--- title: "Kaya Stechly — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Kaya Stechly, Arizona State University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaya-stechly/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaya-stechly/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kaya Stechly # Kaya Stechly Kaya Stechly has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, 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/); often with [Karthik Valmeekam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karthik-valmeekam/), [Subbarao Kambhampati](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/subbarao-kambhampati/), [Lin Guan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lin-guan/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5093104363) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5093104363) · [11 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5093104363) · [63 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5093104363&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaya-stechly/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 116 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaya-stechly/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7802](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/79/#star-7802) 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=Kaya+Stechly) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kaya+Stechly) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kaya+Stechly) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kaya+Stechly) ## Affiliations [🎓**Arizona State University** Tempe · United States 2023–2025 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/arizona-state-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 4 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [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.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaya-stechly/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[LLMs Can't Plan, But Can Help Planning in LLM-Modulo Frameworks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kambhampati-2024-llms-t-plan-but-help/)** *(2024 · 88 citations)* This position paper responds to two opposing errors in the debate on LLMs and planning. One overstates their reasoning ability. The other treats them as mere text-to-symbol converters for classical solvers. The authors review evidence, much of it from their own group, that autoregressive LLMs cannot reliably produce… 2. **[On the Self-Verification Limitations of Large Language Models on Reasoning and Planning Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/stechly-2024-self-verification-limitations-large-language/)** *(2024 · 42 citations)* Many researchers hold that LLMs, though weak reasoners, can still fix their own mistakes by repeatedly checking and revising their answers, because checking is supposedly easier than solving. ## Co-authors here 3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Karthik Valmeekam](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/karthik-valmeekam/) ×2 - [Subbarao Kambhampati](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/subbarao-kambhampati/) ×2 - [Lin Guan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lin-guan/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 116 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [38 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kaya-stechly/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026