--- title: "Kevin P. Murphy — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Kevin P. Murphy, University of British Columbia: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2015–2022), h-index 54 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-p-murphy/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-p-murphy/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Kevin P. Murphy # Kevin P. Murphy Kevin P. Murphy has 3 papers in our library, in 2015–2022, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Aitor Lewkowycz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aitor-lewkowycz/), [Alan Yuille](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-yuille/), [Alexander Toshev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-toshev/). 3 papers in our library · 2015–2022 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5002713363) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5196-7236) · [**h-index 54**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5002713363) · [93 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5002713363) · [53,545 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5002713363&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-p-murphy/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,264 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-p-murphy/cited-by/) · [12 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #1218](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/13/#star-1218) 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=Kevin+P.+Murphy) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Kevin+P.+Murphy) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Kevin+P.+Murphy) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Kevin+P.+Murphy) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of British Columbia** Vancouver · Canada 2004–2026 · 12 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-british-columbia/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2013–2025 · 44 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Northumbria University** Newcastle upon Tyne · United Kingdom 2019–2025 · 6 papersEmployment 2021–2022 · Lecturer, Health and Life SciencesEmployment since 2022 · Assistant Professor, Nursing and Midwifery](https://ror.org/049e6bc10) · [🎓**Cardiff University** Cardiff · United Kingdom 2017–2019 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cardiff-university/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🏥**Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust** Newcastle upon Tyne · United Kingdom 2021Employment until 2021 · Specialist Practice Teacher](https://ror.org/05p40t847) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 9 more institutions 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 · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Semantics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/semantics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-p-murphy/year/2022/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-p-murphy/year/2019/) · [**2015** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-p-murphy/year/2015/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Generation and Comprehension of Unambiguous Object Descriptions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mao-2015-generation-comprehension-unambiguous-object-descriptions/)** *(2015 · 1,388 citations)* The paper studies referring expressions: phrases that single out exactly one object in a photo. It treats two linked tasks. Generation means producing such a phrase for a highlighted region. Comprehension means picking the correct region from a set of candidate boxes, given a phrase. The authors argue that this… 2. **[VideoBERT: A Joint Model for Video and Language Representation Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2019-videobert-joint-model-video-language/)** *(2019 · 1,345 citations)* Most self-supervised video methods learn low-level cues such as textures or motion lasting under a second. 3. **[Language Model Cascades](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dohan-2022-language-model-cascades/)** *(2022 · 89 citations)* The paper addresses how to reason about the many ad hoc ways large language models are chained or repeatedly queried. ## All works 15 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. **[DeepLab: Semantic Image Segmentation with Deep Convolutional Nets, Atrous Convolution, and Fully Connected CRFs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/tpami.2017.2699184) IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · no summary yet**Liang-Chieh Chen et al.*2017 · 22,608 citations* 2. **[Speed/Accuracy Trade-Offs for Modern Convolutional Object Detectors ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2017.351) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Jonathan Huang et al.*2017 · 2,748 citations* 3. **[Progressive Neural Architecture Search ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01246-5_2) Lecture notes in computer science · no summary yet**Chenxi Liu et al.*2018 · 2,023 citations* 4. **[Rethinking Spatiotemporal Feature Learning: Speed-Accuracy Trade-offs in Video Classification ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01267-0_19) Lecture notes in computer science · no summary yet**Saining Xie et al.*2018 · 1,494 citations* 5. **[Generation and Comprehension of Unambiguous Object Descriptions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mao-2015-generation-comprehension-unambiguous-object-descriptions/) [IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/)**Junhua Mao, Jonathan Huang, Alexander Toshev, et al.*2015 · 1,388 citations* 6. **[VideoBERT: A Joint Model for Video and Language Representation Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sun-2019-videobert-joint-model-video-language/) [IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-cvf-international-conference-on-computer-vision-iccv/)**Chen Sun, Austin Myers, Carl Vondrick, et al.*2019 · 1,345 citations* 7. **[Towards Accurate Multi-person Pose Estimation in the Wild ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2017.395) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**George Papandreou et al.*2017 · 878 citations* 8. **[Composing Text and Image for Image Retrieval - an Empirical Odyssey ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2019.00660) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Nam Vo et al.*2019 · 417 citations* 9. **[Semantic Image Segmentation with Task-Specific Edge Detection Using CNNs and a Discriminatively Trained Domain Transform ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2016.492) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Liang-Chieh Chen et al.*2016 · 380 citations* 10. **[Accelerated training of conditional random fields with stochastic gradient methods ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/1143844.1143966) International Conference on Machine Learning · no summary yet**S. V. N. Vishwanathan et al.*2006 · 296 citations* 11. **[Deep Metric Learning via Facility Location ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2017.237) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Hyun Oh Song et al.*2017 · 294 citations* 12. **[Detecting Events and Key Actors in Multi-person Videos ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2016.332) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Vignesh Ramanathan et al.*2016 · 220 citations* 13. **[Context-aware Captions from Context-agnostic Supervision ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.02870) arXiv:1701.02870 · no summary yet**Ramakrishna Vedantam et al.*2017 · 161 citations* 14. **[Diverse Generation for Multi-Agent Sports Games ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2019.00474) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Raymond A. Yeh et al.*2019 · 101 citations* 15. [**Language Model Cascades arXiv:2207.10342**David Dohan, Winnie Xu, Aitor Lewkowycz, et al.*2022 · 89 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dohan-2022-language-model-cascades/) ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aitor Lewkowycz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aitor-lewkowycz/) - [Alan Yuille](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alan-yuille/) - [Alexander Toshev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alexander-toshev/) - [Carl Vondrick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carl-vondrick/) - [Charles Sutton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/charles-sutton/) - [Chen Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chen-sun/) - [David Dohan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-dohan/) - [Henryk Michalewski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/henryk-michalewski/) - [Jacob Austin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jacob-austin/) - [Jascha Sohl-dickstein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jascha-sohl-dickstein/) - [Junhua Mao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/junhua-mao/) - [Raphael Gontijo Lopes](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raphael-gontijo-lopes/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings ×7 - Lecture notes in computer science ×2 - [IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/): [IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2015](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/2015/) - [IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-cvf-international-conference-on-computer-vision-iccv/): [ICCV 2019](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-cvf-international-conference-on-computer-vision-iccv/2019/) - IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - International Conference on Machine Learning ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,264 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [139 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kevin-p-murphy/cited-by/). 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