--- title: "Jan-Philipp Fränken — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Jan-Philipp Fränken, Stanford University: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-philipp-franken/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-philipp-franken/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jan-Philipp Fränken # Jan-Philipp Fränken Jan-Philipp Fränken has 4 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, 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 [Rafael Rafailov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rafael-rafailov/), [Alon Albalak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alon-albalak/), [Chase Blagden](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chase-blagden/). 4 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5046536754) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5467-1887) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5046536754) · [26 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5046536754) · [111 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5046536754&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-philipp-franken/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 152 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-philipp-franken/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7219](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/73/#star-7219) 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=Jan-Philipp+Fr%C3%A4nken) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jan-Philipp+Fr%C3%A4nken) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jan-Philipp+Fr%C3%A4nken) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jan-Philipp+Fr%C3%A4nken) ## Affiliations [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2023–2025 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2021–2025 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 4 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 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 [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-philipp-franken/year/2025/) · [**2024** 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-philipp-franken/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Generative Reward Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mahan-2024-generative-reward-models/)** *(2024 · 58 citations)* Reward models trained with the Bradley-Terry objective on human preference pairs score well on familiar data but generalize poorly to unseen tasks. 2. **[Towards System 2 Reasoning in LLMs: Learning How to Think With Meta Chain-of-Thought](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xiang-2025-towards-system-2-reasoning-llms/)** *(2025 · 47 citations)* Large language models handle routine math well but still fail on harder problems. The authors argue that ordinary Chain-of-Thought (CoT) is part of the cause. Written solutions in training data show only the polished final derivation. They omit the hidden, non-linear work of trying options, checking them and… 3. **[STaR-GATE: Teaching Language Models to Ask Clarifying Questions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/andukuri-2024-star-gate-teaching-language-models/)** *(2024 · 43 citations)* Users often phrase their requests to a language model incompletely, so the model responds generically and ignores their preferences. 4. **[Self-Supervised Alignment with Mutual Information: Learning to Follow Principles without Preference Labels](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/franken-2024-self-supervised-alignment-mutual-information/)** *(2024 · 16 citations)* Teaching a language model to respect a set of behavioral rules (a "constitution") usually depends on human preference labels, curated demonstrations, or reward models with reinforcement learning. ## Co-authors here 12 of 15 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Rafael Rafailov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rafael-rafailov/) ×3 - [Alon Albalak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alon-albalak/) ×2 - [Chase Blagden](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chase-blagden/) ×2 - [Dakota Mahan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dakota-mahan/) ×2 - [Duy Phung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/duy-phung/) ×2 - [Kanishk Gandhi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kanishk-gandhi/) ×2 - [Louis Castricato](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/louis-castricato/) ×2 - [Nathan Lile](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nathan-lile/) ×2 - [Noah D. Goodman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-d-goodman/) ×2 - [Tobias Gerstenberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tobias-gerstenberg/) ×2 - [Anikait Singh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anikait-singh/) - [Charlie Snell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charlie-snell/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 152 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [52 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-philipp-franken/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026