--- title: "Abulhair Saparov — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Abulhair Saparov, Purdue University West Lafayette: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abulhair-saparov/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abulhair-saparov/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Abulhair Saparov # Abulhair Saparov Abulhair Saparov has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [He He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/he-he/), [Najoung Kim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/najoung-kim/), [Nitish Joshi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nitish-joshi/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5062813195) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0450-9125) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q47725043) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5062813195) · [49 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5062813195) · [910 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5062813195&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abulhair-saparov/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 370 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abulhair-saparov/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4089](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/41/#star-4089) 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=Abulhair+Saparov) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Abulhair+Saparov) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Abulhair+Saparov) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Abulhair+Saparov) ## Affiliations [🎓**Purdue University West Lafayette** West Lafayette · United States 2024–2026 · 9 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/purdue-university-west-lafayette/) · [🎓**New York University** New York · United States 2022–2024 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2015–2025 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) 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. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper Abulhair Saparov's papers of 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saparov-2023-testing-general-deductive-reasoning-capacity/) · [**2022** 1 paper Abulhair Saparov's papers of 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saparov-2022-language-models-greedy-reasoners-systematic/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Language Models Are Greedy Reasoners: A Systematic Formal Analysis of Chain-of-Thought](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saparov-2022-language-models-greedy-reasoners-systematic/)** *(2022 · 239 citations)* High accuracy on reasoning benchmarks does not show how large language models reach their answers. They may recall facts from pretraining or exploit shortcuts instead of reasoning. Saparov and He address this by checking the chain-of-thought (CoT) itself, step by step, rather than only the final label. They build… 2. **[Testing the General Deductive Reasoning Capacity of Large Language Models Using OOD Examples](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saparov-2023-testing-general-deductive-reasoning-capacity/)** *(2023 · 82 citations)* Chain-of-thought prompting lets large language models do some deductive reasoning. However, earlier tests mostly used modus ponens and drew test items from the same distribution as the few-shot demonstrations. This study asks whether LLMs reason deductively in a general sense, meaning whether they can produce proofs… ## All works 5 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. [**Language Models Are Greedy Reasoners: A Systematic Formal Analysis of Chain-of-Thought arXiv:2210.01240**Abulhair Saparov, He He*2022 · 239 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saparov-2022-language-models-greedy-reasoners-systematic/) 2. **[Testing the General Deductive Reasoning Capacity of Large Language Models Using OOD Examples](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saparov-2023-testing-general-deductive-reasoning-capacity/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Abulhair Saparov, Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Vishakh Padmakumar, et al.*2023 · 82 citations* 3. **[Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09932) arXiv:2404.09932 · no summary yet**Usman Anwar et al.*2024 · 77 citations* 4. **[A Practical Review of Mechanistic Interpretability for Transformer-Based Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.02646) arXiv:2407.02646 · no summary yet**Daking Rai et al.*2024 · 57 citations* 5. **[Retrieval-Augmented Chain-of-Thought in Semi-structured Domains ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.nllp-1.18/) Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2023 · no summary yet**Vaibhav Mavi, Abulhair Saparov, Chen Zhao*2023 · 9 citations* ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [He He](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/he-he/) ×2 - [Najoung Kim](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/najoung-kim/) - [Nitish Joshi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nitish-joshi/) - [Richard Yuanzhe Pang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-yuanzhe-pang/) - [Vishakh Padmakumar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vishakh-padmakumar/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2023/) - Proceedings of the Natural Legal Language Processing Workshop 2023 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 370 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [28 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abulhair-saparov/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026