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# Zhiqiang Shen

Zhiqiang Shen has 5 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Liqun Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liqun-ma/), [Mukul Ranjan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mukul-ranjan/), [Ahmed Heakl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-heakl/).

5 papers in our library · 2023–2026

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5066530136) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4560-5092) · [**h-index 25**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5066530136) · [89 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5066530136) · [6,262 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5066530136&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 5 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiqiang-shen/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 79 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiqiang-shen/cited-by/) · [6 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8612](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/87/#star-8612)

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=Zhiqiang+Shen) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhiqiang+Shen) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhiqiang+Shen) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhiqiang+Shen)

## Affiliations

[🎓**Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2021–2026 · 17 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mohamed-bin-zayed-university-of-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2017–2022 · 28 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Fudan University** Shanghai · China 2015–2019 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/fudan-university/) · [🎓**Shanghai Jiao Tong University** Shanghai · China 2023 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/shanghai-jiao-tong-university/) · [🔬**Beijing Institute of Spacecraft Environment Engineering** Beijing · China 2019–2023 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/03azyxz81) · [🎓**PLA Army Service Academy** Chongqing · China 2014–2019 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/02syyrn67) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2018–2019 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**National University of Defense Technology** Changsha · China 2002–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-defense-technology/) · [🎓**National University of Science and Technology** Moscow · Russia 2025 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/019vsm959) · [🎓**National University of Science and Technology** Bulawayo · Zimbabwe 2025 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/02kesvt12)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 11 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).[Arts and Humanities · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 5 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/)

🧭 Topics 5 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [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** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiqiang-shen/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiqiang-shen/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiqiang-shen/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiqiang-shen/year/2023/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[SlimPajama-DC: Understanding Data Combinations for LLM Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2023-slimpajama-dc-understanding-data-combinations/)** *(2023 · 38 citations)* Pretraining corpora for LLMs are usually built from several sources, such as web crawls, code, books, and Wikipedia.
2. **[KITAB-Bench: A Comprehensive Multi-Domain Benchmark for Arabic OCR and Document Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/heakl-2025-kitab-bench-comprehensive-multi-domain/)** *(2025 · 21 citations)* Arabic OCR trails English OCR. The script is cursive and written right to left, and its typography is rich. Existing Arabic datasets mostly cover isolated handwriting or printed lines, not full document understanding. KITAB-Bench fills this gap with 8,809 evaluation samples spread over 9 major tasks and 36…
3. **[FBI-LLM: Scaling Up Fully Binarized LLMs from Scratch via Autoregressive Distillation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2024-fbi-llm-scaling-up-fully/)** *(2024 · 7 citations)* Binarizing LLMs down to pure 1-bit weights could greatly cut memory and compute. Earlier approaches fall short of that limit. Some keep salient weights at higher precision (PB-LLM, BiLLM), and BitNet b1.58 uses ternary values. Others start from a pretrained full-precision model, which locks in its size and vocabulary…
4. **[LLMSurgeon: Diagnosing Data Mixture of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/luo-2026-llmsurgeon-diagnosing-data-mixture-large/)** *(2026)* LLM developers rarely disclose the composition of their pretraining data. This makes it hard to audit models for bias, copyright exposure or uneven performance across domains. Membership inference attacks work one document at a time and scale poorly to corpus-level questions. The authors define Data Mixture Surgery…
5. **[On the Cultural Anachronism and Temporal Reasoning in Vision Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ranjan-2026-cultural-anachronism-temporal-reasoning-vision/)** *(2026)* Vision-language models are increasingly used in museums, digital archives and educational tools. The authors point to a failure they call cultural anachronism: a model explains a historical object through concepts, materials, techniques or cultural frames from the wrong era. To measure it, they built TAB-VLM, a…

## All works

11 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 5 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[Partial Is Better Than All: Revisiting Fine-tuning Strategy for Few-shot Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v35i11.17155) Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence · no summary yet**Zhiqiang Shen et al.*2021 · 159 citations*
2. **[Vision Transformer Slimming: Multi-Dimension Searching in Continuous Optimization Space ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00814) arXiv:2201.00814 · no summary yet**Arnav Chavan et al.*2022 · 82 citations*
3. [**SlimPajama-DC: Understanding Data Combinations for LLM Training arXiv:2309.10818**Zhiqiang Shen, Tianhua Tao, Liqun Ma, et al.*2023 · 38 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2023-slimpajama-dc-understanding-data-combinations/)
4. **[KITAB-Bench: A Comprehensive Multi-Domain Benchmark for Arabic OCR and Document Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/heakl-2025-kitab-bench-comprehensive-multi-domain/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Ahmed Heakl, Muhammad Abdullah Sohail, Mukul Ranjan, et al.*2025 · 21 citations*
5. **[Exploring Simple and Transferable Recognition-Aware Image Processing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2022.3183243) IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · no summary yet**Zhuang Liu et al.*2019 · 14 citations*
6. [**FBI-LLM: Scaling Up Fully Binarized LLMs from Scratch via Autoregressive Distillation arXiv:2407.07093**Liqun Ma, Mingjie Sun, Zhiqiang Shen*2024 · 7 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2024-fbi-llm-scaling-up-fully/)
7. **[Initializing Models with Larger Ones ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.18823) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Zhiqiu Xu et al.*2023 · 7 citations*
8. **[VideoMolmo: Spatio-Temporal Grounding Meets Pointing ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05336) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Ghazi Shazan Ahmad et al.*2025 · 2 citations*
9. **[LLMSurgeon: Diagnosing Data Mixture of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/luo-2026-llmsurgeon-diagnosing-data-mixture-large/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yaxin Luo, Jiacheng Cui, Xiaohan Zhao, et al.*2026*
10. **[On the Cultural Anachronism and Temporal Reasoning in Vision Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ranjan-2026-cultural-anachronism-temporal-reasoning-vision/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Mukul Ranjan, Prince Jha, Khushboo Kumari, et al.*2026*
11. **[Mobile-MMLU: A Mobile Intelligence Language Understanding Benchmark ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.20786) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Sondos Mahmoud Bsharat et al.*2025*

## Co-authors here

12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Liqun Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liqun-ma/) ×2
- [Mukul Ranjan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mukul-ranjan/) ×2
- [Ahmed Heakl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ahmed-heakl/)
- [Bowen Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-tan/)
- [Eric P. Xing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-p-xing/)
- [Fahad Shahbaz Khan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fahad-shahbaz-khan/)
- [Jiacheng Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiacheng-liu/)
- [Joel Hestness](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joel-hestness/)
- [Mingjie Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mingjie-sun/)
- [Natalia Vassilieva](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/natalia-vassilieva/)
- [Rania Elbadry](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rania-elbadry/)
- [Salman Khan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salman-khan/)

## 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/) ×2: [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/), [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2025/)
- [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/)
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
- Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 79 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [24 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiqiang-shen/cited-by/).

Updated 2 November 2026