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Weiran Xu

Weiran Xu has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2021, most of them on Information extraction; often with Wei Wu, William Yang Wang.

2 papers in our library · 2018–2021

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 19 · 131 works · 2,052 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 235 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2300

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 Affiliations

🎓Beijing University of Posts and TelecommunicationsBeijing · China2005–2026 · 111 paperscurrent🎓Tsinghua UniversityBeijing · China2022–2023 · 3 papers🎓Peking UniversityBeijing · China2023–2025 · 2 papers🎓Stanford UniversityStanford · United States2025 · 2 papers🏥Beijing Tian Tan HospitalBeijing · China2023–2024 · 2 papers🎓Capital Medical UniversityBeijing · China2023–2024 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 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 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 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.Information extraction · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20211 paperWeiran Xu's papers of 2021

2010s

20181 paperWeiran Xu's papers of 2018

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. ConSERT: A Contrastive Framework for Self-Supervised Sentence Representation Transfer (2021 · 648 citations)
    Sentence vectors taken directly from BERT, whether the [CLS] output or averaged token embeddings, behave poorly on semantic textual similarity (STS).
  2. Robust Distant Supervision Relation Extraction via Deep Reinforcement Learning (2018 · 297 citations)
    Distant supervision labels training sentences automatically by aligning a knowledge base (Freebase) with raw text.

 Co-authors here

2 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 235 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 8 citing papers with a page here →.

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