--- title: "Xuan Shen · Northeastern University — author profile and papers" description: "Xuan Shen, Northeastern University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuan-shen/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuan-shen/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Xuan Shen # Xuan Shen Xuan Shen has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Chien Van Nguyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chien-van-nguyen/), [Jian Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-chen/), [Joe Barrow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joe-barrow/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101655525) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8044-0089) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101655525) · [18 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101655525) · [126 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101655525&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuan-shen/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 25 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuan-shen/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9647](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/97/#star-9647) 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=Xuan+Shen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Xuan+Shen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Xuan+Shen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Xuan+Shen) ## Affiliations [🎓**Northeastern University** Boston · United States 2024–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university/) · [🎓**Tongji University** Shanghai · China 2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tongji-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## 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).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuan-shen/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuan-shen/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Survey of Small Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nguyen-2024-survey-small-language-models/)** *(2024 · 31 citations)* Large language models perform well but need heavy compute, memory and data, so they usually run on centralized, specialized hardware. 2. **[From Words to Pixels: A Comprehensive Survey on Large Language Models in Visual Segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-words-pixels-comprehensive-survey-large/)** *(2026)* This survey covers an emerging area: driving pixel-level visual segmentation from natural-language instructions with language-based foundation models, namely LLMs (Large Language Models) together with their multimodal counterparts, LMMs (Large Multimodal Models). ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chien Van Nguyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chien-van-nguyen/) - [Jian Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jian-chen/) - [Joe Barrow](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joe-barrow/) - [Junda Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junda-wu/) - [Mihir Parmar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mihir-parmar/) - [Ryan Aponte](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-aponte/) - [Samyadeep Basu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samyadeep-basu/) - [Yizhou Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yizhou-wang/) - [Yu Xia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-xia/) - [Yun Fu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yun-fu/) ## 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 25 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuan-shen/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026