--- title: "Eric Todd · Northeastern University — author profile and papers" description: "Eric Todd, Northeastern University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2026), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-todd/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-todd/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Eric Todd # Eric Todd Eric Todd has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/); often with [Aaron Mueller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-mueller/), [Arnab Sen Sharma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arnab-sen-sharma/), [David Bau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-bau/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5007838694) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5007838694) · [9 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5007838694) · [21 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5007838694&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-todd/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 128 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-todd/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7357](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/74/#star-7357) 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=Eric+Todd) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Eric+Todd) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Eric+Todd) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Eric+Todd) ## Affiliations [🎓**Northeastern University** Boston · United States 2023–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northeastern-university/) 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 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 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-todd/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-todd/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Function Vectors in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/todd-2023-function-vectors-large-language-models/)** *(2023 · 127 citations)* The paper asks whether autoregressive transformer LMs internally store an abstract representation of the task shown in in-context learning (ICL) prompts. 2. **[The Quest for the Right Mediator: Surveying Mechanistic Interpretability for NLP Through the Lens of Causal Mediation Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mueller-2026-quest-right-mediator-surveying-mechanistic/)** *(2026 · 7 citations)* Research on mechanistic interpretability (MI) of language models is fragmented. Studies use bespoke evaluations, lack a shared theoretical basis, and rarely define the elementary causal units that make up a "mechanism." This survey, published in Computational Linguistics, treats MI as recovering causal graphs that… ## All works 3 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. [**Function Vectors in Large Language Models arXiv:2310.15213**Eric Todd, Millicent L. Li, Arnab Sen Sharma, et al.*2023 · 127 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/todd-2023-function-vectors-large-language-models/) 2. **[The Quest for the Right Mediator: Surveying Mechanistic Interpretability for NLP Through the Lens of Causal Mediation Analysis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mueller-2026-quest-right-mediator-surveying-mechanistic/) [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/)**Aaron Mueller, Jannik Brinkmann, Millicent Li, et al.*2026 · 7 citations* 3. **[Shared Lexical Task Representations Explain Behavioral Variability In LLMs ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.22027) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Zhuonan Yang et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aaron Mueller](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-mueller/) ×2 - [Arnab Sen Sharma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arnab-sen-sharma/) ×2 - [David Bau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-bau/) ×2 - [Byron C. Wallace](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/byron-c-wallace/) - [Can Rager](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/can-rager/) - [Jiuding Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiuding-sun/) - [Koyena Pal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/koyena-pal/) - [Millicent Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/millicent-li/) - [Samuel Marks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-marks/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/): [Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 128 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [28 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-todd/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026