--- title: "Xiutian Zhao — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Xiutian Zhao, University of Edinburgh: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiutian-zhao/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiutian-zhao/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xiutian Zhao # Xiutian Zhao Xiutian Zhao 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/), [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/); often with [Björn Wolfgang Schuller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bjorn-wolfgang-schuller/), [Ivan Titov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivan-titov/), [Rochelle Choenni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rochelle-choenni/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5102690971) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5102690971) · [8 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102690971) · [26 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102690971&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiutian-zhao/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 3 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiutian-zhao/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/111/#star-11019) 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=Xiutian+Zhao) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xiutian+Zhao) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xiutian+Zhao) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xiutian+Zhao) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2024–2026 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) 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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) 🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Interpretability · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [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/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiutian-zhao/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Finding Culture-Sensitive Neurons in Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-finding-culture-sensitive-neurons-vision/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Vision-language models (VLMs) often answer worse on culturally specific images and questions, but it is unclear where culture-related processing happens inside them. 2. **[Discovering and Causally Validating Emotion-Sensitive Neurons in Large Audio-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2026-discovering-causally-validating-emotion-sensitive/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* The paper asks whether large audio-language models (LALMs) store emotion information in small, identifiable groups of neurons, or whether it is spread diffusely across the network. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Björn Wolfgang Schuller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bjorn-wolfgang-schuller/) - [Ivan Titov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivan-titov/) - [Rochelle Choenni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rochelle-choenni/) - [Rohit Saxena](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rohit-saxena/) ## 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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3 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/xiutian-zhao/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026