--- title: "Sang Michael Xie — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Sang Michael Xie, Stanford University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2024), h-index 17 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sang-michael-xie/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sang-michael-xie/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sang Michael Xie # Sang Michael Xie Sang Michael Xie has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Aditi Raghunathan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aditi-raghunathan/), [Alon Albalak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alon-albalak/), [Bairu Hou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bairu-hou/). 2 papers in our library · 2021–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5069097726) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0820-2753) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59751810) · [**h-index 17**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5069097726) · [36 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5069097726) · [5,569 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5069097726&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sang-michael-xie/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,239 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sang-michael-xie/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3946](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/40/#star-3946) 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=Sang+Michael+Xie) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sang+Michael+Xie) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sang+Michael+Xie) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sang+Michael+Xie) ## Affiliations [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2013–2026 · 17 papersEducation 2013–2017Education since 2018*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-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. ## 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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper A Survey on Data Selection for Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/albalak-2024-survey-data-selection-language-models/) · [**2021** 1 paper An Explanation of In-context Learning as Implicit Bayesian Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2021-explanation-context-learning-implicit-bayesian/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[An Explanation of In-context Learning as Implicit Bayesian Inference](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2021-explanation-context-learning-implicit-bayesian/)** *(2021 · 269 citations)* The paper asks why large LMs such as GPT-3 can pick up a task from input-output examples in a prompt, even though they were never trained to learn from examples. 2. **[A Survey on Data Selection for Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/albalak-2024-survey-data-selection-language-models/)** *(2024 · 85 citations)* Large language models depend on huge web-scale corpora, but using every available document is often wasteful or harmful because text quality varies widely. ## 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. [**An Explanation of In-context Learning as Implicit Bayesian Inference**Sang Michael Xie, Aditi Raghunathan, Percy Liang, et al.*arXiv:2111.02080 · 269 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2021-explanation-context-learning-implicit-bayesian/) 2. [**A Survey on Data Selection for Language Models**Alon Albalak, Yanai Elazar, Sang Michael Xie, et al.*arXiv:2402.16827 · 85 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/albalak-2024-survey-data-selection-language-models/) 3. **[Reward Design with Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.00001) · original ↗ · no summary yet · arXiv:2303.00001**Minae Kwon et al.*2023 · 67 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aditi Raghunathan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aditi-raghunathan/) - [Alon Albalak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alon-albalak/) - [Bairu Hou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bairu-hou/) - [Colin Raffel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/colin-raffel/) - [Liangming Pan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liangming-pan/) - [Nathan Lambert](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathan-lambert/) - [Niklas Muennighoff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/niklas-muennighoff/) - [Percy Liang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/percy-liang/) - [Shayne Longpre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shayne-longpre/) - [Shiyu Chang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shiyu-chang/) - [Tengyu Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tengyu-ma/) - [Xinyi Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinyi-wang/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,239 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [142 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sang-michael-xie/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026