--- title: "Jonathan Schwarz — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Jonathan Schwarz, Harvard University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-schwarz/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-schwarz/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Jonathan Schwarz # Jonathan Schwarz Jonathan Schwarz has 2 papers in our library, in 2018, most of them on [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Chris Dyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-dyer/), [Edward Grefenstette](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/edward-grefenstette/), [Jelena Luketina](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jelena-luketina/). 2 papers in our library · 2018 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5085990900) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1825-3826) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5085990900) · [18 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5085990900) · [1,750 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5085990900&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-schwarz/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 530 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-schwarz/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2140](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/22/#star-2140) 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=Jonathan+Schwarz) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Jonathan+Schwarz) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Jonathan+Schwarz) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Jonathan+Schwarz) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2018–2024 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 2024 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2018–2021 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2016–2017 · 2 papers](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. 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) 💡 Concepts 2 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Natural language understanding · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/natural-language-understanding/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2018** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-schwarz/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The NarrativeQA Reading Comprehension Challenge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kocisky-2018-narrativeqa-reading-comprehension-challenge/)** *(2018 · 1,042 citations)* NarrativeQA pairs 1,567 long stories (half Gutenberg books, half movie scripts) with plot summaries from Wikipedia; annotators who saw only the summary wrote about 30 question–answer pairs per story in their own words (46,765 in all, answers 4.7 tokens on average, a second reference answer per question). 2. **[Progress & Compress: A scalable framework for continual learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schwarz-2018-progress-compress-scalable-framework-continual/)** *(2018 · 338 citations)* Neural networks that learn tasks one after another tend to lose earlier skills, a problem called catastrophic forgetting. ## 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. [**The NarrativeQA Reading Comprehension Challenge**Tomáš Kočiský, Jonathan Schwarz, Phil Blunsom, et al.*English · 1,042 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kocisky-2018-narrativeqa-reading-comprehension-challenge/) 2. [**Progress & Compress: A scalable framework for continual learning arXiv:1805.06370**Jonathan Schwarz, Jelena Luketina, Wojciech M. Czarnecki, et al.*2018 · 338 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/schwarz-2018-progress-compress-scalable-framework-continual/) 3. **[Attentive Neural Processes ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.05761) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Hyunjik Kim et al.*2019 · 33 citations* ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chris Dyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chris-dyer/) - [Edward Grefenstette](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/edward-grefenstette/) - [Jelena Luketina](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jelena-luketina/) - [Karl Moritz Hermann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karl-moritz-hermann/) - [Phil Blunsom](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/phil-blunsom/) - [Razvan Pascanu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/razvan-pascanu/) - [Tomáš Kočiský](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tomas-kocisky/) - [Wojciech Marian Czarnecki](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wojciech-marian-czarnecki/) - [Yee Whye Teh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yee-whye-teh/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2018/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 530 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [125 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-schwarz/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026