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# Xi Chen — papers of 2026 — 6 papers, the most cited first

6 papers · [all years of Xi Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xi-chen/#years)

**[TLSA: LLM-Guided Text-Label Space Alignment with Contrastive Learning for Generalized Category Discovery](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2026-tlsa-llm-guided-text-label/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Wenxi Xu, Chuan Qin, Xi Chen, et al.*2026 · 4 citations*

**[STELLA: A Multimodal LLM for Protein Functional Annotation via Unified Sequence-Structure Encoding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xiao-2026-stella-multimodal-llm-protein-functional/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Hongwang Xiao, Wenjun Lin, Xi Chen, et al.*2026 · 2 citations*

**[BOLT: Benchmarking Open-World Learning for Text Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/qin-2026-bolt-benchmarking-open-world-learning/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Chuan Qin, Xi Chen, Jinpeng Li, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*

**[Sparse Adapter Fusion for Continual Learning in NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zeng-2026-sparse-adapter-fusion-continual-learning/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Min Zeng, Xi Chen, Haiqin Yang, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*

**[What Makes an LLM a Good Optimizer? A Trajectory Analysis of LLM-Guided Evolutionary Search](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-what-makes-llm-good-optimizer/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Xinhao Zhang, Xi Chen, François Portet, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*

**[Progressive Re-ranking for Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation via Curriculum Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/min-2026-progressive-re-ranking-multimodal-retrieval/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Zhu Min, Yanchao Hao, Jian Liu, et al.*2026*