--- title: "Sihang Cai · Zhejiang University — author profile and papers" description: "Sihang Cai, Zhejiang University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sihang-cai/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sihang-cai/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sihang Cai # Sihang Cai Sihang Cai has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/), [Information retrieval & search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/); often with [Chuxin Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuxin-wang/), [Zequn Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zequn-xie/), [Yixuan Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yixuan-tang/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5013362450) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0007-8693-7142) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130822091) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5013362450) · [21 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5013362450) · [28 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5013362450&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sihang-cai/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 9 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sihang-cai/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8595](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/86/#star-8595) 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=Sihang+Cai) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sihang+Cai) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sihang+Cai) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sihang+Cai) ## Affiliations [🎓**Zhejiang University** Hangzhou · China 2024–2026 · 16 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/zhejiang-university/) 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 2 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 · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Information retrieval & search · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/information-retrieval/) · [Text generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sihang-cai/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sihang-cai/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Chat-Driven Text Generation and Interaction for Person Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2025-chat-driven-text-generation-interaction/)** *(2025 · 28 citations)* Text-based person search (TBPS) retrieves pedestrian images from a gallery using a natural-language description. 2. **[Iterative Self-Correction for Text-Driven Person Re-Identification with Large Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/luo-2026-iterative-self-correction-text-driven/)** *(2026)* The paper addresses person re-identification (ReID), where systems that use vision-language models usually turn a query image into a description once and then retrieve with it. ## 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. **[Chat-Driven Text Generation and Interaction for Person Retrieval](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xie-2025-chat-driven-text-generation-interaction/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Zequn Xie, Chuxin Wang, Yeqiang Wang, et al.*2025 · 28 citations* 2. **[Iterative Self-Correction for Text-Driven Person Re-Identification with Large Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/luo-2026-iterative-self-correction-text-driven/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Guijin Luo, Zequn Xie, Sihang Cai, et al.*2026* 3. **[Generative-to-Discriminative Test-Time Adaptation via Manifold-Aware Diffusion and Bayesian Distillation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.findings-acl.350/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 · no summary yet**Boyun Zhang et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chuxin Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chuxin-wang/) ×2 - [Zequn Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zequn-xie/) ×2 - [Yixuan Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yixuan-tang/) - [Zhou Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhou-zhao/) ## 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/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 9 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sihang-cai/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026