--- title: "Iman Mirzadeh — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Iman Mirzadeh: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iman-mirzadeh/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iman-mirzadeh/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Iman Mirzadeh # Iman Mirzadeh Iman Mirzadeh has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, 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 [Mehrdad Farajtabar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehrdad-farajtabar/), [Keivan Alizadeh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/keivan-alizadeh/), [Minsik Cho](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minsik-cho/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5079412282) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5079412282) · [25 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5079412282) · [395 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5079412282&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iman-mirzadeh/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 299 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iman-mirzadeh/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5096](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/51/#star-5096) 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=Iman+Mirzadeh) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Iman+Mirzadeh) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Iman+Mirzadeh) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Iman+Mirzadeh) ## Affiliations [🏢**Apple** Cupertino · United States 2024–2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/apple/) · [🎓**KTH Royal Institute of Technology** Stockholm · Sweden 2012–2013 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/kth-royal-institute-of-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 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/) · [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/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) · [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 · 2 works](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 [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iman-mirzadeh/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mirzadeh-2024-gsm-symbolic-understanding-limitations-mathematical/)** *(2024 · 273 citations)* Scores on GSM8K, the standard grade-school math benchmark, keep rising. The authors ask whether that reflects real reasoning or just familiarity with a fixed and possibly leaked test set. They build GSM-Symbolic by turning GSM8K problems into templates, where names, numbers and family terms become variables with… 2. **[Scaling Smart: Accelerating Large Language Model Pre-training with Small Model Initialization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/samragh-2024-scaling-smart-accelerating-large-language/)** *(2024 · 8 citations)* Training large language models from random weights is slow and costly, while small models are cheap but less accurate. ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**GSM-Symbolic: Understanding the Limitations of Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models arXiv:2410.05229**Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh, Hooman Shahrokhi, et al.*2024 · 273 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mirzadeh-2024-gsm-symbolic-understanding-limitations-mathematical/) 2. **[The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06941) arXiv:2506.06941 · no summary yet**Parshin Shojaee et al.*2025 · 104 citations* 3. [**Scaling Smart: Accelerating Large Language Model Pre-training with Small Model Initialization arXiv:2409.12903**Mohammad Samragh, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh Vahid, et al.*2024 · 8 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/samragh-2024-scaling-smart-accelerating-large-language/) ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Mehrdad Farajtabar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehrdad-farajtabar/) ×2 - [Keivan Alizadeh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/keivan-alizadeh/) - [Minsik Cho](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minsik-cho/) - [Moin Nabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moin-nabi/) - [Oncel Tuzel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/oncel-tuzel/) - [Samy Bengio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samy-bengio/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 299 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [49 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iman-mirzadeh/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026