--- title: "Matthew Renze — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Matthew Renze, Johns Hopkins University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-renze/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-renze/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Matthew Renze # Matthew Renze Matthew Renze has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5093713884) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5093713884) · [5 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5093713884) · [280 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5093713884&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-renze/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 123 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-renze/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/41/#star-4025) 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+Renze) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Matthew+Renze) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Matthew+Renze) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Matthew+Renze) ## Affiliations [🎓**Johns Hopkins University** Baltimore · United States 2024 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johns-hopkins-university/) 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/) · [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 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers Matthew Renze's papers of 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-renze/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Effect of Sampling Temperature on Problem Solving in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/renze-2024-effect-sampling-temperature-problem-solving/)** *(2024 · 262 citations)* Practitioners often pick an LLM's sampling temperature by intuition: low for precise work, high for "creative" work, with little evidence behind either. 2. **[Self-Reflection in LLM Agents: Effects on Problem-Solving Performance](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/renze-2024-self-reflection-llm-agents-effects/)** *(2024 · 75 citations)* LLM agents that reason via chain of thought (CoT) still make logical, arithmetic and factual errors. Renze and Guven test whether an agent that analyses its own failed reasoning does better on a second attempt. They built a 1,000-item multiple-choice exam by sampling 100 questions from each of ten problem sets (from… ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 123 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [7 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-renze/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026