--- title: "Despoina Magka — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Despoina Magka: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/despoina-magka/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/despoina-magka/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Despoina Magka # Despoina Magka Despoina Magka has 2 papers in our library, in 2025, most of them on [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Amar Budhiraja](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amar-budhiraja/), [Bingchen Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bingchen-zhao/), [Deepak Nathani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deepak-nathani/). 2 papers in our library · 2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5020439365) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5020439365) · [46 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5020439365) · [206 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5020439365&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/despoina-magka/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 50 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/despoina-magka/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9590](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/96/#star-9590) 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=Despoina+Magka) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Despoina+Magka) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Despoina+Magka) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Despoina+Magka) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Oxford** Oxford · United Kingdom 2010–2014 · 15 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oxford/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 · 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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/despoina-magka/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[MLGym: A New Framework and Benchmark for Advancing AI Research Agents](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/nathani-2025-mlgym-new-framework-benchmark/)** *(2025 · 50 citations)* LLM agents are now used for software and ML engineering. Yet there has been no shared environment for testing how they handle open-ended AI research, and none that supports training them with learning algorithms. The authors introduce MLGym, a framework that exposes research tasks through a Gym interface. Agents work… 2. **[The Automated LLM Speedrunning Benchmark: Reproducing NanoGPT Improvements](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhao-2025-automated-llm-speedrunning-benchmark/)** *(2025 · 4 citations)* The paper asks whether current AI research agents can reproduce known results in LLM training, which is a prerequisite for automating scientific research. ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Amar Budhiraja](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amar-budhiraja/) - [Bingchen Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bingchen-zhao/) - [Deepak Nathani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/deepak-nathani/) - [Dieuwke Hupkes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dieuwke-hupkes/) - [Lovish Madaan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lovish-madaan/) - [Minqi Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minqi-jiang/) - [Nikolay Bashlykov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolay-bashlykov/) - [Roberta Raileanu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/roberta-raileanu/) - [Tatiana Shavrina](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tatiana-shavrina/) - [Xian Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xian-li/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 50 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [21 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/despoina-magka/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026