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# Linda Petzold

Linda Petzold has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Xianjun Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xianjun-yang/), [Dahua Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dahua-lin/), [Qi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qi-zhang/).

2 papers in our library · 2023–2024

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5021640058) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6251-6078) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20085767) · [**h-index 67**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5021640058) · [354 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5021640058) · [20,045 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5021640058&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linda-petzold/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 138 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linda-petzold/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7522](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/76/#star-7522)

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=Linda+Petzold) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Linda+Petzold) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Linda+Petzold) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Linda+Petzold)

## Affiliations

[🎓**University of California, Santa Barbara** Santa Barbara · United States 1998–2025 · 247 papersEmployment · Professor, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-santa-barbara/) · [🎓**University of Minnesota** Minneapolis · United States 1992–2002 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-minnesota/) · [🔬**Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory** Livermore · United States 1987–2005 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/lawrence-livermore-national-laboratory/) · [🔬**Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies** Santa Barbara 2012–2018 · 5 papers](https://ror.org/04kz4p343) · [🔬**Sandia National Laboratories California** Livermore · United States 1983–1985 · 4 papers](https://ror.org/058m7ey48) · [🎓**University of California System** Oakland · United States 2012–2021 · 2 papers](https://ror.org/00pjdza24) · [🎓**University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign** Urbana · United States Education](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 12 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).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/)

🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Vision & language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linda-petzold/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linda-petzold/year/2023/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Shadow Alignment: The Ease of Subverting Safely-Aligned Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2023-shadow-alignment-ease-subverting-safely/)** *(2023 · 103 citations)* Open-weight chat models such as LLaMa-2-Chat undergo extensive safety alignment, but the authors ask whether this protection survives once anyone can fine-tune the weights.
2. **[MMSci: A Dataset for Graduate-Level Multi-Discipline Multimodal Scientific Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2024-mmsci-dataset-graduate-level-multi/)** *(2024 · 20 citations)* Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) are increasingly pitched as research assistants, but existing benchmarks mostly test simple charts or figures from a narrow set of fields.

## All works

3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. [**Shadow Alignment: The Ease of Subverting Safely-Aligned Language Models arXiv:2310.02949**Xianjun Yang, Xiao Wang, Qi Zhang, et al.*2023 · 103 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/yang-2023-shadow-alignment-ease-subverting-safely/)
2. **[A Survey on Large Language Models for Critical Societal Domains: Finance, Healthcare, and Law ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01769) arXiv:2405.01769 · no summary yet**Zhiyu Zoey Chen et al.*2024 · 44 citations*
3. [**MMSci: A Dataset for Graduate-Level Multi-Discipline Multimodal Scientific Understanding arXiv:2407.04903**Zekun Li, Xianjun Yang, Kyuri Choi, et al.*2024 · 20 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/li-2024-mmsci-dataset-graduate-level-multi/)

## Co-authors here

9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Xianjun Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xianjun-yang/) ×2
- [Dahua Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dahua-lin/)
- [Qi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qi-zhang/)
- [Wanrong Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wanrong-zhu/)
- [William Yang Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-yang-wang/)
- [Xiao Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiao-wang/)
- [Xifeng Yan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xifeng-yan/)
- [Xun Zhao](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xun-zhao/)
- [Zekun Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zekun-li/)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 138 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [41 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linda-petzold/cited-by/).

Updated 2 November 2026
