--- title: "Amirhossein Kazemnejad — author profile and papers" description: "Amirhossein Kazemnejad: 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/amirhossein-kazemnejad/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amirhossein-kazemnejad/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Amirhossein Kazemnejad # Amirhossein Kazemnejad Amirhossein Kazemnejad 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/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Siva Reddy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siva-reddy/), [Aaron Courville](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-courville/), [Alessandro Sordoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-sordoni/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5009088292) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5009088292) · [16 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009088292) · [96 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5009088292&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amirhossein-kazemnejad/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 220 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amirhossein-kazemnejad/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6493](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/65/#star-6493) 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=Amirhossein+Kazemnejad) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Amirhossein+Kazemnejad) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Amirhossein+Kazemnejad) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Amirhossein+Kazemnejad) ## Affiliations [🔬**Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute** Montreal · Canada 2022–2026 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mila-quebec-artificial-intelligence-institute/) · [🎓**McGill University** Montreal · Canada 2022–2023 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mcgill-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## 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 · 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 [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amirhossein-kazemnejad/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amirhossein-kazemnejad/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Impact of Positional Encoding on Length Generalization in Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kazemnejad-2023-impact-positional-encoding-length-generalization/)** *(2023 · 134 citations)* Transformer language models are usually trained on limited context sizes but are expected to handle longer inputs at inference. 2. **[VinePPO: Refining Credit Assignment in RL Training of LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kazemnejad-2024-vineppo-refining-credit-assignment-rl/)** *(2024 · 63 citations)* When large language models are trained with reinforcement learning on multi-step reasoning, the reward arrives only at the end. ## 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. **[The Impact of Positional Encoding on Length Generalization in Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kazemnejad-2023-impact-positional-encoding-length-generalization/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Amirhossein Kazemnejad, Inkit Padhi, Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy, et al.*2023 · 134 citations* 2. [**VinePPO: Refining Credit Assignment in RL Training of LLMs arXiv:2410.01679**Amirhossein Kazemnejad, Milad Aghajohari, Eva Portelance, et al.*2024 · 63 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kazemnejad-2024-vineppo-refining-credit-assignment-rl/) 3. **[Paraphrase Generation by Learning How to Edit from Samples ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.535/) Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Amirhossein Kazemnejad, Mohammadreza Salehi, Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah*2020 · 63 citations* 4. **[DeepSeek-R1 Thoughtology: Let's think about LLM Reasoning ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07128) arXiv:2504.07128 · no summary yet**Sara Vera Marjanovic et al.*2025 · 47 citations* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Siva Reddy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siva-reddy/) ×2 - [Aaron Courville](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-courville/) - [Alessandro Sordoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-sordoni/) - [Inkit Padhi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/inkit-padhi/) - [Karthikeyan Natesan Ramamurthy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karthikeyan-natesan-ramamurthy/) - [Nicolas Le Roux](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicolas-le-roux/) ## 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 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 220 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [48 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amirhossein-kazemnejad/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026