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# Moin Nabi

Moin Nabi has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Aurélie Herbelot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aurelie-herbelot/), [Iman Mirzadeh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iman-mirzadeh/), [Mehrdad Farajtabar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehrdad-farajtabar/).

2 papers in our library · 2017–2024

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5001459748) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7559-9888) · [**h-index 23**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5001459748) · [78 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5001459748) · [3,147 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5001459748&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moin-nabi/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 117 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moin-nabi/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6378](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/64/#star-6378)

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=Moin+Nabi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Moin+Nabi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Moin+Nabi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Moin+Nabi)

## Affiliations

[🏢**Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing** Walldorf · Germany 2018–2022 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/systems-applications-products-in-data-processing-germany/) · [🎓**University of Trento** Trento · Italy 2015–2021 · 15 papersEmployment since 2015 · Post-doc, DISI](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-trento/) · [🏢**Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing** London · United Kingdom 2019–2023 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/systems-applications-products-in-data-processing/) · [🔬**Italian Institute of Technology** Genoa · Italy 2012–2015 · 4 papersEducation 2012–2015 · PhD, PAVIS](https://ror.org/042t93s57) · [🏢**Apple** Cupertino · United States 2024–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/apple/)

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

## 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 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

[**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moin-nabi/year/2024/)

### 2010s

[**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moin-nabi/year/2017/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[FOIL it! Find One mismatch between Image and Language caption](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shekhar-2017-foil-it-find-one-mismatch/)** *(2017 · 127 citations)* The paper asks whether language-and-vision (LaVi) models really link text to image content or mostly rely on language priors.
2. **[Scaling Smart: Accelerating Large Language Model Pre-training with Small Model Initialization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/samragh-2024-scaling-smart-accelerating-large-language/)** *(2024 · 8 citations)* Training large language models from random weights is slow and costly, while small models are cheap but less accurate.

## All works

5 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. **[Learning to Remember: A Synaptic Plasticity Driven Framework for Continual Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2019.01158) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Oleksiy Ostapenko et al.*2019 · 291 citations*
2. **[A Unified Objective for Novel Class Discovery ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/iccv48922.2021.00915) IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · no summary yet**Enrico Fini et al.*2021 · 195 citations*
3. **[FOIL it! Find One mismatch between Image and Language caption](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shekhar-2017-foil-it-find-one-mismatch/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Ravi Shekhar, Sandro Pezzelle, Yauhen Klimovich, et al.*2017 · 127 citations*
4. **[Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning for Commonsense Reasoning ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.671/) Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Tassilo Klein, Moin Nabi*2020 · 82 citations*
5. [**Scaling Smart: Accelerating Large Language Model Pre-training with Small Model Initialization arXiv:2409.12903**Mohammad Samragh, Iman Mirzadeh, Keivan Alizadeh Vahid, et al.*2024 · 8 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/samragh-2024-scaling-smart-accelerating-large-language/)

## Co-authors here

7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Aurélie Herbelot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aurelie-herbelot/)
- [Iman Mirzadeh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iman-mirzadeh/)
- [Mehrdad Farajtabar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehrdad-farajtabar/)
- [Minsik Cho](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/minsik-cho/)
- [Raffaella Bernardi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/raffaella-bernardi/)
- [Ravi Shekhar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ravi-shekhar/)
- [Sandro Pezzelle](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sandro-pezzelle/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/) ×2: [ACL 2017](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2017/)
- IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings
- IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 117 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [8 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/moin-nabi/cited-by/).

Updated 1 November 2026
