--- title: "Aaquib Syed — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Aaquib Syed: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaquib-syed/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaquib-syed/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Aaquib Syed # Aaquib Syed Aaquib Syed has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Arthur Conmy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arthur-conmy/), [Can Rager](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/can-rager/), [Daniel Paleka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-paleka/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5108853245) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5108853245) · [3 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5108853245) · [84 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5108853245&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaquib-syed/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 256 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaquib-syed/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5739](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/58/#star-5739) 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=Aaquib+Syed) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Aaquib+Syed) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Aaquib+Syed) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Aaquib+Syed) ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Software · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaquib-syed/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaquib-syed/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arditi-2024-refusal-language-models-mediated-single/)** *(2024 · 196 citations)* Chat LLMs are safety-tuned to decline harmful requests, but how this behavior works inside the model is poorly understood. 2. **[Attribution Patching Outperforms Automated Circuit Discovery](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/syed-2023-attribution-patching-outperforms-automated-circuit/)** *(2023 · 81 citations)* Mechanistic interpretability tries to find circuits, which are small subgraphs of a network that account for a specific behavior. Automated tools such as ACDC rely on activation patching. That method needs an extra forward pass for each edge it tests, so it scales poorly to large models. ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Arthur Conmy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arthur-conmy/) - [Can Rager](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/can-rager/) - [Daniel Paleka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-paleka/) - [Neel Nanda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/neel-nanda/) - [Nina Panickssery](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nina-panickssery/) - [Wes Gurnee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wes-gurnee/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 256 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [63 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaquib-syed/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026