--- title: "Laurent Orseau · Google DeepMind — author profile and papers" description: "Laurent Orseau, Google DeepMind: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2023), h-index 16 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laurent-orseau/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laurent-orseau/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Laurent Orseau # Laurent Orseau Laurent Orseau 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/), [Efficient models & compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/); often with [Anian Ruoss](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anian-ruoss/), [Ankit Anand](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ankit-anand/), [Doina Precup](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/doina-precup/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5110938957) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0857-4039) · [**h-index 16**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5110938957) · [65 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5110938957) · [768 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5110938957&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laurent-orseau/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 67 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laurent-orseau/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8331](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/84/#star-8331) 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=Laurent+Orseau) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Laurent+Orseau) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Laurent+Orseau) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Laurent+Orseau) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2016–2026 · 16 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🏢**Google** London · United Kingdom 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-united-kingdom/) · [🎓**AgroParisTech** Palaiseau · France 2010–2014 · 13 papers](https://ror.org/02kbmgc12) · [🤝**Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique** Paris · France 2010–2014 · 11 papers](https://ror.org/01x3gbx83) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2016–2021 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🔬**Mathématiques et Informatique Appliquées** Palaiseau 2006–2011 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/00780az30) · [🔬**Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires** Rennes · France 2005–2006 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institut-de-recherche-en-informatique-et-systemes-aleatoires/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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 · 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/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Efficient models & compression · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) 💡 Concepts 2 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Minimum description length · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/minimum-description-length/) · [Natural language processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/natural-language-processing/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laurent-orseau/year/2023/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laurent-orseau/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Language Modeling Is Compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deletang-2023-language-modeling-compression/)** *(2023 · 91 citations)* The paper revisits the old equivalence between prediction and lossless compression and uses it to evaluate large pretrained models. 2. **[Learning to Prove from Synthetic Theorems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aygun-2020-learning-prove-synthetic-theorems/)** *(2020 · 12 citations)* Deep learning for automated theorem proving is held back by the scarcity of human-written theorems and proofs. ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Anian Ruoss](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anian-ruoss/) - [Ankit Anand](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ankit-anand/) - [Doina Precup](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/doina-precup/) - [Elliot Catt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elliot-catt/) - [Eser Aygün](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eser-aygun/) - [Gregoire Deletang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregoire-deletang/) - [Joel Veness](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joel-veness/) - [Jordi Grau-Moya](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jordi-grau-moya/) - [Li Kevin Wenliang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/li-kevin-wenliang/) - [Marcus Hutter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marcus-hutter/) - [Matthew Aitchison](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-aitchison/) - [Paul-Ambroise Duquenne](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-ambroise-duquenne/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 67 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [29 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laurent-orseau/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026