--- title: "Ekin Akyürek — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Ekin Akyürek, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ekin-akyurek/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ekin-akyurek/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ekin Akyürek # Ekin Akyürek Ekin Akyürek has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Ashwin Kalyan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashwin-kalyan/), [Dale Schuurmans](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dale-schuurmans/), [Denny Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/denny-zhou/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5071734030) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5166-4689) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q141203667) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5071734030) · [30 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5071734030) · [458 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5071734030&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ekin-akyurek/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 514 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ekin-akyurek/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4136](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/42/#star-4136) 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=Ekin+Aky%C3%BCrek) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ekin+Aky%C3%BCrek) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ekin+Aky%C3%BCrek) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ekin+Aky%C3%BCrek) ## Affiliations [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2020–2025 · 19 papersEmployment*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🔬**MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Cambridge · United States 2022–2024 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) · [🎓**Boston University** Boston · United States 2023–2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/boston-university/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2022 · 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. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 4 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/) 🧭 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 Ekin Akyürek's papers of 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/akyurek-2023-rl4f-generating-natural-language-feedback/) · [**2022** 1 paper Ekin Akyürek's papers of 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/akyurek-2022-learning-algorithm-context-learning-investigations/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[What learning algorithm is in-context learning? Investigations with linear models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/akyurek-2022-learning-algorithm-context-learning-investigations/)** *(2022 · 225 citations)* This paper asks how transformers manage in-context learning (ICL), meaning how they produce accurate predictions from labeled examples in the prompt without any weight updates. 2. **[RL4F: Generating Natural Language Feedback with Reinforcement Learning for Repairing Model Outputs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/akyurek-2023-rl4f-generating-natural-language-feedback/)** *(2023 · 87 citations)* Large language models still make errors, and natural language critiques can help them fix their outputs. Human critiques are costly and too slow for online use. Earlier learned critique generators also assumed the downstream model could be fine-tuned, which is not possible for closed models like GPT-3 or ChatGPT.… ## 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. [**What learning algorithm is in-context learning? Investigations with linear models arXiv:2211.15661**Ekin Akyürek, Dale Schuurmans, Jacob Andreas, et al.*2022 · 225 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/akyurek-2022-learning-algorithm-context-learning-investigations/) 2. **[Pre-Trained Language Models for Interactive Decision-Making ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.01771) arXiv:2202.01771 · no summary yet**Shuang Li et al.*2022 · 119 citations* 3. **[RL4F: Generating Natural Language Feedback with Reinforcement Learning for Repairing Model Outputs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/akyurek-2023-rl4f-generating-natural-language-feedback/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Afra Feyza Akyurek, Ekin Akyurek, Ashwin Kalyan, et al.*2023 · 87 citations* 4. **[The Surprising Effectiveness of Test-Time Training for Few-Shot Learning ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07279) arXiv:2411.07279 · no summary yet**Ekin Akyürek et al.*2024 · 32 citations* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ashwin Kalyan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashwin-kalyan/) - [Dale Schuurmans](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dale-schuurmans/) - [Denny Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/denny-zhou/) - [Derry Tanti Wijaya](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/derry-tanti-wijaya/) - [Jacob Andreas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacob-andreas/) - [Niket Tandon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/niket-tandon/) - [Peter Clark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-clark/) - [Tengyu Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tengyu-ma/) ## 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 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 514 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [57 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ekin-akyurek/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026