--- title: "Matthew Aitchison — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Matthew Aitchison: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 5 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-aitchison/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-aitchison/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Matthew Aitchison # Matthew Aitchison Matthew Aitchison 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/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Efficient models & compression](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/); often with [Elliot Catt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elliot-catt/), [Anian Ruoss](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anian-ruoss/), [Gregoire Deletang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregoire-deletang/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5005322233) · [**h-index 5**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5005322233) · [21 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5005322233) · [982 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5005322233&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-aitchison/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2,317 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-aitchison/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7849](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/79/#star-7849) 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=Matthew+Aitchison) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Matthew+Aitchison) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Matthew+Aitchison) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Matthew+Aitchison) ## Affiliations [🎓**Australian National University** Canberra · Australia 2019–2023 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/australian-national-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 9 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/) · [Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/safety-risk-reliability-and-quality/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [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/) 💡 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 [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-aitchison/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-aitchison/year/2023/) ## 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. **[Evaluating Frontier Models for Dangerous Capabilities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/phuong-2024-evaluating-frontier-models-dangerous-capabilities/)** *(2024 · 36 citations)* Popular benchmarks measure broad skills such as coding or maths, and most safety tests check whether a model refuses harmful requests. ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Elliot Catt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/elliot-catt/) ×2 - [Anian Ruoss](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anian-ruoss/) - [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/) - [Laurent Orseau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laurent-orseau/) - [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/) - [Mary Phuong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mary-phuong/) - [Matthew Rahtz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-rahtz/) - [Paul-Ambroise Duquenne](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-ambroise-duquenne/) - [Tim Genewein](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tim-genewein/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2,317 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [643 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-aitchison/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026