--- title: "Xian-Ling Mao — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Xian-Ling Mao, Beijing Institute of Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2022), h-index 30 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xian-ling-mao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xian-ling-mao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xian-Ling Mao # Xian-Ling Mao Xian-Ling Mao has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2022, 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 [Furu Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/furu-wei/), [Heyan Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heyan-huang/), [Li Dong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/li-dong/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2022 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5017626590) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6795-2311) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130837859) · [**h-index 30**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5017626590) · [223 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5017626590) · [3,343 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5017626590&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xian-ling-mao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 262 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xian-ling-mao/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3756](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/38/#star-3756) 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=Xian-Ling+Mao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xian-Ling+Mao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xian-Ling+Mao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xian-Ling+Mao) ## Affiliations [🎓**Beijing Institute of Technology** Beijing · China 2014–2026 · 176 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/beijing-institute-of-technology/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2020–2022 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**Peking University** Beijing · China 2010–2012 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/peking-university/) · [🎓**Huazhong University of Science and Technology** Wuhan · China 2020–2021 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/huazhong-university-of-science-and-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](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/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2022** 1 paper Xian-Ling Mao's papers of 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chi-2022-xlm-e-cross-lingual-language/) · [**2020** 1 paper Xian-Ling Mao's papers of 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chi-2020-infoxlm-information-theoretic-framework-cross/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[InfoXLM: An Information-Theoretic Framework for Cross-Lingual Language Model Pre-Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chi-2020-infoxlm-information-theoretic-framework-cross/)** *(2020 · 271 citations)* The paper addresses why multilingual encoders transfer across languages and how to strengthen that ability. 2. **[XLM-E: Cross-lingual Language Model Pre-training via ELECTRA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chi-2022-xlm-e-cross-lingual-language/)** *(2022 · 126 citations)* Cross-lingual encoders such as XLM-R are typically trained with masked language modeling, sometimes extended with parallel-data objectives like TLM, and this demands very large compute budgets. ## All works 5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**InfoXLM: An Information-Theoretic Framework for Cross-Lingual Language Model Pre-Training arXiv:2007.07834**Zewen Chi, Li Dong, Furu Wei, et al.*2020 · 271 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chi-2020-infoxlm-information-theoretic-framework-cross/) 2. **[XLM-E: Cross-lingual Language Model Pre-training via ELECTRA](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chi-2022-xlm-e-cross-lingual-language/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Zewen Chi, Shaohan Huang, Li Dong, et al.*2022 · 126 citations* 3. **[MTAVG-Bench: A Diagnostic Benchmark for Multi-Talker Dialogue-Centric Audio-Video Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.913/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Yanghao Zhou et al.*2026 · 2 citations* 4. **[EXCEEDS: Extracting Complex Events via Nugget-based Grid Modeling in Scientific Domain ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.271/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Yi-Fan Lu et al.*2026* 5. **[Your Reasoning Model Knows What Counts: Self-Guided Chain-of-Thought Pruning for Efficient Reasoning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.25/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Zi-Ao Ma et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Furu Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/furu-wei/) ×2 - [Heyan Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/heyan-huang/) ×2 - [Li Dong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/li-dong/) ×2 - [Saksham Singhal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/saksham-singhal/) ×2 - [Xia Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xia-song/) ×2 - [Zewen Chi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zewen-chi/) ×2 - [Bo Zheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bo-zheng/) - [Ming Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ming-zhou/) - [Nan Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nan-yang/) - [Payal Bajaj](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/payal-bajaj/) - [Shaohan Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaohan-huang/) - [Shuming Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuming-ma/) ## 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/) ×4: [ACL 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2022/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 262 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [19 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xian-ling-mao/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026