--- title: "David Duvenaud — author profile and papers in our library" description: "David Duvenaud, University of British Columbia: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2023), h-index 40 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-duvenaud/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-duvenaud/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / David Duvenaud # David Duvenaud David Duvenaud has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Amanda Askell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amanda-askell/), [Esin Durmus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esin-durmus/), [Graeme Hirst](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/graeme-hirst/). 2 papers in our library · 2019–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5030409494) · [**h-index 40**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5030409494) · [101 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5030409494) · [9,624 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5030409494&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-duvenaud/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 438 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-duvenaud/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3282](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/33/#star-3282) 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+Duvenaud) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=David+Duvenaud) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=David+Duvenaud) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=David+Duvenaud) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Toronto** Toronto · Canada 2016–2026 · 46 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-toronto/) · [🎓**University of British Columbia** Vancouver · Canada 2008–2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-british-columbia/) · [🔬**Vector Institute** Toronto · Canada 2017–2023 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/vector-institute/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2011–2014 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 2015–2016 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🎓**University of Oxford** Oxford · United Kingdom 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oxford/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2020–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) 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. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Safety Research · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 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 David Duvenaud's papers of 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2023-towards-understanding-sycophancy-language-models/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper David Duvenaud's papers of 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ethayarajh-2019-understanding-undesirable-word-embedding-associations/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2023-towards-understanding-sycophancy-language-models/)** *(2023 · 355 citations)* The paper looks at sycophancy: AI assistants telling users what they seem to want to hear instead of what is accurate. 2. **[Understanding Undesirable Word Embedding Associations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ethayarajh-2019-understanding-undesirable-word-embedding-associations/)** *(2019 · 171 citations)* Word vectors are known to encode socially unwanted associations such as gender stereotypes, but the tools for detecting and removing them lack theoretical grounding. ## All works 4 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. **[Convolutional Networks on Graphs for Learning Molecular Fingerprints ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.09292) arXiv:1509.09292 · no summary yet**David Duvenaud et al.*2015 · 940 citations* 2. [**Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models arXiv:2310.13548**Mrinank Sharma, Meg Tong, Tomasz Korbak, et al.*2023 · 355 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2023-towards-understanding-sycophancy-language-models/) 3. **[Understanding Undesirable Word Embedding Associations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ethayarajh-2019-understanding-undesirable-word-embedding-associations/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Kawin Ethayarajh, David Duvenaud, Graeme Hirst*2019 · 171 citations* 4. **[Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05566) arXiv:2401.05566 · no summary yet**Evan Hubinger et al.*2024 · 108 citations* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Amanda Askell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amanda-askell/) - [Esin Durmus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esin-durmus/) - [Graeme Hirst](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/graeme-hirst/) - [Samuel R. Bowman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-r-bowman/) - [Scott Johnston](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/scott-johnston/) - [Tomasz Korbak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tomasz-korbak/) - [Zac Hatfield-Dodds](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zac-hatfield-dodds/) ## 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 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2019/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 438 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [35 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-duvenaud/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026