--- title: "Benno Krojer — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Benno Krojer, Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2023), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benno-krojer/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benno-krojer/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Benno Krojer # Benno Krojer Benno Krojer has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Daniel Fried](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-fried/), [Hinrich Schütze](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hinrich-schutze/), [Jiefu Ou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiefu-ou/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5073456064) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1649-428X) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5073456064) · [27 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5073456064) · [116 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5073456064&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benno-krojer/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 100 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benno-krojer/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6958](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/70/#star-6958) 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=Benno+Krojer) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Benno+Krojer) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Benno+Krojer) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Benno+Krojer) ## Affiliations [🎓**McGill University** Montreal · Canada 2022–2026 · 9 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mcgill-university/) · [🔬**Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute** Montreal · Canada 2022–2026 · 9 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mila-quebec-artificial-intelligence-institute/) · [🎓**Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München** Munich · Germany 2020 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen/) 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 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 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 [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benno-krojer/year/2023/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benno-krojer/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Are Pretrained Language Models Symbolic Reasoners over Knowledge?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kassner-2020-are-pretrained-language-models-symbolic/)** *(2020 · 81 citations)* Probing studies show that pretrained language models hold many facts, but they cannot reveal how that knowledge was acquired. 2. **[Pragmatic Inference with a CLIP Listener for Contrastive Captioning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ou-2023-pragmatic-inference-clip-listener-contrastive/)** *(2023 · 10 citations)* The paper addresses contrastive (discriminative) captioning: describing a target image so that a person can pick it out from a set of nearly identical distractors. ## All works 3 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. **[Are Pretrained Language Models Symbolic Reasoners over Knowledge?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kassner-2020-are-pretrained-language-models-symbolic/) [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/)**Nora Kassner, Benno Krojer, Hinrich Schütze*2020 · 81 citations* 2. **[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* 3. **[Pragmatic Inference with a CLIP Listener for Contrastive Captioning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ou-2023-pragmatic-inference-clip-listener-contrastive/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Jiefu Ou, Benno Krojer, Daniel Fried*2023 · 10 citations* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Daniel Fried](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-fried/) - [Hinrich Schütze](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hinrich-schutze/) - [Jiefu Ou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiefu-ou/) - [Nora Kassner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nora-kassner/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/): [CoNLL 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/2020/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 100 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [21 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benno-krojer/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026