--- title: "Maria Drencheva — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Maria Drencheva, Sofia University \"St. Kliment Ohridski\": 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maria-drencheva/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maria-drencheva/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Maria Drencheva # Maria Drencheva Maria Drencheva has 2 papers in our library, in 2025, 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/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Ivo Petrov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivo-petrov/), [Jasper Dekoninck](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jasper-dekoninck/), [Kristian Minchev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kristian-minchev/). 2 papers in our library · 2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5119958090) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5119958090) · [4 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5119958090) · [2 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5119958090&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maria-drencheva/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 40 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maria-drencheva/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9976](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/100/#star-9976) 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=Maria+Drencheva) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Maria+Drencheva) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Maria+Drencheva) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Maria+Drencheva) ## Affiliations [🎓**Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"** Sofia · Bulgaria 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sofia-university-st-kliment-ohridski/) 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 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/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maria-drencheva/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Proof or Bluff? Evaluating LLMs on 2025 USA Math Olympiad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/petrov-2025-proof-or-bluff-evaluating-llms/)** *(2025 · 31 citations)* Benchmarks such as MathArena show reasoning LLMs performing at near-elite levels on answer-based contests like AIME and HMMT. 2. **[The Open Proof Corpus: A Large-Scale Study of LLM-Generated Mathematical Proofs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dekoninck-2025-open-proof-corpus-large-scale/)** *(2025 · 11 citations)* Progress in LLM-based proof writing is held back by the lack of a large, carefully graded collection of model-written proofs. ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ivo Petrov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivo-petrov/) ×2 - [Jasper Dekoninck](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jasper-dekoninck/) ×2 - [Kristian Minchev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kristian-minchev/) ×2 - [Martin Vechev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martin-vechev/) ×2 - [Mislav Balunović](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mislav-balunovic/) ×2 - [Nikola Jovanović](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikola-jovanovic/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 40 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [17 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maria-drencheva/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026