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# Amir Feder

Amir Feder has 4 papers in our library, in 2020–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/); often with [Claudia Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claudia-shi/), [David M. Blei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-m-blei/), [Nadav Oved](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nadav-oved/).

4 papers in our library · 2020–2026

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5056266191) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5472-1135) · [**h-index 16**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5056266191) · [75 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5056266191) · [1,546 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5056266191&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amir-feder/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 462 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amir-feder/cited-by/) · [10 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5882](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/59/#star-5882)

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=Amir+Feder) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Amir+Feder) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Amir+Feder) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Amir+Feder)

## Affiliations

[🎓**Columbia University** New York · United States 2021–2026 · 17 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/columbia-university/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2020–2026 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🏢**Google** Haifa · Israel 2021–2026 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-israel/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🎓**Hebrew University of Jerusalem** Jerusalem · Israel 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hebrew-university-of-jerusalem/) · [🎓**Technion – Israel Institute of Technology** Haifa · Israel 2018–2025 · 19 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technion-israel-institute-of-technology/)

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 11 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Social Sciences · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Cognitive Neuroscience · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/cognitive-neuroscience/) · [Neuroscience · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/neuroscience/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [General Social Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/general-social-sciences/) · [Economics and Econometrics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/economics-econometrics-and-finance/economics-and-econometrics/) · [Economics, Econometrics and Finance · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/economics-econometrics-and-finance/)

🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/)

💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Topic modeling · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/topic-modeling/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amir-feder/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amir-feder/year/2023/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amir-feder/year/2021/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amir-feder/year/2020/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Evaluating the Moral Beliefs Encoded in LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/scherrer-2023-evaluating-moral-beliefs-encoded-llms/)** *(2023 · 129 citations)* The paper examines which moral preferences large language models reveal when treated as survey respondents. It also addresses two practical obstacles: models emit token strings rather than discrete choices, and their answers shift with prompt wording.
2. **[CausaLM: Causal Model Explanation Through Counterfactual Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/feder-2021-causalm-causal-model-explanation-through/)** *(2021 · 107 citations)* Explaining what drives a neural text classifier is hard. Standard attribution tools measure correlation, not causation, so they cannot separate the influence of two related high-level concepts, such as a politician's name and the adjectives around it. A proper causal estimate requires counterfactual texts, which…
3. **[Predicting In-Game Actions from Interviews of NBA Players](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oved-2020-predicting-game-actions-interviews-nba/)** *(2020 · 24 citations)* Sports analytics usually forecasts player behavior from historical statistics alone and ignores what athletes say off the court.
4. **[Model Directions, Not Words: Mechanistic Topic Models Using Sparse Autoencoders](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zheng-2026-model-directions-not-words-mechanistic/)** *(2026)* Classic topic models such as LDA work on word counts, and most neural variants still present topics as ranked word lists.

## All works

14 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. **[Shared computational principles for language processing in humans and deep language models ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01026-4) Nature Neuroscience · no summary yet**Ariel Goldstein et al.*2022 · 494 citations*
2. **[Causal Inference in Natural Language Processing: Estimation, Prediction, Interpretation and Beyond ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.00725) arXiv:2109.00725 · no summary yet**Amir Feder et al.*2021 · 309 citations*
3. **[Does Fine-Tuning LLMs on New Knowledge Encourage Hallucinations? ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05904) arXiv:2405.05904 · no summary yet**Zorik Gekhman et al.*2024 · 171 citations*
4. **[Evaluating the Moral Beliefs Encoded in LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/scherrer-2023-evaluating-moral-beliefs-encoded-llms/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Nino Scherrer, Claudia Shi, Amir Feder, et al.*2023 · 129 citations*
5. **[CausaLM: Causal Model Explanation Through Counterfactual Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/feder-2021-causalm-causal-model-explanation-through/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Amir Feder, Nadav Oved, Uri Shalit, et al.*2021 · 107 citations*
6. **[Thinking ahead: spontaneous prediction in context as a keystone of language in humans and machines ↗](https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.12.02.403477) bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · no summary yet**Ariel Goldstein et al.*2020 · 56 citations*
7. **[CEBaB: Estimating the Causal Effects of Real-World Concepts on NLP Model Behavior ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.14140) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Eldar David Abraham et al.*2022 · 29 citations*
8. **[Predicting In-Game Actions from Interviews of NBA Players](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/oved-2020-predicting-game-actions-interviews-nba/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Nadav Oved, Amir Feder, Roi Reichart*2020 · 24 citations*
9. **[Correspondence between the layered structure of deep language models and temporal structure of natural language processing in the human brain ↗](https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.07.11.499562) bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · no summary yet**Ariel Goldstein et al.*2022 · 22 citations*
10. **[Temporal structure of natural language processing in the human brain corresponds to layered hierarchy of large language models ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-65518-0) Nature Communications · no summary yet**Ariel Goldstein et al.*2025 · 17 citations*
11. **[Data Augmentations for Improved (Large) Language Model Generalization ↗](https://doi.org/10.52202/075280-3096) neural information processing systems · no summary yet**Amir Feder et al.*2023 · 8 citations*
12. **[An Invariant Learning Characterization of Controlled Text Generation ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-long.179/) Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Carolina Zheng et al.*2023 · 7 citations*
13. **[Model Directions, Not Words: Mechanistic Topic Models Using Sparse Autoencoders](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zheng-2026-model-directions-not-words-mechanistic/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Carolina Zheng, Nicolas Beltran-Velez, Sweta Karlekar, et al.*2026*
14. **[Multi-environment Topic Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.24126) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Dominic Sobhani, Amir Feder, David M. Blei*2024*

## Co-authors here

5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Claudia Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/claudia-shi/) ×2
- [David M. Blei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-m-blei/) ×2
- [Nadav Oved](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nadav-oved/) ×2
- [Roi Reichart](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roi-reichart/) ×2
- [Nino Scherrer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nino-scherrer/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/) ×2: [Computational Linguistics 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/2021/), [Computational Linguistics 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/2020/)
- bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) ×2
- [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/)
- [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2026/)
- Nature Communications
- Nature Neuroscience
- Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- neural information processing systems

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 462 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [93 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amir-feder/cited-by/).

Updated 2 November 2026