--- title: "Tianyang Xu · Jiangnan University — author profile and papers" description: "Tianyang Xu, Jiangnan University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 35 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyang-xu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyang-xu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tianyang Xu # Tianyang Xu Tianyang Xu has 3 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/), [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/); often with [Ryan Cotterell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-cotterell/), [Alex Warstadt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-warstadt/), [Dan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-zhang/). 3 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5049469328) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9015-3128) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92561576) · [**h-index 35**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5049469328) · [284 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5049469328) · [5,563 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5049469328&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyang-xu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 11 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyang-xu/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9678](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/97/#star-9678) 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=Tianyang+Xu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tianyang+Xu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tianyang+Xu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tianyang+Xu) ## Affiliations [🎓**Jiangnan University** Wuxi · China 2015–2026 · 199 papers*current*](https://ror.org/04mkzax54) · [🎓**University of Surrey** Guildford · United Kingdom 2019–2026 · 26 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-surrey/) · [🎓**Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago** Chicago · United States 2025–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/toyota-technological-institute-at-chicago/) · [🎓**Shandong University** Jinan · China 2022–2025 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shandong-university/) · [🎓**Dalian University of Technology** Dalian · China 2022–2025 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/dalian-university-of-technology/) · [🎓**Huazhong University of Science and Technology** Wuhan · China 2019–2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🎓**Southeast University** Nanjing · China 2023–2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/southeast-university-cn/) · [🎓**Nanjing University** Nanjing · China 2021–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/nanjing-university/) · [🔬**State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials** Jinan 2022–2025 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/01jjraa45) · [🎓**Wuhan University** Wuhan · China 2022–2023 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/wuhan-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 15 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 · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Developmental and Educational Psychology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/developmental-and-educational-psychology/) · [Psychology · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Psycholinguistics & language acquisition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/psycholinguistics/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Psycholinguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/psycholinguistics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyang-xu/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Can Language Models Learn Typologically Implausible Languages?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-can-language-models-learn-typologically/)** *(2026 · 10 citations)* Languages around the world show strong word-order correlations. For example, verb–object languages usually have prepositions, and object–verb languages usually have postpositions. These patterns are often explained by human learning biases, but it is debated whether such biases are specific to language or arise from… 2. **[Probing for Reading Times](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tsipidi-2026-probing-reading-times/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The paper asks whether the hidden states of neural language models hold information about human reading behaviour beyond what the usual single-number predictor, surprisal, provides. 3. **[Verification-Aware Planning for Multi-Agent Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-verification-aware-planning-multi-agent/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Multi-agent LLM pipelines often break not because an agent reasons badly, but because of subtle mismatches: an agent misreads its subtask, returns output in the wrong format, or hands off something downstream agents did not expect. ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Joint Group Feature Selection and Discriminative Filter Learning for Robust Visual Object Tracking ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv.2019.00804) IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · no summary yet**Tianyang Xu et al.*2019 · 222 citations* 2. **[Can Language Models Learn Typologically Implausible Languages?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-can-language-models-learn-typologically/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Tianyang Xu, Tatsuki Kuribayashi, Yohei Oseki, et al.*2026 · 10 citations* 3. **[Probing for Reading Times](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tsipidi-2026-probing-reading-times/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Eleftheria Tsipidi, Samuel Kiegeland, Francesco Ignazio Re, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 4. **[Verification-Aware Planning for Multi-Agent Systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-verification-aware-planning-multi-agent/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Tianyang Xu, Dan Zhang, Kushan Mitra, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ryan Cotterell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-cotterell/) ×2 - [Alex Warstadt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-warstadt/) - [Dan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-zhang/) - [Estevam Hruschka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/estevam-hruschka/) - [Karolina Stanczak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karolina-stanczak/) - [Kushan Mitra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kushan-mitra/) - [Mario Giulianelli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mario-giulianelli/) - [Tatsuki Kuribayashi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tatsuki-kuribayashi/) - [Yohei Oseki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yohei-oseki/) ## 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/) - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2026/) - IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 11 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [3 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyang-xu/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026