--- title: "Hootan Nakhost — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Hootan Nakhost, Google: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hootan-nakhost/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hootan-nakhost/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Hootan Nakhost # Hootan Nakhost Hootan Nakhost has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, 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 [Chen-Yu Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-yu-lee/), [Alexander Ratner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-ratner/), [Cheng-Yu Hsieh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-yu-hsieh/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5060969697) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5060969697) · [44 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5060969697) · [789 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5060969697&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hootan-nakhost/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 393 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hootan-nakhost/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3106](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/32/#star-3106) 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=Hootan+Nakhost) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Hootan+Nakhost) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Hootan+Nakhost) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Hootan+Nakhost) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2022–2025 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Arizona State University** Tempe · United States 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/arizona-state-university/) · [🎓**University of Alberta** Edmonton · Canada 2009–2021 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-alberta/) · [🏢**Google** Haifa · Israel 2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-israel/) · [🎓**University of Tehran** Tehran · Iran 2006–2020 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-tehran/) · [🎓**Sharif University of Technology** Tehran · Iran 2007 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sharif-university-of-technology/) 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).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [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/) · [Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) 🧭 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/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hootan-nakhost/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hootan-nakhost/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Distilling Step-by-Step! Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training Data and Smaller Model Sizes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hsieh-2023-distilling-step-step-outperforming-larger/)** *(2023 · 690 citations)* Small task-specific models are cheap to serve, but they usually need many human labels (finetuning) or large pools of unlabeled data (distillation from an LLM) to approach LLM quality. 2. **[PlanGEN: A Multi-Agent Framework for Generating Planning and Reasoning Trajectories for Complex Problem Solving](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/parmar-2025-plangen-multi-agent-framework-generating/)** *(2025 · 16 citations)* LLM-based agents and test-time search methods often fail on "natural planning" tasks, such as scheduling meetings or planning trips described in plain language. ## Co-authors here 12 of 15 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chen-Yu Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-yu-lee/) ×2 - [Alexander Ratner](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-ratner/) - [Cheng-Yu Hsieh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cheng-yu-hsieh/) - [Chitta Baral](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chitta-baral/) - [Chun-Liang Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chun-liang-li/) - [Jindong Gu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jindong-gu/) - [Long Le](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/long-le/) - [Mihir Parmar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mihir-parmar/) - [Palash Goyal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/palash-goyal/) - [Ranjay Krishna](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ranjay-krishna/) - [Swaroop Mishra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/swaroop-mishra/) - [Tomas Pfister](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tomas-pfister/) ## 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 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 393 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [69 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hootan-nakhost/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026