--- title: "Brandon Norick — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Brandon Norick: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2025), h-index 12 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brandon-norick/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brandon-norick/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Brandon Norick # Brandon Norick Brandon Norick has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/); often with [Mostofa Patwary](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mostofa-patwary/), [Bryan Catanzaro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bryan-catanzaro/), [Dan Su](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-su/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5048591183) · [**h-index 12**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5048591183) · [27 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5048591183) · [2,008 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5048591183&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brandon-norick/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,600 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brandon-norick/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3187](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/32/#star-3187) 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=Brandon+Norick) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Brandon+Norick) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Brandon+Norick) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Brandon+Norick) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States 2012–2018 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/) · [🎓**Montana State University** Bozeman · United States 2010–2011 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/02w0trx84) 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).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Hardware and Architecture · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/hardware-and-architecture/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Text generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brandon-norick/year/2025/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brandon-norick/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Using DeepSpeed and Megatron to Train Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, A Large-Scale Generative Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/smith-2022-using-deepspeed-megatron-train-megatron/)** *(2022 · 615 citations)* The paper describes how Microsoft and NVIDIA trained Megatron-Turing NLG 530B (MT-NLG), a dense, left-to-right autoregressive transformer with 530 billion parameters. 2. **[Nemotron-CC: Transforming Common Crawl into a Refined Long-Horizon Pretraining Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/su-2025-nemotron-cc-transforming-common-crawl/)** *(2025 · 65 citations)* Leading English web corpora built from Common Crawl, such as FineWeb-Edu and DCLM, raise benchmark scores by discarding roughly nine tenths of the crawl with model-based filters. ## 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. [**Using DeepSpeed and Megatron to Train Megatron-Turing NLG 530B, A Large-Scale Generative Language Model arXiv:2201.11990**Shaden Smith, Mostofa Patwary, Brandon Norick, et al.*2022 · 615 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/smith-2022-using-deepspeed-megatron-train-megatron/) 2. **[An Empirical Study of Mamba-based Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.07887) arXiv:2406.07887 · no summary yet**Roger Waleffe et al.*2024 · 67 citations* 3. **[Nemotron-CC: Transforming Common Crawl into a Refined Long-Horizon Pretraining Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/su-2025-nemotron-cc-transforming-common-crawl/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Dan Su, Kezhi Kong, Ying Lin, et al.*2025 · 65 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Mostofa Patwary](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mostofa-patwary/) ×2 - [Bryan Catanzaro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bryan-catanzaro/) - [Dan Su](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-su/) - [Jared Casper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jared-casper/) - [Joseph Jennings](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joseph-jennings/) - [Kezhi Kong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kezhi-kong/) - [Mohammad Shoeybi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-shoeybi/) - [Rewon Child](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rewon-child/) - [Samyam Rajbhandari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samyam-rajbhandari/) - [Shrimai Prabhumoye](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shrimai-prabhumoye/) - [Vijay Korthikanti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vijay-korthikanti/) - [Ying Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ying-lin/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,600 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [283 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/brandon-norick/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026