--- title: "Ziyan Liu — author profile and papers · Vision & language" description: "Ziyan Liu, East China University of Science and Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 0 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziyan-liu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziyan-liu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ziyan Liu # Ziyan Liu Ziyan Liu has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Jingping Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingping-liu/), [Yan Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yan-zhou/), [Haiyun Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haiyun-jiang/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5139728836) · [**h-index 0**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5139728836) · [3 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139728836) · [0 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5139728836&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziyan-liu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 6 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziyan-liu/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9864](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/99/#star-9864) 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=Ziyan+Liu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ziyan+Liu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ziyan+Liu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ziyan+Liu) ## Affiliations [🎓**East China University of Science and Technology** Shanghai · China 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/east-china-university-of-science-and-technology/) 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/) · [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 · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Vision & language · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziyan-liu/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ziyan-liu/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Can Multimodal Large Language Models Understand Spatial Relations?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2025-can-multimodal-large-language-models/)** *(2025 · 11 citations)* Spatial relation reasoning is a basic skill for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), but existing benchmarks have several weaknesses. 2. **[MirrorQA: Benchmarking Multimodal LLMs on Mirror-Orientation Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/liu-2026-mirrorqa-benchmarking-multimodal-llms-mirror/)** *(2026)* Multimodal LLMs often confuse left and right when a question concerns a person's or animal's own body. They tend to answer from the viewer's side of the image rather than the subject's. Existing spatial benchmarks (e.g., EmbSpatial-Bench, VSR) define directions from the camera's viewpoint, and pose datasets like COCO… ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Jingping Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jingping-liu/) ×2 - [Yan Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yan-zhou/) ×2 - [Haiyun Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haiyun-jiang/) - [Huacan Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huacan-wang/) - [Ronghao Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ronghao-chen/) - [Tong Ruan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-ruan/) - [Weiyan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/weiyan-zhang/) ## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/), [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 6 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/ziyan-liu/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026