--- title: "Hunter Lightman — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Hunter Lightman: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hunter-lightman/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hunter-lightman/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Hunter Lightman # Hunter Lightman Hunter Lightman has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Alexander Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-wei/), [Bowen Baker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-baker/), [Daniel Selsam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-selsam/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5092070318) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5092070318) · [5 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5092070318) · [98 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5092070318&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hunter-lightman/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2,758 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hunter-lightman/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2035](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/21/#star-2035) 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=Hunter+Lightman) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Hunter+Lightman) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Hunter+Lightman) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Hunter+Lightman) ## 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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [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/) · [Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/) · [Computer Science Applications · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-science-applications/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hunter-lightman/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hunter-lightman/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Let's Verify Step by Step](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lightman-2023-let-s-verify-step-step/)** *(2023 · 1,412 citations)* Large language models can reason through multi-step problems, but one faulty step can spoil a whole solution. 2. **[Competitive Programming with Large Reasoning Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/el-kishky-2025-competitive-programming-large-reasoning-models/)** *(2025 · 68 citations)* This OpenAI report asks whether LLM performance in competitive programming improves more from hand-built, task-specific inference pipelines or from scaling general reinforcement learning. ## Co-authors here 12 of 15 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alexander Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-wei/) - [Bowen Baker](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-baker/) - [Daniel Selsam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-selsam/) - [David Dohan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-dohan/) - [Francis Song](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francis-song/) - [Harri Edwards](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/harri-edwards/) - [Ilya Sutskever](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ilya-sutskever/) - [Jakub Pachocki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakub-pachocki/) - [Jan Leike](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-leike/) - [Jerry Tworek](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jerry-tworek/) - [John Schulman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-schulman/) - [Karl Cobbe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karl-cobbe/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2,758 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [745 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hunter-lightman/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026