--- title: "Gaurav Srivastava — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Gaurav Srivastava, University of Central Florida: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaurav-srivastava/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaurav-srivastava/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Gaurav Srivastava # Gaurav Srivastava Gaurav Srivastava has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Xuan Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuan-wang/), [Meng Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meng-lu/), [Shuxiang Cao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuxiang-cao/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5024315328) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3488-6220) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5024315328) · [86 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5024315328) · [1,360 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5024315328&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaurav-srivastava/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 21 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaurav-srivastava/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9872](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/99/#star-9872) 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=Gaurav+Srivastava) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Gaurav+Srivastava) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Gaurav+Srivastava) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Gaurav+Srivastava) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Central Florida** Orlando · United States 2023–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-central-florida/) · [🔬**Bhabha Atomic Research Centre** Mumbai · India 2001–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://ror.org/05w6wfp17) · [🎓**Delhi Technological University** New Delhi · India 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/delhi-technological-university/) · [🎓**Homi Bhabha National Institute** Mumbai · India 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/02bv3zr67) · [🎓**Virginia Tech** Blacksburg · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/virginia-tech/) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur** Kanpur · India 2002–2023 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-kanpur/) · [🎓**Bundelkhand University** Jhānsi · India 1989–2022 · 12 papers](https://ror.org/0003ewr82) · [🏛️**Zoological Survey of India** Kolkata · India 1992–2003 · 11 papers](https://ror.org/00h6p6a20) · [🔬**Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences** Lucknow · India 2009–2025 · 8 papers](https://ror.org/05xc5re08) · [🎓**Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research** Ghaziabad · India 2020–2025 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/053rcsq61) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 17 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 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.[Reasoning · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaurav-srivastava/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaurav-srivastava/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Towards Reasoning Ability of Small Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/srivastava-2025-towards-reasoning-ability-small-language/)** *(2025 · 16 citations)* The paper questions the long-held view that reasoning appears only in very large models (around 100B parameters). 2. **[DEBATE, TRAIN, EVOLVE: Self-Evolution of Language Model Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/srivastava-2025-debate-train-evolve-self-evolution/)** *(2025 · 7 citations)* Large language models increasingly hit a data ceiling, which raises the question of whether they can improve reasoning without new labeled data. 3. **[Do LLMs Overthink Basic Math Reasoning? Benchmarking the Accuracy-Efficiency Tradeoff in Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/srivastava-2026-do-llms-overthink-basic-math/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* The paper investigates "overthinking": LLMs, especially reasoning-tuned ones, produce very long chains of thought on trivial arithmetic. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Xuan Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xuan-wang/) ×3 - [Meng Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meng-lu/) - [Shuxiang Cao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shuxiang-cao/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 21 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gaurav-srivastava/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026