--- title: "Alexander Wei — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Alexander Wei, United States Military Academy: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-wei/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-wei/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Alexander Wei # Alexander Wei Alexander Wei has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, 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/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Daniel Selsam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-selsam/), [David Dohan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-dohan/), [Francis Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francis-song/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5064061424) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4295-5361) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125902713) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5064061424) · [17 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5064061424) · [541 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5064061424&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-wei/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 626 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-wei/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3262](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/33/#star-3262) 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=Alexander+Wei) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Alexander+Wei) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Alexander+Wei) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Alexander+Wei) ## Affiliations [🎓**United States Military Academy** West Point · United States 2024 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/01jepya76) · [🔬**Army Cyber Institute at West Point** West Point · United States 2024 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/01b61x679) · [🏛️**United States Army** Arlington · United States 2024 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/united-states-army/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2020–2023 · 8 papersEducation since 2020 · PhD, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 2016–2020 · 3 papersEducation 2016–2020 · A.B., Computer Science and MathematicsEducation 2019–2020 · S.M., Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) 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 7 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/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science Applications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-science-applications/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[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/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-wei/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-wei/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Jailbroken: How Does LLM Safety Training Fail?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wei-2023-jailbroken-llm-safety-training-fail/)** *(2023 · 688 citations)* Chat models that have gone through safety tuning, such as GPT-4 and Claude v1.3, can still be pushed into producing content they were trained to refuse. 2. **[Competitive Programming with Large Reasoning Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/el-kishky-2025-competitive-programming-large-reasoning-models/)** *(2025 · 68 citations)* This OpenAI report asks whether LLM performance in competitive programming improves more from hand-built, task-specific inference pipelines or from scaling general reinforcement learning. ## All works 4 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. **[Jailbroken: How Does LLM Safety Training Fail?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wei-2023-jailbroken-llm-safety-training-fail/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Alexander Wei, Nika Haghtalab, Jacob Steinhardt*2023 · 688 citations* 2. **[Human-level play in the game of Diplomacy by combining language models with strategic reasoning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ade9097) Science · no summary yet**Anton Bakhtin et al.*2022 · 328 citations* 3. [**Competitive Programming with Large Reasoning Models arXiv:2502.06807**OpenAI: Ahmed El-Kishky, Alexander Wei, Andre Saraiva, et al.*2025 · 68 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/el-kishky-2025-competitive-programming-large-reasoning-models/) 4. **[Learning Equilibria in Matching Markets with Bandit Feedback ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3583681) Journal of the ACM · no summary yet**Meena Jagadeesan et al.*2021 · 5 citations* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Daniel Selsam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-selsam/) - [David Dohan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-dohan/) - [Francis Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francis-song/) - [Hunter Lightman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hunter-lightman/) - [Jacob Steinhardt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacob-steinhardt/) - [Jakub Pachocki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakub-pachocki/) - [Jerry Tworek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jerry-tworek/) - [Lorenz Kuhn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lorenz-kuhn/) ## 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/) - Journal of the ACM - Science ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 626 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [207 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-wei/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026