--- title: "Milad Aghajohari — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Milad Aghajohari: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/milad-aghajohari/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/milad-aghajohari/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Milad Aghajohari # Milad Aghajohari Milad Aghajohari has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, 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/); often with [Aaron Courville](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-courville/), [Alessandro Sordoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-sordoni/), [Amirhossein Kazemnejad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amirhossein-kazemnejad/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5006324090) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5006324090) · [13 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5006324090) · [31 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5006324090&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/milad-aghajohari/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 109 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/milad-aghajohari/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8176](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/82/#star-8176) 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=Milad+Aghajohari) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Milad+Aghajohari) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Milad+Aghajohari) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Milad+Aghajohari) ## Affiliations [🎓**Centre Universitaire de Mila** Mila · Algeria 2024 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/05s3cw058) · [🎓**Université de Montréal** Montreal · Canada 2021–2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-de-montreal/) · [🎓**Sharif University of Technology** Tehran · Iran 2019–2021 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sharif-university-of-technology/) 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 2 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/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/milad-aghajohari/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/milad-aghajohari/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[VinePPO: Refining Credit Assignment in RL Training of LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kazemnejad-2024-vineppo-refining-credit-assignment-rl/)** *(2024 · 63 citations)* When large language models are trained with reinforcement learning on multi-step reasoning, the reward arrives only at the end. 2. **[DeepSeek-R1 Thoughtology: Let's think about LLM Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/marjanovic-2025-deepseek-r1-thoughtology-let-s/)** *(2025 · 47 citations)* Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) produce long reasoning chains before giving an answer. Their internal behaviour has been hard to study because OpenAI's o1 hides its thoughts. DeepSeek-R1 exposes its reasoning, so the authors use it to launch a research programme they call "Thoughtology." ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aaron Courville](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-courville/) - [Alessandro Sordoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-sordoni/) - [Amirhossein Kazemnejad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amirhossein-kazemnejad/) - [Arkil Patel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arkil-patel/) - [Benno Krojer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benno-krojer/) - [Dongchan Shin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dongchan-shin/) - [Mehar Bhatia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehar-bhatia/) - [Nicholas Meade](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-meade/) - [Nicolas Le Roux](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicolas-le-roux/) - [Parishad BehnamGhader](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/parishad-behnamghader/) - [Sara Vera Marjanovic](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sara-vera-marjanovic/) - [Siva Reddy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siva-reddy/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 109 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [43 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/milad-aghajohari/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026