modeling/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[DeeBERT: Dynamic Early Exiting for Accelerating BERT Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xin-2020-deebert-dynamic-early-exiting-accelerating/)** *(2020 · 483 citations)* Large pre-trained transformers such as BERT are accurate but slow at inference, which makes real-time and on-device use difficult.
2. **[Explicit Pairwise Word Interaction Modeling Improves Pretrained Transformers for English Semantic Similarity Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2019-explicit-pairwise-word-interaction-modeling/)** *(2019 · 6 citations)* Pretrained transformers such as BERT handle word-to-word relations between two sentences only implicitly, through unconstrained self-attention.

## 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. **[DeeBERT: Dynamic Early Exiting for Accelerating BERT Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xin-2020-deebert-dynamic-early-exiting-accelerating/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Ji Xin, Raphael Tang, Jaejun Lee, et al.*2020 · 483 citations*
2. [**Explicit Pairwise Word Interaction Modeling Improves Pretrained Transformers for English Semantic Similarity Tasks arXiv:1911.02847**Yinan Zhang, Raphael Tang, Jimmy Lin*2019 · 6 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2019-explicit-pairwise-word-interaction-modeling/)
3. **[The Role of Mixed-Language Documents for Multilingual Large Language Model Pretraining ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1706/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Jiandong Shao et al.*2026 · 1 citation*

## Co-authors here

1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Jimmy Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jimmy-lin/) ×2

## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2020/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 157 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raphael-tang/cited-by/).

Updated 24 October 2026
