--- title: "Illia Polosukhin — author profile and papers" description: "Illia Polosukhin, Google: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2019), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/illia-polosukhin/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/illia-polosukhin/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Illia Polosukhin # Illia Polosukhin Illia Polosukhin has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2019, most of them on [Machine translation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Llion Jones](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/llion-jones/), [Ankur Parikh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ankur-parikh/), [Ashish Vaswani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashish-vaswani/). 2 papers in our library · 2017–2019 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5045719436) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5045719436) · [19 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5045719436) · [26,790 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5045719436&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/illia-polosukhin/#papers) · [🔗 18,396 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/illia-polosukhin/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #70](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/#star-70) 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=Illia+Polosukhin) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Illia+Polosukhin) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Illia+Polosukhin) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Illia+Polosukhin) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2016–2025 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Tel Aviv University** Tel Aviv · Israel 2016–2017 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/tel-aviv-university/) · [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 2016–2017 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Topics [Machine translation (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/machine-translation/) · [Question answering (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kwiatkowski-2019-natural-questions-benchmark-question-answering/) · [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vaswani-2017-attention-all-need/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Attention Is All You Need](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vaswani-2017-attention-all-need/)** *(2017 · 16,413 citations)* The paper addresses the transformation of one sequence into another (sequence transduction), primarily machine translation. 2. **[Natural Questions: A Benchmark for Question Answering Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kwiatkowski-2019-natural-questions-benchmark-question-answering/)** *(2019 · 4,031 citations)* Open-domain question answering lacked training and evaluation data built from real information needs. In earlier sets such as SQuAD, annotators wrote questions after seeing the evidence. Query-based sets like MS Marco scored free-form answers with BLEU. The Google Research team built Natural Questions (NQ) to fill… ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Llion Jones](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/llion-jones/) ×2 - [Ankur Parikh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ankur-parikh/) - [Ashish Vaswani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ashish-vaswani/) - [Chris Alberti](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-alberti/) - [Jacob Devlin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacob-devlin/) - [Jakob Uszkoreit](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jakob-uszkoreit/) - [Jennimaria Palomaki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jennimaria-palomaki/) - [Kenton Lee](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kenton-lee/) - [Kristina Toutanova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kristina-toutanova/) - [Lukasz Kaiser](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lukasz-kaiser/) - [Michael Collins](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-collins/) - [Niki Parmar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/niki-parmar/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 18,396 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1,116 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/illia-polosukhin/cited-by/).