--- title: "Erik Jones — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Erik Jones, Constellation Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/erik-jones/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/erik-jones/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Erik Jones # Erik Jones Erik Jones has 2 papers in our library, in 2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Aditi Raghunathan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aditi-raghunathan/), [Anca Dragan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anca-dragan/), [Arindam Mitra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arindam-mitra/). 2 papers in our library · 2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5101585214) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1494-9615) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59825293) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5101585214) · [9 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101585214) · [1,196 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5101585214&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/erik-jones/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 339 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/erik-jones/cited-by/) · [10 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5962](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/60/#star-5962) 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=Erik+Jones) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Erik+Jones) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Erik+Jones) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Erik+Jones) ## Affiliations [🏢**Constellation Technology** Largo · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/051qkf035) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2023–2025 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2018–2020 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 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 6 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/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [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/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/erik-jones/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mitra-2023-orca-2-teaching-small-language/)** *(2023 · 162 citations)* Small language models (below roughly 10B parameters) typically trail frontier LLMs in zero-shot reasoning. 2. **[Automatically Auditing Large Language Models via Discrete Optimization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jones-2023-automatically-auditing-large-language-models/)** *(2023 · 89 citations)* Testing language models for harmful or bizarre behavior before release is hard. Such failures can be rare, and people struggle to write the prompts that trigger them. Jones et al. treat auditing as a search problem. The auditor writes a scoring function over a prompt and its greedy completion, then looks for… ## All works 12 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. [**Orca 2: Teaching Small Language Models How to Reason arXiv:2311.11045**Arindam Mitra, Luciano Del Corro, Shweti Mahajan, et al.*2023 · 162 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mitra-2023-orca-2-teaching-small-language/) 2. **[Robust Encodings: A Framework for Combating Adversarial Typos ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.245/) Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Erik Jones et al.*2020 · 126 citations* 3. [**Automatically Auditing Large Language Models via Discrete Optimization arXiv:2303.04381**Erik Jones, Anca Dragan, Aditi Raghunathan, et al.*2023 · 89 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jones-2023-automatically-auditing-large-language-models/) 4. **[Capturing Failures of Large Language Models Via Human Cognitive Biases ↗](https://doi.org/10.52202/068431-0856) neural information processing systems · no summary yet**Erik Jones, Jacob Steinhardt*2022 · 82 citations* 5. **[Feedback Loops With Language Models Drive In-Context Reward Hacking ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.06627) arXiv:2402.06627 · no summary yet**Alexander Pan et al.*2024 · 26 citations* 6. **[Mass-Producing Failures of Multimodal Systems with Language Models ↗](https://doi.org/10.52202/075280-1275) neural information processing systems · no summary yet**Shengbang Tong, Erik Jones, Jacob Steinhardt*2023 · 23 citations* 7. **[Selective Classification Can Magnify Disparities Across Groups ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.14134) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Erik Jones et al.*2020 · 15 citations* 8. **[Adversaries Can Misuse Combinations of Safe Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14595) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Erik Jones, Anca D. Dragan, Jacob Steinhardt*2024 · 5 citations* 9. **[Forecasting Rare Language Model Behaviors ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16797) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Erik Jones et al.*2025 · 3 citations* 10. **[Uncovering Gaps in How Humans and LLMs Interpret Subjective Language ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04113) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Erik Jones, Arjun Patrawala, Jacob Steinhardt*2025 · 1 citation* 11. **[LLM Layers Immediately Correct Each Other ↗](https://doi.org/10.52202/085713-4643) neural information processing systems · no summary yet**Arjun Patrawala et al.*2025* 12. **[Task-Agnostic Robust Encodings for Combating Adversarial Typos ↗](https://openalex.org/W2986649174) no summary yet**Erik Jones et al.*2019* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aditi Raghunathan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aditi-raghunathan/) - [Anca Dragan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anca-dragan/) - [Arindam Mitra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arindam-mitra/) - [Hamid Palangi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hamid-palangi/) - [Jacob Steinhardt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacob-steinhardt/) - [Kriti Aggarwal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kriti-aggarwal/) - [Luciano Del Corro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luciano-del-corro/) - [Sahaj Agarwal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sahaj-agarwal/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - neural information processing systems ×3 - Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 339 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [85 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/erik-jones/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026