--- title: "Luca Soldaini — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Luca Soldaini, Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2024), h-index 20 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luca-soldaini/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luca-soldaini/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Luca Soldaini # Luca Soldaini Luca Soldaini has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Andrew Yates](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-yates/), [Arman Cohan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arman-cohan/), [Christopher Clark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-clark/). 2 papers in our library · 2018–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5060844217) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6998-9863) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130838676) · [**h-index 20**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5060844217) · [122 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5060844217) · [1,160 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5060844217&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luca-soldaini/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,060 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luca-soldaini/cited-by/) · [8 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4321](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/44/#star-4321) 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=Luca+Soldaini) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Luca+Soldaini) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Luca+Soldaini) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Luca+Soldaini) ## Affiliations [🔬**Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence** Seattle · United States 2021–2026 · 72 papersEmployment since 2022 · Applied Research Scientist, Semantic Scholar*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**University of Glasgow** Glasgow · United Kingdom 2024–2026 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-glasgow/) · [🎓**Georgetown University** Washington · United States 2013–2018 · 16 papersEducation 2013–2018 · Doctor of Philosopy, Computer ScienceEducation 2013–2015 · Master of Science, Computer Science](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgetown-university/) · [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 2023–2024 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🏢**Amazon** Seattle · United States 2019–2021 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/amazon/) · [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2024–2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2023–2025 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**Yale University** New Haven · United States 2023–2024 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/yale-university/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) 🏛️**Amazon Services LLC** Seattle · [United States](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/united-states/) 2017–2022Employment 2017 · Research Scientist Intern, Alexa AIEmployment 2018–2022 · Senior Applied Scientist, Alexa Search From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 14 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 Shelves 8 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/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Experimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/experimental-and-cognitive-psychology/) · [Social Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/social-psychology/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[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 Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deitke-2024-molmo-pixmo-open-weights-open/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper SMHD: a Large-Scale Resource for Exploring Online Language Usage for Multiple Mental Health Conditions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cohan-2018-smhd-large-scale-resource-exploring/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deitke-2024-molmo-pixmo-open-weights-open/)** *(2024 · 184 citations)* The strongest vision-language models (VLMs) are closed. Most capable open-weight alternatives are trained on captions or answers produced by proprietary systems such as GPT-4V. In effect they distill closed models, so it remains unclear how to build a strong VLM from scratch. The authors release Molmo, a family of… 2. **[SMHD: a Large-Scale Resource for Exploring Online Language Usage for Multiple Mental Health Conditions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cohan-2018-smhd-large-scale-resource-exploring/)** *(2018 · 89 citations)* Studying how mental health conditions show up in everyday language requires large labeled collections of users, but expert annotation is costly and hard to arrange. ## All works 10 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. **[Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/deitke-2024-molmo-pixmo-open-weights-open/)**Matt Deitke, Christopher Clark, Sangho Lee, et al.*[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/) · 184 citations* 2. **[SMHD: a Large-Scale Resource for Exploring Online Language Usage for Multiple Mental Health Conditions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/cohan-2018-smhd-large-scale-resource-exploring/)**Arman Cohan, Bart Desmet, Andrew Yates, et al.*[International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/) · 89 citations* 3. **[What's In My Big Data?](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20707) · original ↗ · no summary yet · arXiv:2310.20707**Yanai Elazar et al.*2023 · 85 citations* 4. **[OpenScholar: Synthesizing Scientific Literature with Retrieval-augmented LMs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.14199) · original ↗ · no summary yet · arXiv:2411.14199**Akari Asai et al.*2024 · 58 citations* 5. **[olmOCR: Unlocking Trillions of Tokens in PDFs with Vision Language Models](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.18443) · original ↗ · no summary yet · arXiv:2502.18443**Jake Poznanski et al.*2025 · 42 citations* 6. **[FollowIR: Evaluating and Teaching Information Retrieval Models to Follow Instructions](https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.597/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of…**Orion Weller et al.*2025 · 39 citations* 7. **[Paloma: A Benchmark for Evaluating Language Model Fit](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.10523) · original ↗ · no summary yet · arXiv:2312.10523**Ian Magnusson et al.*2023 · 35 citations* 8. **[SciRIFF: A Resource to Enhance Language Model Instruction-Following over Scientific Literature](https://aclanthology.org/2025.emnlp-main.310/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language…**David Wadden et al.*2025 · 24 citations* 9. **[AboutMe: Using Self-Descriptions in Webpages to Document the Effects of English Pretraining Data Filters](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.400/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational…**Li Lucy et al.*2024 · 14 citations* 10. **[The olmOCR Project: Building Fully Open OCR using VLMs](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-demo.62/) · original ↗ · no summary yet · Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational…**Jake Poznanski, Kyle Lo, Luca Soldaini*2026 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Andrew Yates](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-yates/) - [Arman Cohan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arman-cohan/) - [Christopher Clark](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-clark/) - [Jiasen Lu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiasen-lu/) - [Kyle Lo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyle-lo/) - [Mohammadreza Salehi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammadreza-salehi/) - [Nazli Goharian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nazli-goharian/) - [Niklas Muennighoff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/niklas-muennighoff/) - [Yue Yang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yue-yang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association… ×2 - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2018/) - [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 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-computer-society-conference-on-computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/2024/) - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/) - Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the… - Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in… ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,060 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [58 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luca-soldaini/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026