--- title: "Chris Wendler — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Chris Wendler, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-wendler/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-wendler/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Chris Wendler # Chris Wendler Chris Wendler has 3 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Robert West](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-west/), [Veniamin Veselovsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/veniamin-veselovsky/), [Giovanni Monea](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-monea/). 3 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5073622492) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5073622492) · [14 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5073622492) · [101 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5073622492&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-wendler/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 208 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-wendler/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5589](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/56/#star-5589) 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=Chris+Wendler) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Chris+Wendler) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Chris+Wendler) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Chris+Wendler) ## Affiliations [🎓**École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne** Lausanne · Switzerland 2024–2025 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ecole-polytechnique-federale-de-lausanne/) · [🎓**ETH Zurich** Zurich · Switzerland 2019–2024 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/eth-zurich/) · [🎓**Northeastern University** Boston · United States 2025–2026 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution 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).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](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 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-wendler/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-wendler/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-wendler/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Do Llamas Work in English? On the Latent Language of Multilingual Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wendler-2024-do-llamas-work-english-latent/)** *(2024 · 177 citations)* The paper asks whether multilingual LLMs trained mostly on English text silently route non-English processing through English. 2. **[Separating Tongue from Thought: Activation Patching Reveals Language-Agnostic Concept Representations in Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dumas-2025-separating-tongue-thought-activation-patching/)** *(2025 · 27 citations)* The paper asks whether multilingual LLMs hold concepts in a shared, language-independent form or keep a separate version of each concept per language. 3. **[Localized Cultural Knowledge is Conserved and Controllable in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/veselovsky-2026-localized-cultural-knowledge-is-conserved/)** *(2026 · 7 citations)* Large language models (LLMs) often answer non-English prompts as if the user lived in an English-speaking, largely American setting, even when they hold the relevant local knowledge. ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Do Llamas Work in English? On the Latent Language of Multilingual Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wendler-2024-do-llamas-work-english-latent/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Chris Wendler, Veniamin Veselovsky, Giovanni Monea, et al.*2024 · 177 citations* 2. **[Do Llamas Work in English? On the Latent Language of Multilingual Transformers ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.10588) arXiv:2402.10588 · no summary yet**Chris Wendler et al.*2024 · 96 citations* 3. **[Separating Tongue from Thought: Activation Patching Reveals Language-Agnostic Concept Representations in Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dumas-2025-separating-tongue-thought-activation-patching/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Clément Dumas, Chris Wendler, Veniamin Veselovsky, et al.*2025 · 27 citations* 4. **[Localized Cultural Knowledge is Conserved and Controllable in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/veselovsky-2026-localized-cultural-knowledge-is-conserved/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Veniamin Veselovsky, Berke Argın, Benedikt Stroebl, et al.*2026 · 7 citations* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Robert West](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-west/) ×3 - [Veniamin Veselovsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/veniamin-veselovsky/) ×3 - [Giovanni Monea](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/giovanni-monea/) ×2 - [Thomas L. Griffiths](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-l-griffiths/) ## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/), [ACL 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2024/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 208 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [36 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-wendler/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026