--- title: "Tianyi Niu — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Tianyi Niu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyi-niu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyi-niu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tianyi Niu # Tianyi Niu Tianyi Niu has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Elias Stengel-Eskin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elias-stengel-eskin/), [Mohit Bansal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohit-bansal/), [Genta Indra Winata](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/genta-indra-winata/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5118729700) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0138-1419) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5118729700) · [8 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5118729700) · [8 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5118729700&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyi-niu/#papers) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #13157](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/132/#star-13157) 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=Tianyi+Niu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tianyi+Niu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tianyi+Niu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tianyi+Niu) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill** Chapel Hill · United States 2025–2026 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/) 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 6 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 · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](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** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianyi-niu/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[RotBench: Evaluating Multi-modal Large Language Models on Identifying Image Rotation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/niu-2026-rotbench-evaluating-multi-modal-large/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The paper asks whether multimodal LLMs can tell how far an image has been turned counter-clockwise: 0°, 90°, 180°, or 270°. 2. **[Routing with Generated Data: Annotation-Free LLM Skill Estimation and Expert Selection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/niu-2026-routing-generated-data-annotation-free/)** *(2026)* LLM routers choose which model in a pool should handle a given query. Most existing routers learn from human-labelled, in-domain data, which is often unavailable when real user traffic is varied and unpredictable. The authors propose Routing with Generated Data (RGD). In this setting, a generator LLM writes queries… ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Elias Stengel-Eskin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elias-stengel-eskin/) ×2 - [Mohit Bansal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohit-bansal/) ×2 - [Genta Indra Winata](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/genta-indra-winata/) - [Justin Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/justin-chen/) - [Shi-Xiong Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shi-xiong-zhang/) - [Yue Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yue-zhang/) ## 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/) Updated 1 November 2026