--- title: "Tianjian Li — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Tianjian Li, University of Notre Dame: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianjian-li/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianjian-li/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tianjian Li # Tianjian Li Tianjian Li has 2 papers in our library, in 2025, most of them on [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Code & programming languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/); often with [Daniel Khashabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-khashabi/), [David R. Mortensen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-r-mortensen/), [David Yarowsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-yarowsky/). 2 papers in our library · 2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5109643814) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5109643814) · [14 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109643814) · [13 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5109643814&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianjian-li/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 20 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianjian-li/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10032](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/101/#star-10032) 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=Tianjian+Li) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tianjian+Li) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tianjian+Li) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tianjian+Li) ## Affiliations [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2022–2025 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**University of Notre Dame** Notre Dame · United States 2024–2025 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-notre-dame/) 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 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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Code & programming languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianjian-li/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Benchmarking Language Model Creativity: A Case Study on Code Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lu-2025-benchmarking-language-model-creativity-case/)** *(2025 · 17 citations)* Most studies of LLM creativity focus on open-ended tasks such as story writing. This leaves open how creative models are when they solve problems. Two things have been missing: a way to push models beyond repetitive outputs, and a grounded, quantitative metric. Drawing on cognitive science, the authors treat… 2. **[The Translation Barrier Hypothesis: Multilingual Generation with Large Language Models Suffers from Implicit Translation Failure](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bafna-2025-translation-barrier-hypothesis-multilingual-generation/)** *(2025 · 7 citations)* LLMs often generate poorly in mid- and low-resource languages, but the reasons are unclear. The authors argue that generation inside the model runs as an implicit two-stage process. Middle layers first work out the answer concept in a way largely independent of the target language. Final layers then render that… ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Daniel Khashabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-khashabi/) ×2 - [David R. Mortensen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-r-mortensen/) - [David Yarowsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-yarowsky/) - [Dongwei Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongwei-jiang/) - [Hale Sirin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hale-sirin/) - [Kenton Murray](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenton-murray/) - [Meng Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meng-jiang/) - [Niyati Bafna](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/niyati-bafna/) - [Sanjeev Khudanpur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanjeev-khudanpur/) - [Yining Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yining-lu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (IJCNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/): [IJCNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ijcnlp/2025/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 20 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [7 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianjian-li/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026