--- title: "David Bau · Northeastern University — author profile and papers" description: "David Bau, Northeastern University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 32 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-bau/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-bau/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / David Bau # David Bau David Bau has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/); often with [Arnab Sen Sharma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arnab-sen-sharma/), [Jiuding Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiuding-sun/), [Koyena Pal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/koyena-pal/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5033305045) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1744-6765) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q87252044) · [**h-index 32**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5033305045) · [106 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5033305045) · [13,913 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5033305045&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-bau/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,328 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-bau/cited-by/) · [7 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7253](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/73/#star-7253) 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=David+Bau) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=David+Bau) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=David+Bau) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=David+Bau) ## Affiliations [🎓**Northeastern University** Boston · United States 2022–2026 · 56 papersEmployment since 2022 · Assistant Professor, Khoury College of Computer Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2015–2021 · 23 papersEducationEmployment 2015–2021 · Research Assistatnt, CSAIL](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Cambridge · United States 2017–2025 · 19 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 1993–2022 · 12 papersEmployment 1993–2000](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2004–2016 · 4 papersEmployment 2004–2016 · Staff Software Engineer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Phillips Exeter Academy** Exeter · United States 2014–2015 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/03cde6p20) · [🎓**Cornell University** Ithaca · United States 1992–2001 · 2 papersEducation 1992–1994 · Masters of Science, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cornell-university/) · [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 1988–2022 · 1 paperEducation 1988–1992 · Bachelor of Arts, MathematicsEmployment 2021–2022 · Postdoctoral Associate, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) 🏛️**National Deep Inference Fabric** Boston · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2024Employment since 2024 · Director 🏛️**Harvard College** Cambridge · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 1988–1992Education 1988–1992 From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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).[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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-bau/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-bau/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-bau/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Future Lens: Anticipating Subsequent Tokens from a Single Hidden State](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pal-2023-future-lens-anticipating-subsequent-tokens/)** *(2023 · 49 citations)* The paper asks whether a transformer's internal state for one token carries information about tokens beyond the immediate next one, specifically positions t+2 and later. Working with GPT-J-6B, the authors compare three ways of reading that information out of a single hidden state taken at one layer and one position. 2. **[Locating and Editing Factual Associations in Mamba](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2024-locating-editing-factual-associations-mamba/)** *(2024 · 18 citations)* Studies of transformer LMs have found that factual recall is concentrated in particular modules at specific token positions, and that one rank-one weight change can overwrite a stored fact. 3. **[The Quest for the Right Mediator: Surveying Mechanistic Interpretability for NLP Through the Lens of Causal Mediation Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mueller-2026-quest-right-mediator-surveying-mechanistic/)** *(2026 · 7 citations)* Research on mechanistic interpretability (MI) of language models is fragmented. Studies use bespoke evaluations, lack a shared theoretical basis, and rarely define the elementary causal units that make up a "mechanism." This survey, published in Computational Linguistics, treats MI as recovering causal graphs that… ## All works 10 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. **[Network Dissection: Quantifying Interpretability of Deep Visual Representations ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2017.354) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**David Anthony Bau et al.*2017 · 1,396 citations* 2. **[Locating and Editing Factual Associations in GPT ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.05262) arXiv:2202.05262 · no summary yet**Kevin Meng et al.*2022 · 1,124 citations* 3. **[Erasing Concepts from Diffusion Models ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv51070.2023.00230) IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · no summary yet**Rohit Gandikota et al.*2023 · 277 citations* 4. **[Function Vectors in Large Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15213) arXiv:2310.15213 · no summary yet**Eric Todd et al.*2023 · 127 citations* 5. **[Linearity of Relation Decoding in Transformer Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.09124) arXiv:2308.09124 · no summary yet**Evan Hernandez et al.*2023 · 82 citations* 6. **[Future Lens: Anticipating Subsequent Tokens from a Single Hidden State](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pal-2023-future-lens-anticipating-subsequent-tokens/) [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/)**Koyena Pal, Jiuding Sun, Andrew Yuan, et al.*2023 · 49 citations* 7. [**Locating and Editing Factual Associations in Mamba arXiv:2404.03646**Arnab Sen Sharma, David Atkinson, David Bau*2024 · 18 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2024-locating-editing-factual-associations-mamba/) 8. **[Machine Unlearning Doesn't Do What You Think: Lessons for Generative AI Policy, Research, and Practice ↗](https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5060253) SSRN Electronic Journal · no summary yet**A. Feder Cooper et al.*2025 · 12 citations* 9. **[The Quest for the Right Mediator: Surveying Mechanistic Interpretability for NLP Through the Lens of Causal Mediation Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mueller-2026-quest-right-mediator-surveying-mechanistic/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Aaron Mueller, Jannik Brinkmann, Millicent Li, et al.*2026 · 7 citations* 10. **[Shared Lexical Task Representations Explain Behavioral Variability In LLMs ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22027) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Zhuonan Yang et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Arnab Sen Sharma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arnab-sen-sharma/) ×2 - [Jiuding Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiuding-sun/) ×2 - [Koyena Pal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/koyena-pal/) ×2 - [Aaron Mueller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-mueller/) - [Byron C. Wallace](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/byron-c-wallace/) - [Samuel Marks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-marks/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/): [Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/2026/) - [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/): [CoNLL 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/2023/) - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) - SSRN Electronic Journal ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,328 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [195 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-bau/cited-by/). 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