--- title: "Edward Hughes — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Edward Hughes, Queen Mary University of London: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 22 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/edward-hughes/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/edward-hughes/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Edward Hughes # Edward Hughes Edward Hughes has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026; often with [Anja Surina](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anja-surina/), [Feryal Behbahani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/feryal-behbahani/), [Kaloyan Aleksiev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaloyan-aleksiev/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5006947993) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2434-2334) · [**h-index 22**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5006947993) · [297 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5006947993) · [2,173 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5006947993&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/edward-hughes/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 62 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/edward-hughes/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11412](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/115/#star-11412) 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=Edward+Hughes) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Edward+Hughes) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Edward+Hughes) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Edward+Hughes) ## Affiliations [🎓**Queen Mary University of London** London · United Kingdom 2006–2025 · 21 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/queen-mary-university-of-london/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2019–2025 · 18 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🏢**Google** London · United Kingdom 2023–2025 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-united-kingdom/) · [🎓**Royal Holloway University of London** Egham · United Kingdom 1992–2006 · 22 papers](https://ror.org/04g2vpn86) · [🎓**Durham University** Durham · United Kingdom 1951–1965 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/durham-university/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2018–2020 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Carleton University** Ottawa · Canada 1974–1998 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carleton-university/) · [🎓**University of London** London · United Kingdom 2013 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-london/) · [🎓**University of Pittsburgh** Pittsburgh · United States 1992–2002 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pittsburgh/) · [🎓**California State University, Long Beach** Long Beach · United States 1992–1995 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/california-state-university-long-beach/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 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 8 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Information Systems and Management · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/information-systems-and-management/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/edward-hughes/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/edward-hughes/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Open-Endedness is Essential for Artificial Superhuman Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hughes-2024-open-endedness-essential-artificial-superhuman/)** *(2024 · 14 citations)* This position paper from Google DeepMind (ICML 2024) asks what an AI system would need in order to keep generating new knowledge by itself. 2. **[Training AI Scientists to Replicate Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/falck-2026-training-ai-scientists-replicate/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Replicating published results is central to trustworthy science, but it is hard for AI agents. Papers leave out details, current models are mostly trained on well-defined problems, and replication offers no single metric to optimise. The authors built Replica, an automatically constructed task space. In each task, a… ## 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. **[Learning to Understand Goal Specifications by Modelling Reward ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.01946) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Dzmitry Bahdanau et al.*2018 · 91 citations* 2. [**Open-Endedness is Essential for Artificial Superhuman Intelligence arXiv:2406.04268**Edward Hughes, Michael Dennis, Jack Parker-Holder, et al.*2024 · 14 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hughes-2024-open-endedness-essential-artificial-superhuman/) 3. **[Jointly Learning "What" and "How" from Instructions and Goal-States. ↗](https://openalex.org/W2941951382) International Conference on Learning Representations · no summary yet**Dzmitry Bahdanau et al.*2018 · 3 citations* 4. [**Training AI Scientists to Replicate Research arXiv:2608.13331**Damon Falck, Samer Sabri, Anja Surina, et al.*2026 · 2 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/falck-2026-training-ai-scientists-replicate/) ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Anja Surina](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anja-surina/) - [Feryal Behbahani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/feryal-behbahani/) - [Kaloyan Aleksiev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaloyan-aleksiev/) - [Louis Kirsch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/louis-kirsch/) - [Tim Rocktaschel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-rocktaschel/) - [Tom Schaul](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-schaul/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - International Conference on Learning Representations ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 62 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [18 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/edward-hughes/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026