--- title: "Fatih Ilhan — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Fatih Ilhan, Georgia Institute of Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fatih-ilhan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fatih-ilhan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Fatih Ilhan # Fatih Ilhan Fatih Ilhan has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/), [Efficient models & compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/); often with [Fartash Faghri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fartash-faghri/), [Ling Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ling-liu/), [Mehrdad Farajtabar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehrdad-farajtabar/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5007420449) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0173-7544) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130957992) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5007420449) · [42 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5007420449) · [279 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5007420449&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fatih-ilhan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 8 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fatih-ilhan/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12253](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/123/#star-12253) 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=Fatih+Ilhan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Fatih+Ilhan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Fatih+Ilhan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Fatih+Ilhan) ## Affiliations [🎓**Georgia Institute of Technology** Atlanta · United States 2023–2026 · 16 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgia-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Bilkent University** Ankara · Türkiye 2020–2023 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/bilkent-university/) · [🏢**ODTÜ Teknokent (Turkey)** Ankara · Türkiye 2021–2023 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/04a197k40) 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Efficient models & compression · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fatih-ilhan/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Unmasking On-Policy Distillation: Where It Helps, Where It Hurts, and Why](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/armandpour-2026-unmasking-policy-distillation-where-helps/)** *(2026 · 7 citations)* On-policy distillation gives a student model dense, per-token supervision, either from a larger external teacher or from the student itself conditioned on privileged context such as a correct solution. 2. **[H3Fusion: Helpful, Harmless, Honest Fusion of Aligned LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tekin-2026-h3fusion-helpful-harmless-honest-fusion/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Aligning an LLM to be helpful, harmless and honest (HHH) at once is difficult. Tuning for one property often hurts another: safety tuning can make a model overly cautious, and pushing helpfulness can increase hallucinations. H3Fusion addresses this by merging three separately aligned copies of one base model into a… ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Fartash Faghri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fartash-faghri/) - [Ling Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ling-liu/) - [Mehrdad Farajtabar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehrdad-farajtabar/) - [Minsik Cho](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minsik-cho/) - [Tiansheng Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tiansheng-huang/) - [Yizhe Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yizhe-zhang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 8 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fatih-ilhan/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026