--- title: "Gian Wiher — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Gian Wiher, ETH Zurich: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gian-wiher/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gian-wiher/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Gian Wiher # Gian Wiher Gian Wiher has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2023; often with [Clara Meister](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/clara-meister/), [Ryan Cotterell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-cotterell/), [Tiago Pimentel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tiago-pimentel/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5087960972) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5087960972) · [8 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5087960972) · [140 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5087960972&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gian-wiher/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 126 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gian-wiher/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5378](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/54/#star-5378) 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=Gian+Wiher) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Gian+Wiher) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Gian+Wiher) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Gian+Wiher) ## Affiliations [🎓**ETH Zurich** Zurich · Switzerland 2022–2023 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/eth-zurich/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) 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/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gian-wiher/year/2023/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gian-wiher/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Locally Typical Sampling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meister-2023-locally-typical-sampling/)** *(2023 · 157 citations)* Neural language models assign high likelihood to held-out text, yet the text they generate often reads poorly. 2. **[On Decoding Strategies for Neural Text Generators](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wiher-2022-decoding-strategies-neural-text-generators/)** *(2022 · 81 citations)* Most proposals for new decoding methods are tested on only one generation task, yet their merits are often presented as general. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Clara Meister](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/clara-meister/) ×2 - [Ryan Cotterell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-cotterell/) ×2 - [Tiago Pimentel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tiago-pimentel/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/) ×2: [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2023/), [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2022/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 126 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [15 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gian-wiher/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026