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Liliang Ren

Liliang Ren has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2024, most of them on Language models & pretraining, Dialogue systems; often with Chen Liang, Kai Yu, Kaige Xie.

2 papers in our library · 2018–2024

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 1 · 6 works · 8 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 107 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5297

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 Affiliations

🎓Hohai UniversityNanjing · China2026 · 1 papercurrent

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 5The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work

🧭 Topics 2Research subjects and languages the work is about.Dialogue systems · 1 workLanguage models & pretraining · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20241 paper

2010s

20181 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Towards Universal Dialogue State Tracking (2018 · 191 citations)
    The paper tackles dialogue state tracking (DST), which means estimating a user's goal as slot-value pairs at each turn of a task-oriented spoken dialogue.
  2. Samba: Simple Hybrid State Space Models for Efficient Unlimited Context Language Modeling (2024 · 59 citations)
    Language models struggle with very long inputs. Full attention scales quadratically with sequence length, while state space models (SSMs) are linear but recall specific details poorly. The authors propose Samba, a hybrid that stacks Mamba layers, SwiGLU MLPs and Sliding Window Attention (SWA, window 2048) in…

 Co-authors here

7 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 107 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 15 citing papers with a page here →.

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