--- title: "Kaj Bostrom — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Kaj Bostrom, University of Minnesota: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2023), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaj-bostrom/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaj-bostrom/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kaj Bostrom # Kaj Bostrom Kaj Bostrom has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2023, 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/), [Tokenization & segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/); often with [Greg Durrett](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/greg-durrett/), [Swarat Chaudhuri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/swarat-chaudhuri/), [Xi Ye](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xi-ye/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5050663933) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5050663933) · [20 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5050663933) · [222 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5050663933&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaj-bostrom/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 206 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaj-bostrom/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4959](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/50/#star-4959) 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=Kaj+Bostrom) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kaj+Bostrom) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kaj+Bostrom) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kaj+Bostrom) ## Affiliations [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**University of Minnesota** Minneapolis · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-minnesota/) · [🎓**The University of Texas at Austin** Austin · United States 2020–2024 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/) 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/) · [Political Science and International Relations · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/political-science-and-international-relations/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Tokenization & segmentation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Subword tokenization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/subword-tokenization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaj-bostrom/year/2023/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaj-bostrom/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Byte Pair Encoding is Suboptimal for Language Model Pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bostrom-2020-byte-pair-encoding-is-suboptimal/)** *(2020 · 310 citations)* The authors test whether the subword tokenization algorithm affects the quality of pretrained language models. 2. **[MuSR: Testing the Limits of Chain-of-thought with Multistep Soft Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sprague-2023-musr-testing-limits-chain-thought/)** *(2023 · 74 citations)* Existing reasoning benchmarks for LLMs tend to fall into two camps. Some use artificial text that rule-based solvers can crack. Others involve commonsense but only one or two inference steps. MuSR (Multistep Soft Reasoning) targets the gap between them: long natural-language narratives whose solution requires both… ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Greg Durrett](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/greg-durrett/) ×2 - [Swarat Chaudhuri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/swarat-chaudhuri/) - [Xi Ye](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xi-ye/) - [Zayne Sprague](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zayne-sprague/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2020/) - [International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-conference-on-learning-representations-iclr/): [ICLR 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/international-conference-on-learning-representations-iclr/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 206 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [59 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaj-bostrom/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026