--- title: "Jeffrey Cheng · Princeton University — author profile and papers" description: "Jeffrey Cheng, Princeton University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeffrey-cheng/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeffrey-cheng/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jeffrey Cheng # Jeffrey Cheng Jeffrey Cheng has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/); often with [Benjamin Van Durme](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-van-durme/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5023276963) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5023276963) · [11 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023276963) · [25 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5023276963&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeffrey-cheng/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 66 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeffrey-cheng/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8520](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/86/#star-8520) 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=Jeffrey+Cheng) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jeffrey+Cheng) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jeffrey+Cheng) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jeffrey+Cheng) ## Affiliations [🎓**Princeton University** Princeton · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/princeton-university/) · [🎓**The University of Texas at Austin** Austin · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 2019–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeffrey-cheng/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeffrey-cheng/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Compressed Chain of Thought: Efficient Reasoning Through Dense Representations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cheng-2024-compressed-chain-thought-efficient-reasoning/)** *(2024 · 60 citations)* Chain-of-thought reasoning makes language models more accurate, but writing out long explicit reasoning traces slows generation considerably. 2. **[Is That Your Final Answer? Test-Time Scaling Improves Selective Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jurayj-2025-is-that-your-final-answer/)** *(2025 · 11 citations)* Benchmarks of test-time scaling for reasoning LLMs usually assume the model must always answer, so wrong answers cost nothing. ## 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. [**Compressed Chain of Thought: Efficient Reasoning Through Dense Representations arXiv:2412.13171**Jeffrey Cheng, Benjamin Van Durme*2024 · 60 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cheng-2024-compressed-chain-thought-efficient-reasoning/) 2. **[Is That Your Final Answer? Test-Time Scaling Improves Selective Question Answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/jurayj-2025-is-that-your-final-answer/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**William Jurayj, Jeffrey Cheng, Benjamin Van Durme*2025 · 11 citations* 3. **[Language Models that Play Chess and Explain Their Moves ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.03695) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Adithya Bhaskar, Jeffrey Cheng, Danqi Chen*2026* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Benjamin Van Durme](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-van-durme/) ×2 ## 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/): [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 66 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [29 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeffrey-cheng/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026