--- title: "Mohammad Gheshlaghi Azar — author profile and papers" description: "Mohammad Gheshlaghi Azar: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023), h-index 21 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-gheshlaghi-azar/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-gheshlaghi-azar/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mohammad Gheshlaghi Azar # Mohammad Gheshlaghi Azar Mohammad Gheshlaghi Azar has 2 papers in our library, in 2023; often with [Daniele Calandriello](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniele-calandriello/), [Mark Rowland](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-rowland/), [Michal Valko](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michal-valko/). 2 papers in our library · 2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5043355670) · [**h-index 21**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5043355670) · [72 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5043355670) · [7,051 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5043355670&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-gheshlaghi-azar/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 560 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-gheshlaghi-azar/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5773](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/58/#star-5773) 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=Mohammad+Gheshlaghi+Azar) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mohammad+Gheshlaghi+Azar) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mohammad+Gheshlaghi+Azar) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mohammad+Gheshlaghi+Azar) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2017–2023 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🎓**Northwestern University** Evanston · United States 2014–2021 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/northwestern-university/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2013 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**Radboud University Nijmegen** Nijmegen · Netherlands 2010–2013 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/radboud-university-nijmegen/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2017–2019 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🏥**Shirley Ryan AbilityLab** Chicago · United States 2014–2017 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/02ja0m249) 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 6 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Management Science and Operations Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/management-science-and-operations-research/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-gheshlaghi-azar/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A General Theoretical Paradigm to Understand Learning from Human Preferences](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/azar-2023-general-theoretical-paradigm-understand-learning/)** *(2023 · 263 citations)* This paper by researchers at Google DeepMind provides a theoretical foundation for methods that train language models from human preferences. 2. **[Nash Learning from Human Feedback](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/munos-2023-nash-learning-human-feedback/)** *(2023 · 32 citations)* Standard RLHF reduces pairwise human judgments to a scalar reward, typically through a Bradley-Terry model, and then optimizes the LLM against that score. ## 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. **[Bootstrap your own latent: A new approach to self-supervised Learning ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.07733) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Jean-Bastien Grill et al.*2020 · 3,531 citations* 2. **[Noisy Networks for Exploration ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.10295) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Meire Fortunato et al.*2017 · 570 citations* 3. [**A General Theoretical Paradigm to Understand Learning from Human Preferences arXiv:2310.12036**Mohammad Gheshlaghi Azar, Mark Rowland, Bilal Piot, et al.*2023 · 263 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/azar-2023-general-theoretical-paradigm-understand-learning/) 4. [**Nash Learning from Human Feedback arXiv:2312.00886**Remi Munos, Michal Valko, Daniele Calandriello, et al.*2023 · 32 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/munos-2023-nash-learning-human-feedback/) ## Co-authors here 9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Daniele Calandriello](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniele-calandriello/) ×2 - [Mark Rowland](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mark-rowland/) ×2 - [Michal Valko](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michal-valko/) ×2 - [Rémi Munos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/remi-munos/) ×2 - [Andrea Michi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrea-michi/) - [Bilal Piot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bilal-piot/) - [Daniel Guo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-guo/) - [Matthieu Geist](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthieu-geist/) - [Sertan Girgin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sertan-girgin/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 560 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [94 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohammad-gheshlaghi-azar/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026