--- title: "Tianqi Liu — author profile and papers" description: "Tianqi Liu, Beijing Jiaotong University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianqi-liu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianqi-liu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tianqi Liu # Tianqi Liu Tianqi Liu has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Donald Metzler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/donald-metzler/), [Jiaming Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaming-shen/), [Kai Hui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-hui/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100618135) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8617-5236) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100618135) · [70 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100618135) · [601 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100618135&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianqi-liu/#papers) · [🔗 383 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianqi-liu/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3147](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/32/#star-3147) 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=Tianqi+Liu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tianqi+Liu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tianqi+Liu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tianqi+Liu) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Florida** Gainesville · United States 2021–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-florida/) · [🎓**Beijing Jiaotong University** Beijing · China 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-jiaotong-university/) · [🎓**University of Florida Health** Gainesville · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/04tk2gy88) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2019–2024 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Huazhong University of Science and Technology** Wuhan · China 2023–2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**Southeast University** Nanjing · China 2020–2022 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/southeast-university-cn/) · [🎓**Chongqing University of Technology** Chongqing · China 2024–2025 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/04vgbd477) · [🎓**Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology** Nanjing · China 2024 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/02y0rxk19) · [🎓**Nanjing University of Science and Technology** Nanjing · China 2020–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanjing-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**China Agricultural University** Beijing · China 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/04v3ywz14) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 20 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qin-2024-large-language-models-are-effective/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2023-slic-hf-sequence-likelihood-calibration/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Large Language Models are Effective Text Rankers with Pairwise Ranking Prompting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qin-2024-large-language-models-are-effective/)** *(2024 · 296 citations)* The paper addresses why off-the-shelf LLMs have struggled to rank documents for a query as well as fine-tuned rankers. 2. **[SLiC-HF: Sequence Likelihood Calibration with Human Feedback](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2023-slic-hf-sequence-likelihood-calibration/)** *(2023 · 135 citations)* The paper looks for a lighter alternative to RLHF with PPO for aligning language models with human preferences. ## Also in our library 2 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Donald Metzler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/donald-metzler/) - [Jiaming Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiaming-shen/) - [Kai Hui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kai-hui/) - [Michael Bendersky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-bendersky/) - [Mohammad Saleh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-saleh/) - [Peter J. Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-j-liu/) - [Yao Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yao-zhao/) - [Zhen Qin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhen-qin/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 383 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [14 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianqi-liu/cited-by/).