--- title: "Mehran Kazemi — author profile and papers" description: "Mehran Kazemi: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehran-kazemi/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehran-kazemi/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mehran Kazemi # Mehran Kazemi Mehran Kazemi has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Arian Hosseini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arian-hosseini/), [Hritik Bansal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hritik-bansal/), [Rishabh Agarwal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rishabh-agarwal/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5061716911) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5061716911) · [30 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5061716911) · [1,424 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5061716911&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehran-kazemi/#papers) · [🔗 3,742 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehran-kazemi/cited-by/) · [6 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #3923](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/40/#star-3923) 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=Mehran+Kazemi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mehran+Kazemi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mehran+Kazemi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mehran+Kazemi) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2023–2025 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Language models & pretraining (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehran-kazemi/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Generative Verifiers: Reward Modeling as Next-Token Prediction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2024-generative-verifiers-reward-modeling-as/)** *(2024 · 143 citations)* Best-of-N selection lets an LLM sample many candidate solutions and relies on a learned verifier to choose the best one. 2. **[Smaller, Weaker, Yet Better: Training LLM Reasoners via Compute-Optimal Sampling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bansal-2024-smaller-weaker-yet-better-training/)** *(2024 · 26 citations)* A common way to improve LLM reasoning is to finetune on solutions sampled from a large, strong model. The authors ask whether this is the best use of a fixed inference budget measured in FLOPs. Because sampling cost grows with parameter count, a smaller model can produce proportionally more candidate solutions for… ## Also in our library 6 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Arian Hosseini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arian-hosseini/) ×2 - [Hritik Bansal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hritik-bansal/) ×2 - [Rishabh Agarwal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rishabh-agarwal/) ×2 - [Aviral Kumar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aviral-kumar/) - [Vinh Q. Tran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vinh-q-tran/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 3,742 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [184 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehran-kazemi/cited-by/).