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# Joshua Clune

Joshua Clune has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Jeremy Avigad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeremy-avigad/), [Albert Q. Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/albert-q-jiang/), [Sean Welleck](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sean-welleck/).

2 papers in our library · 2024–2025

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5004455254) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4047-6196) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5004455254) · [16 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004455254) · [30 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5004455254&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joshua-clune/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 8 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joshua-clune/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11700](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/117/#star-11700)

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=Joshua+Clune) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Joshua+Clune) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Joshua+Clune) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Joshua+Clune)

## Affiliations

[🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2020–2026 · 11 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/)

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 3 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/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/)

🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[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/joshua-clune/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joshua-clune/year/2024/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Duper: A Proof-Producing Superposition Theorem Prover for Dependent Type Theory](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/clune-2024-duper-proof-producing-superposition-theorem/)** *(2024 · 8 citations)* Lean has no hammer, i.e. a tool that sends goals to external automatic provers and then rebuilds checkable proofs from their output. Building one for a dependently typed foundation is difficult. The authors present Duper, a superposition-based prover written in Lean that outputs proof terms directly in Lean's…
2. **[Premise Selection for a Lean Hammer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2025-premise-selection-lean-hammer/)** *(2025 · 5 citations)* Lean users often have to name, by hand, the exact lemmas that justify each small proof step, drawn from libraries with hundreds of thousands of facts.

## Co-authors here

4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Jeremy Avigad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeremy-avigad/) ×2
- [Albert Q. Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/albert-q-jiang/)
- [Sean Welleck](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sean-welleck/)
- [Thomas Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-zhu/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- ITP 2024 (LIPIcs 309)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 8 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [3 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joshua-clune/cited-by/).

Updated 3 November 2026
