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Bairu Hou

Bairu Hou has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on Language models & pretraining, Reasoning; often with Shiyu Chang, Alon Albalak, Colin Raffel.

2 papers in our library · 2024–2025

OpenAlex · h-index 6 · 27 works · 169 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 153 citations in our library · 2 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Star rank #4865

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 Affiliations

🎓University of California, Santa BarbaraSanta Barbara · United States2022–2026 · 8 paperscurrent🎓Tsinghua UniversityBeijing · China2020–2021 · 4 papers🔬Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and TechnologyBeijing · China2020–2021 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Concepts, shelves and topics

Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them.

📚 Shelves 5 Arts and Humanities · 2 works Computer Science · 2 works Artificial Intelligence · 2 works Language and Linguistics · 2 works Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work

🧭 Topics 2 Language models & pretraining · 2 works Reasoning · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20251 paper20241 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. A Survey on Data Selection for Language Models (2024 · 85 citations)
    Large language models depend on huge web-scale corpora, but using every available document is often wasteful or harmful because text quality varies widely.
  2. ThinkPrune: Pruning Long Chain-of-Thought of LLMs via Reinforcement Learning (2025 · 64 citations)
    Reasoning models trained to produce long chains of thought often generate redundant, inefficient reasoning, which inflates inference cost.

All works

4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. A Survey on Data Selection for Language ModelsAlon Albalak, Yanai Elazar, Sang Michael Xie, et al.arXiv:2402.16827 · 85 citations
  2. ThinkPrune: Pruning Long Chain-of-Thought of LLMs via Reinforcement LearningBairu Hou, Yang Zhang, Jiabao Ji, et al.arXiv:2504.01296 · 64 citations
  3. A Probabilistic Framework for LLM Hallucination Detection via Belief Tree Propagation (original ↗)Bairu Hou et al.2025 · Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the… · 12 citations · no summary yet
  4. WebDART: Dynamic Decomposition and Re-planning for Complex Web Tasks (original ↗)Jingbo Yang et al.2026 · Findings of the Association for Computational… · 2 citations · no summary yet

 Co-authors here

12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 153 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 5 citing papers with a page here →.

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