--- title: "Dirk Weissenborn · Google — author profile and papers" description: "Dirk Weissenborn, Google: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2020), h-index 19 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dirk-weissenborn/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dirk-weissenborn/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Dirk Weissenborn # Dirk Weissenborn Dirk Weissenborn has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2020, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/); often with [Alexander Kolesnikov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-kolesnikov/), [Georg Heigold](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/georg-heigold/), [Jakob Uszkoreit](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakob-uszkoreit/). 2 papers in our library · 2017–2020 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5038019602) · [**h-index 19**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5038019602) · [36 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5038019602) · [23,921 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5038019602&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dirk-weissenborn/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2,618 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dirk-weissenborn/cited-by/) · [5 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #101](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/2/#star-101) 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=Dirk+Weissenborn) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Dirk+Weissenborn) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Dirk+Weissenborn) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Dirk+Weissenborn) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2019–2022 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🔬**German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence** Kaiserslautern · Germany 2015–2021 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/german-research-centre-for-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**Technische Universität Dresden** Dresden · Germany 2013–2015 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technische-universitat-dresden/) · [🔬**Biotechnologisches Zentrum** Dresden · Germany 2014–2015 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/046b28292) 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Transformer and attention · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/transformer/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dirk-weissenborn/year/2020/) ### 2010s [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dirk-weissenborn/year/2017/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dosovitskiy-2020-image-worth-16x16-words-transformers/)** *(2020 · 23,726 citations)* In 2020, image recognition still relied mainly on convolutional networks. Earlier efforts to use self-attention in vision either kept a CNN backbone or used custom attention patterns that ran slowly on modern accelerators. The authors ask whether an almost unchanged NLP-style Transformer encoder can classify images… 2. **[Making Neural QA as Simple as Possible but not Simpler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/weissenborn-2017-making-neural-qa-simple-possible/)** *(2017 · 122 citations)* Large extractive QA datasets such as SQuAD and NewsQA prompted many neural reading models. These models grew steadily more elaborate, especially in their layers for word-by-word interaction between question and context, yet they were seldom compared against a strong simple baseline. Weissenborn, Wiese and Seiffe… ## All works 7 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. [**An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale arXiv:2010.11929**Alexey Dosovitskiy, Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, et al.*2020 · 23,726 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dosovitskiy-2020-image-worth-16x16-words-transformers/) 2. **[Object-Centric Learning with Slot Attention ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.15055) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Francesco Locatello et al.*2020 · 255 citations* 3. **[Neural Domain Adaptation for Biomedical Question Answering ↗](https://aclanthology.org/K17-1029/) Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2017) · no summary yet**Georg Wiese, Dirk Weissenborn, Mariana Neves*2017 · 138 citations* 4. [**Making Neural QA as Simple as Possible but not Simpler arXiv:1703.04816**Dirk Weissenborn, Georg Wiese, Laura Seiffe*2017 · 122 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/weissenborn-2017-making-neural-qa-simple-possible/) 5. **[Differentiable Patch Selection for Image Recognition ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr46437.2021.00238) 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**Jean-Baptiste Cordonnier et al.*2021 · 110 citations* 6. **[Scaling Autoregressive Video Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02634) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Dirk Weissenborn, Oscar Täckström, Jakob Uszkoreit*2019 · 35 citations* 7. **[Contextualized Role Interaction for Neural Machine Translation ↗](https://openalex.org/W2942104566) no summary yet**Dirk Weissenborn et al.*2018 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alexander Kolesnikov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-kolesnikov/) - [Georg Heigold](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/georg-heigold/) - [Jakob Uszkoreit](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakob-uszkoreit/) - [Lucas Beyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucas-beyer/) - [Mostafa Dehghani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mostafa-dehghani/) - [Neil Houlsby](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/neil-houlsby/) - [Thomas Unterthiner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-unterthiner/) - [Xiaohua Zhai](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaohua-zhai/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - Proceedings of the 21st Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL 2017) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2,618 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [256 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dirk-weissenborn/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026