--- title: "Zhi-Rui Tam — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Zhi-Rui Tam, National Taiwan University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhi-rui-tam/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhi-rui-tam/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zhi-Rui Tam # Zhi-Rui Tam Zhi-Rui Tam has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, 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/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Yun-Nung Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yun-nung-chen/), [Andreas Köpf](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andreas-kopf/), [Cheng-Kuang Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-kuang-wu/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5028150164) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9968-2416) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5028150164) · [22 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5028150164) · [203 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5028150164&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhi-rui-tam/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 440 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhi-rui-tam/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3703](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/38/#star-3703) 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=Zhi-Rui+Tam) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhi-Rui+Tam) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhi-Rui+Tam) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhi-Rui+Tam) ## Affiliations [🎓**National Taiwan University** Taipei · Taiwan 2024–2026 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-taiwan-university/) · [🎓**National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University** Hsinchu · Taiwan 2020–2024 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-yang-ming-chiao-tung-university/) 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 · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhi-rui-tam/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhi-rui-tam/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhi-rui-tam/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[OpenAssistant Conversations — Democratizing Large Language Model Alignment](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kopf-2023-openassistant-conversations-democratizing-large-language/)** *(2023 · 518 citations)* Aligning large language models with SFT and RLHF depends on good human demonstrations and preference judgments. 2. **[Language Matters: How Do Multilingual Input and Reasoning Paths Affect Large Reasoning Models?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tam-2025-language-matters-multilingual-input-reasoning/)** *(2025 · 17 citations)* Large reasoning models (LRMs) write an explicit thinking trace before they answer. It is unclear which language that trace uses when the prompt is not in English, and whether the choice matters. Tam et al. show that open-weight LRMs such as QwQ-32B and Qwen3-30B-A3B mostly think in English, and sometimes in Chinese.… 3. **[VisTW: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Taiwanese Mandarin in Taiwan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tam-2026-vistw-benchmarking-vision-language-models/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Most multimodal benchmarks target English or Simplified Chinese. This leaves vision-language models (VLMs) largely untested on Traditional Chinese as used in Taiwan, where script, terminology and cultural references differ. The authors present VisTW, a benchmark with two parts: ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**OpenAssistant Conversations — Democratizing Large Language Model Alignment arXiv:2304.07327**Andreas Köpf, Yannic Kilcher, Dimitri von Rütte, et al.*2023 · 518 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kopf-2023-openassistant-conversations-democratizing-large-language/) 2. **[Let Me Speak Freely? A Study On The Impact Of Format Restrictions On Large Language Model Performance. ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-industry.91/) Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track · no summary yet**Zhi Rui Tam et al.*2024 · 84 citations* 3. [**Language Matters: How Do Multilingual Input and Reasoning Paths Affect Large Reasoning Models? arXiv:2505.17407**Zhi Rui Tam, Cheng-Kuang Wu, Yu Ying Chiu, et al.*2025 · 17 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tam-2025-language-matters-multilingual-input-reasoning/) 4. **[VisTW: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Taiwanese Mandarin in Taiwan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tam-2026-vistw-benchmarking-vision-language-models/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Zhi Rui Tam, Yung-Yu Shih, Yen-Wei Lee, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Yun-Nung Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yun-nung-chen/) ×2 - [Andreas Köpf](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andreas-kopf/) - [Cheng-Kuang Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-kuang-wu/) - [Hung-yi Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hung-yi-lee/) - [Keith Stevens](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/keith-stevens/) - [Shahul ES](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shahul-es/) - [Yu Ying Chiu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-ying-chiu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [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/) - Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing: Industry Track ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 440 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [118 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhi-rui-tam/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026