--- title: "Arnaud Doucet — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Arnaud Doucet: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 68 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arnaud-doucet/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arnaud-doucet/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Arnaud Doucet # Arnaud Doucet Arnaud Doucet 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/); often with [Aditya Siddhant](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aditya-siddhant/), [Caglar Gulcehre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caglar-gulcehre/), [Wolfgang Macherey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wolfgang-macherey/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5091677854) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7662-419X) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q82048855) · [**h-index 68**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5091677854) · [697 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5091677854) · [39,654 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5091677854&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arnaud-doucet/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 293 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arnaud-doucet/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5431](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/55/#star-5431) 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=Arnaud+Doucet) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Arnaud+Doucet) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Arnaud+Doucet) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Arnaud+Doucet) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Oxford** Oxford · United Kingdom 2009–2026 · 140 papersEmployment 2011–2024 · Professor, Statistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oxford/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 1998–2021 · 97 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🎓**University of British Columbia** Vancouver · Canada 2005–2012 · 73 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-british-columbia/) · [🎓**The University of Melbourne** Melbourne · Australia 2000–2006 · 25 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-melbourne/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2019–2026 · 13 papersEmployment since 2019 · Senior Staff Research Scientist, Frontier AI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🔬**The Institute of Statistical Mathematics** Tokyo · Japan 2006–2010 · 11 papers](https://ror.org/03jcejr58) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2020–2026 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🏛️**Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives** Paris · France 1996–2004 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/government/commissariat-a-l-energie-atomique-et-aux-energies-alternatives/) · [🔬**Equipes Traitement de l'Information et Systèmes** Cergy-Pontoise · France 1996–2002 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/0592ata02) · [🎓**École Nationale Supérieure de l'Électronique et de ses Applications** Cergy · France 1996–2002 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/03qeacd72) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 33 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 5 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/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[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/arnaud-doucet/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arnaud-doucet/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Reinforced Self-Training (ReST) for Language Modeling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gulcehre-2023-reinforced-self-training-rest-language/)** *(2023 · 224 citations)* Aligning large language models with human preferences through RLHF usually relies on online algorithms such as PPO. 2. **[Simplified and Generalized Masked Diffusion for Discrete Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2024-simplified-generalized-masked-diffusion-discrete/)** *(2024 · 90 citations)* Masked (absorbing-state) diffusion is a possible alternative to autoregressive generation for discrete data such as text and pixels. ## 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. [**Reinforced Self-Training (ReST) for Language Modeling arXiv:2308.08998**Caglar Gulcehre, Tom Le Paine, Srivatsan Srinivasan, et al.*2023 · 224 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gulcehre-2023-reinforced-self-training-rest-language/) 2. **[Fast particle smoothing ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1143844.1143905) International Conference on Machine Learning · no summary yet**Mike Klaas et al.*2006 · 163 citations* 3. **[Simplified and Generalized Masked Diffusion for Discrete Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shi-2024-simplified-generalized-masked-diffusion-discrete/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Jiaxin Shi, Kehang Han, Zhe Wang, et al.*2024 · 90 citations* 4. **[SE(3) diffusion model with application to protein backbone generation ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02277) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Jason Yim et al.*2023 · 85 citations* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aditya Siddhant](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aditya-siddhant/) - [Caglar Gulcehre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caglar-gulcehre/) - [Wolfgang Macherey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wolfgang-macherey/) - [Zhe Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhe-wang/) ## 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 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2024/) - International Conference on Machine Learning ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 293 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [69 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arnaud-doucet/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026