--- title: "Yifan Simon Liu — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yifan Simon Liu, University of Toronto: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-simon-liu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-simon-liu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yifan Simon Liu # Yifan Simon Liu Yifan Simon Liu 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/), [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Armin Toroghi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/armin-toroghi/), [Jiazhou Liang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiazhou-liang/), [Scott Sanner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/scott-sanner/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5127900191) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5127900191) · [15 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5127900191) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5127900191&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-simon-liu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 7 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-simon-liu/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10321](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/104/#star-10321) 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=Yifan+Simon+Liu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yifan+Simon+Liu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yifan+Simon+Liu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yifan+Simon+Liu) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Toronto** Toronto · Canada 2026 · 9 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-toronto/) 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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-simon-liu/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Multimodal Item Scoring for Natural Language Recommendation via Gaussian Process Regression with LLM Relevance Judgments](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-multimodal-item-scoring-natural-language/)** *(2026 · 4 citations)* Natural Language Recommendation (NLRec) ranks items, each described by several text passages, against a free-form user request. 2. **[Semantic XPath: Structured Agentic Memory Access for Conversational AI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-semantic-xpath-structured-agentic-memory/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* Task-oriented conversational agents, such as those that plan trips, manage to-do lists or recommend meal kits, must keep revisable, hierarchical memory across many turns. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Armin Toroghi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/armin-toroghi/) ×2 - [Jiazhou Liang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiazhou-liang/) ×2 - [Scott Sanner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/scott-sanner/) ×2 - [Justin Cui](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/justin-cui/) ## 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/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 7 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/yifan-simon-liu/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026