--- title: "Wei Cai — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Wei Cai, Southern Methodist University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-cai/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-cai/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Wei Cai # Wei Cai Wei Cai has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Chen Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-tang/), [Jie Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-liu/), [Ye Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ye-chen/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5100559112) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5100559112) · [3 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100559112) · [4 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5100559112&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-cai/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 13 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-cai/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9482](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/95/#star-9482) 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=Wei+Cai) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Wei+Cai) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Wei+Cai) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Wei+Cai) ## Affiliations [🎓**Southern Methodist University** Dallas · United States *current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/southern-methodist-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 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-cai/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-cai/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[TigerBot: An Open Multilingual Multitask LLM](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2023-tigerbot-open-multilingual-multitask/)** *(2023 · 15 citations)* Open-source LLMs such as Llama-2 are strong in English but cover Chinese and other East Asian languages poorly, and building competitive models is usually expensive. 2. **[HiEdit: Lifelong Model Editing with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-hiedit-lifelong-model-editing-hierarchical/)** *(2026)* Lifelong model editing (LME) repeatedly corrects outdated or wrong facts in a deployed LLM while trying not to damage unrelated or earlier-edited knowledge. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chen Tang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-tang/) - [Jie Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jie-liu/) - [Ye Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ye-chen/) ## 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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 13 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-cai/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026