--- title: "Imanol Schlag · ETH Zurich — author profile and papers" description: "Imanol Schlag, ETH Zurich: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2022), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/imanol-schlag/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/imanol-schlag/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Imanol Schlag # Imanol Schlag Imanol Schlag has 2 papers in our library, in 2021–2022, 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 [Aitor Lewkowycz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aitor-lewkowycz/), [Ambrose Slone](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ambrose-slone/), [Anders Andreassen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anders-andreassen/). 2 papers in our library · 2021–2022 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5019167028) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5019167028) · [43 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5019167028) · [572 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5019167028&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/imanol-schlag/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 888 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/imanol-schlag/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2531](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/26/#star-2531) 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=Imanol+Schlag) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Imanol+Schlag) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Imanol+Schlag) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Imanol+Schlag) ## Affiliations [🎓**ETH Zurich** Zurich · Switzerland 2023–2026 · 16 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/eth-zurich/) · [🔬**CSCS - Swiss National Supercomputing Centre** Lugano 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/04rzmms09) · [🔬**Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research** Lugano · Switzerland 2018–2025 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/dalle-molle-institute-for-artificial-intelligence-research/) · [🎓**University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland** Manno · Switzerland 2020–2021 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-applied-sciences-and-arts-of-southern-switzerland/) · [🎓**Università della Svizzera italiana** Lugano · Switzerland 2020–2021 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universita-della-svizzera-italiana/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution 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/) · [Applied Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/mathematics/applied-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 · 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 [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/imanol-schlag/year/2022/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/imanol-schlag/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lewkowycz-2022-solving-quantitative-reasoning-problems-language/)** *(2022 · 992 citations)* Large language models handle many language tasks well but have struggled with quantitative problems in mathematics, science and engineering, where a solver must understand a word problem, recall relevant knowledge and carry out exact symbolic and numerical steps. 2. **[Linear Transformers Are Secretly Fast Weight Programmers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schlag-2021-linear-transformers-secretly-fast-weight/)** *(2021 · 111 citations)* The paper shows that linear Transformers, which replace softmax attention with a kernel-based approximation, are mathematically the same as the outer-product Fast Weight Programmers (FWPs) Schmidhuber proposed in the early 1990s, apart from a normalisation term. ## 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. **[Solving Quantitative Reasoning Problems with Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lewkowycz-2022-solving-quantitative-reasoning-problems-language/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Aitor Lewkowycz, Anders Andreassen, David Dohan, et al.*2022 · 992 citations* 2. [**Linear Transformers Are Secretly Fast Weight Programmers arXiv:2102.11174**Imanol Schlag, Kazuki Irie, Jurgen Schmidhuber*2021 · 111 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schlag-2021-linear-transformers-secretly-fast-weight/) 3. **[Large Language Model Programs ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.05364) arXiv:2305.05364 · no summary yet**Imanol Schlag et al.*2023 · 18 citations* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aitor Lewkowycz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aitor-lewkowycz/) - [Ambrose Slone](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ambrose-slone/) - [Anders Andreassen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anders-andreassen/) - [Behnam Neyshabur](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/behnam-neyshabur/) - [Cem Anil](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cem-anil/) - [David Dohan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-dohan/) - [Ethan Dyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ethan-dyer/) - [Henryk Michalewski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/henryk-michalewski/) - [Jurgen Schmidhuber](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jurgen-schmidhuber/) - [Vinay Ramasesh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vinay-ramasesh/) - [Yuhuai Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuhuai-wu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2022/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 888 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [280 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/imanol-schlag/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026