--- title: "Shiyan Liu — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Shiyan Liu, Henan University of Urban Construction: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shiyan-liu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shiyan-liu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Shiyan Liu # Shiyan Liu Shiyan Liu 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/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5055336898) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6889-101X) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5055336898) · [39 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5055336898) · [477 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5055336898&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shiyan-liu/#papers) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12219](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/123/#star-12219) 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=Shiyan+Liu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shiyan+Liu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shiyan+Liu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shiyan+Liu) ## Affiliations [🎓**Henan University of Urban Construction** Pingdingshan · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/01x1skr92) · [🎓**Huazhong University of Science and Technology** Wuhan · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**Shaoxing University** Shaoxing · China 2013–2025 · 16 papers](https://ror.org/0435tej63) · [🎓**Shenzhen University** Shenzhen · China 2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shenzhen-university/) · [🎓**Beihang University** Beijing · China 2020–2024 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beihang-university/) · [🏢**State Grid Corporation of China** Beijing · China 2022 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/state-grid-corporation-of-china/) · [🎓**Shizuoka University** Shizuoka · Japan 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/01w6wtk13) · [🎓**Hebei University** Baoding · China 2022–2023 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/01p884a79) · [🏢**State Grid Hebei Electric Power Company** Shijiazhuang 2021 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/02v4yxp84) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 9 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 6 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/) · [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/) 🧭 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/shiyan-liu/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Reflection in the Dark: Exposing and Escaping the Black Box in Reflective Prompt Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-reflection-dark-exposing-escaping-black/)** *(2026)* Reflective automatic prompt optimization (APO) methods such as GEPA improve prompts by having an LLM reflect on failed examples. 2. **[Test-Time Training for Zero-Resource Dense Retrieval Reranking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-test-time-training-zero-resource/)** *(2026)* The paper addresses reranking for dense retrieval when the target domain has no relevance labels. Cross-encoders need supervised training and add hundreds of milliseconds per query. BM25 is often unavailable in vector-database-only deployments. The authors propose DART (Dense Adaptive Reranking at Test-time), a… ## 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/) - [Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/knowfm/): [Workshop on Towards Knowledgeable Foundation Models 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/knowfm/2026/) Updated 1 November 2026