--- title: "Daniel Paleka · ETH Zurich — author profile and papers" description: "Daniel Paleka, ETH Zurich: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-paleka/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-paleka/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Daniel Paleka # Daniel Paleka Daniel Paleka has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Aaquib Syed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaquib-syed/), [Abulhair Saparov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abulhair-saparov/), [Aran Komatsuzaki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aran-komatsuzaki/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5083157679) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5083157679) · [21 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5083157679) · [275 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5083157679&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-paleka/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 309 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-paleka/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5184](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/52/#star-5184) 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=Daniel+Paleka) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Daniel+Paleka) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Daniel+Paleka) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Daniel+Paleka) ## Affiliations [🎓**ETH Zurich** Zurich · Switzerland 2022–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/eth-zurich/) 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 9 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/safety-risk-reliability-and-quality/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-paleka/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-paleka/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Refusal in Language Models Is Mediated by a Single Direction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/arditi-2024-refusal-language-models-mediated-single/)** *(2024 · 196 citations)* Chat LLMs are safety-tuned to decline harmful requests, but how this behavior works inside the model is poorly understood. 2. **[Foundational Challenges in Assuring Alignment and Safety of Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/anwar-2024-foundational-challenges-assuring-alignment-safety/)** *(2024 · 87 citations)* This agenda-style paper by Anwar and a large multi-institution team asks what still prevents large language models from being reliably aligned and safe. 3. **[ARB: Advanced Reasoning Benchmark for Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sawada-2023-arb-advanced-reasoning-benchmark-large/)** *(2023 · 66 citations)* Many popular LLM benchmarks are saturating. Models like GPT-4 now score highly on them even though they still lack expert-level competence. ARB (Advanced Reasoning Benchmark) offers a harder test built from graduate-level and professional problems in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and law. The sources were… ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aaquib Syed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaquib-syed/) - [Abulhair Saparov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abulhair-saparov/) - [Aran Komatsuzaki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aran-komatsuzaki/) - [Ekdeep Singh Lubana](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ekdeep-singh-lubana/) - [John J. Nay](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-j-nay/) - [Miles Turpin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/miles-turpin/) - [Neel Nanda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/neel-nanda/) - [Nina Panickssery](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nina-panickssery/) - [Peter Hase](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-hase/) - [Stephen Casper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-casper/) - [Wes Gurnee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wes-gurnee/) - [Zhaowei Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhaowei-zhang/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 309 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [95 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-paleka/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026