--- title: "Elliot Catt — author profile and papers" description: "Elliot Catt, Australian National University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elliot-catt/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elliot-catt/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Elliot Catt # Elliot Catt Elliot Catt 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/), [Efficient models & compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/); often with [Anian Ruoss](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anian-ruoss/), [Gregoire Deletang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregoire-deletang/), [Joel Veness](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joel-veness/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5020795308) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9411-927X) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5020795308) · [39 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5020795308) · [984 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5020795308&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elliot-catt/#papers) · [🔗 2,277 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elliot-catt/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3960](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/40/#star-3960) 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=Elliot+Catt) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Elliot+Catt) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Elliot+Catt) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Elliot+Catt) ## Affiliations [🎓**Australian National University** Canberra · Australia 2017–2024 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/australian-national-university/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2023–2024 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) 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. ## Topics [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Efficient models & compression (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deletang-2023-language-modeling-compression/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deletang-2022-neural-networks-chomsky-hierarchy/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Language Modeling Is Compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deletang-2023-language-modeling-compression/)** *(2023 · 89 citations)* The paper revisits the old equivalence between prediction and lossless compression and uses it to evaluate large pretrained models. 2. **[Neural Networks and the Chomsky Hierarchy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deletang-2022-neural-networks-chomsky-hierarchy/)** *(2022 · 66 citations)* The authors investigate whether the theory of computation, specifically the Chomsky hierarchy, can predict where the ability of neural networks to generalize out of distribution ends. ## Also in our library 1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Anian Ruoss](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anian-ruoss/) ×2 - [Gregoire Deletang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregoire-deletang/) ×2 - [Joel Veness](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joel-veness/) ×2 - [Jordi Grau-Moya](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jordi-grau-moya/) ×2 - [Li Kevin Wenliang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/li-kevin-wenliang/) ×2 - [Marcus Hutter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marcus-hutter/) ×2 - [Tim Genewein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-genewein/) ×2 - [Paul-Ambroise Duquenne](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-ambroise-duquenne/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2,277 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [141 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elliot-catt/cited-by/).