--- title: "Kanishk Gandhi · Stanford University — author profile and papers" description: "Kanishk Gandhi, Stanford University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kanishk-gandhi/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kanishk-gandhi/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kanishk Gandhi # Kanishk Gandhi Kanishk Gandhi has 3 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Noah D. Goodman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-d-goodman/), [Anikait Singh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anikait-singh/), [Emma Brunskill](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emma-brunskill/). 3 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5085625870) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5085625870) · [29 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5085625870) · [122 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5085625870&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kanishk-gandhi/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 352 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kanishk-gandhi/cited-by/) · [8 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6185](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/62/#star-6185) 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=Kanishk+Gandhi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kanishk+Gandhi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kanishk+Gandhi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kanishk+Gandhi) ## Affiliations [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2022–2026 · 17 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**New York University** New York · United States 2019–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Management Science and Operations Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/management-science-and-operations-research/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kanishk-gandhi/year/2025/) · [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kanishk-gandhi/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Cognitive Behaviors that Enable Self-Improving Reasoners, or, Four Habits of Highly Effective STaRs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gandhi-2025-cognitive-behaviors-that-enable-self/)** *(2025 · 123 citations)* Why do some base language models gain a lot from reinforcement learning on verifiable tasks while others stall? The authors observe that Qwen-2.5-3B improves sharply on the Countdown arithmetic puzzle under a given RL setup, while Llama-3.2-3B, trained the same way, barely moves. 2. **[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. 3. **[Psychometric Alignment: Capturing Human Knowledge Distributions via Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-yueya-2024-psychometric-alignment-capturing-human-knowledge/)** *(2024 · 12 citations)* Language models are increasingly used to stand in for human populations, for example when designing educational materials. ## All works 11 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**Cognitive Behaviors that Enable Self-Improving Reasoners, or, Four Habits of Highly Effective STaRs arXiv:2503.01307**Kanishk Gandhi, Ayush Chakravarthy, Anikait Singh, et al.*2025 · 123 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gandhi-2025-cognitive-behaviors-that-enable-self/) 2. **[Stream of Search (SoS): Learning to Search in Language ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03683) arXiv:2404.03683 · no summary yet**Kanishk Gandhi et al.*2024 · 49 citations* 3. **[Towards System 2 Reasoning in LLMs: Learning How to Think With Meta Chain-of-Thought ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.04682) arXiv:2501.04682 · no summary yet**Violet Xiang et al.*2025 · 47 citations* 4. **[Big-Math: A Large-Scale, High-Quality Math Dataset for Reinforcement Learning in Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17387) arXiv:2502.17387 · no summary yet**Alon Albalak et al.*2025 · 43 citations* 5. **[Strategic Reasoning with Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.19165) arXiv:2305.19165 · no summary yet**Kanishk Gandhi, Dorsa Sadigh, Noah D. Goodman*2023 · 40 citations* 6. **[Certified Deductive Reasoning with Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.04031) arXiv:2306.04031 · no summary yet**Gabriel Poesia et al.*2023 · 23 citations* 7. **[Surveying the Effects of Quality, Diversity, and Complexity in Synthetic Data From Large Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.02980) arXiv:2412.02980 · no summary yet**Alex Havrilla et al.*2024 · 17 citations* 8. **[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/) [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/)**Jan-Philipp Franken, Eric Zelikman, Rafael Rafailov, et al.*2024 · 16 citations* 9. [**Psychometric Alignment: Capturing Human Knowledge Distributions via Language Models arXiv:2407.15645**Joy He-Yueya, Wanjing Anya Ma, Kanishk Gandhi, et al.*2024 · 12 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/he-yueya-2024-psychometric-alignment-capturing-human-knowledge/) 10. **[BoxingGym: Benchmarking Progress in Automated Experimental Design and Model Discovery ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.01540) arXiv:2501.01540 · no summary yet**Kanishk Gandhi et al.*2025 · 4 citations* 11. **[Learning Next Action Predictors from Human-Computer Interaction ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.05923) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Omar Shaikh et al.*2026 · 3 citations* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Noah D. Goodman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-d-goodman/) ×3 - [Anikait Singh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anikait-singh/) - [Emma Brunskill](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/emma-brunskill/) - [Eric Zelikman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-zelikman/) - [Rafael Rafailov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rafael-rafailov/) - [Tobias Gerstenberg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tobias-gerstenberg/) - [Wanjing Anya Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wanjing-anya-ma/) ## 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 352 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [68 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kanishk-gandhi/cited-by/). 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