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Ziang Xiao

Ziang Xiao has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on Language models & pretraining; often with Adam Trischler, Alessandro Sordoni, Amanda Cercas Curry.

3 papers in our library · 2023–2026

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 17 · 72 works · 1,381 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 3 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 18 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8799

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 Affiliations

🎓Johns Hopkins UniversityBaltimore · United States2023–2026 · 38 paperscurrent🎓University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUrbana · United States2017–2024 · 20 papers🏢Microsoft Research MontréalMontreal · Canada2023–2024 · 4 papers🔬Allen Institute for Artificial IntelligenceSeattle · United States2024 · 2 papers🎓New York UniversityNew York · United States2023–2024 · 2 papers🎓Purdue University West LafayetteWest Lafayette · United States2021–2024 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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 4The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 3 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 3 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 works

🧭 Topics 1Research subjects and languages the work is about.Language models & pretraining · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20261 paper20251 paper20231 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Joint Prompt Optimization of Stacked LLMs using Variational Inference (2023 · 23 citations)
    The paper treats an instruction-following LLM as a stochastic "language layer." The layer maps a text input to a distribution over text outputs, and its trainable parameters are natural-language prompts rather than weights.
  2. Generative Personality Simulation via Theory-Informed Structured Interview (2026 · 1 citation)
    LLMs are increasingly used as stand-ins for human participants, but their simulated answers to personality questionnaires tend to be too uniform.
  3. Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Bridging Human-Computer Interaction and Natural Language Processing (HCI+NLP) (2025)
    These are the proceedings of the fourth HCI+NLP workshop. The event took place on 9 November 2025 as part of EMNLP 2025. Its goal is to bring two communities closer together: natural language processing (NLP) and human-computer interaction (HCI). For NLP researchers, the workshop shows how HCI methods help evaluate…

 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 18 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 6 citing papers with a page here →.

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