--- title: "Minae Kwon · Stanford University — author profile and papers" description: "Minae Kwon, Stanford University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2023), h-index 13 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minae-kwon/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minae-kwon/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Minae Kwon # Minae Kwon Minae Kwon has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Dorsa Sadigh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dorsa-sadigh/), [Noah D. Goodman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-d-goodman/), [Robert Hawkins](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-hawkins/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5043538173) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3116-330X) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125902707) · [**h-index 13**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5043538173) · [20 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5043538173) · [776 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5043538173&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minae-kwon/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 216 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minae-kwon/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7725](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/78/#star-7725) 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=Minae+Kwon) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Minae+Kwon) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Minae+Kwon) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Minae+Kwon) ## Affiliations [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2018–2024 · 15 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**Cornell University** Ithaca · United States 2016–2018 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/cornell-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 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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minae-kwon/year/2023/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minae-kwon/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Reward Design with Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kwon-2023-reward-design-language-models/)** *(2023 · 73 citations)* Telling an RL agent what to do is difficult. Hand-written reward functions struggle to capture fuzzy goals, such as wanting a negotiator to be "versatile," and they are prone to reward hacking. Learning rewards from labels instead requires large, costly datasets that must be gathered again for every new user. The… 2. **[Continual Adaptation for Efficient Machine Communication](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hawkins-2020-continual-adaptation-efficient-machine-communication/)** *(2020 · 38 citations)* Neural language models can reproduce the conventions in their training data, but unlike people they cannot invent new shorthand with a specific partner during an interaction. ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Human-level play in the game of Diplomacy by combining language models with strategic reasoning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ade9097) Science · no summary yet**Anton Bakhtin et al.*2022 · 328 citations* 2. **[Evaluating Human-Language Model Interaction ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.09746) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Mina Lee et al.*2022 · 110 citations* 3. [**Reward Design with Language Models arXiv:2303.00001**Minae Kwon, Sang Michael Xie, Kalesha Bullard, et al.*2023 · 73 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kwon-2023-reward-design-language-models/) 4. **[Continual Adaptation for Efficient Machine Communication](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hawkins-2020-continual-adaptation-efficient-machine-communication/) [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/)**Robert Hawkins, Minae Kwon, Dorsa Sadigh, et al.*2020 · 38 citations* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dorsa Sadigh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dorsa-sadigh/) ×2 - [Noah D. Goodman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-d-goodman/) - [Robert Hawkins](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-hawkins/) - [Sang Michael Xie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sang-michael-xie/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/): [CoNLL 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/conll/2020/) - Science ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 216 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [57 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minae-kwon/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026