--- title: "Monte MacDiarmid — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Monte MacDiarmid: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/monte-macdiarmid/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/monte-macdiarmid/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Monte MacDiarmid # Monte MacDiarmid Monte MacDiarmid has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Bias, fairness & safety](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/); often with [Amanda Askell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amanda-askell/), [Carson Denison](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carson-denison/), [Daniel M. Ziegler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-m-ziegler/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5084608104) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5084608104) · [11 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5084608104) · [127 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5084608104&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/monte-macdiarmid/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 401 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/monte-macdiarmid/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5134](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/52/#star-5134) 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=Monte+MacDiarmid) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Monte+MacDiarmid) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Monte+MacDiarmid) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Monte+MacDiarmid) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Oxford** Oxford · United Kingdom 2007–2024 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oxford/) 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 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/) · [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/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Bias, fairness & safety · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/monte-macdiarmid/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/monte-macdiarmid/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Steering Language Models With Activation Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/turner-2023-steering-language-models-activation-engineering/)** *(2023 · 233 citations)* Large language models often have abilities that ordinary prompting or finetuning does not bring out. The authors call this gap an "elicitation overhang". To narrow it, they describe a family of methods called activation engineering, which edits a model's internal activations while it generates text. Their method… 2. **[Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hubinger-2024-sleeper-agents-training-deceptive-llms/)** *(2024 · 123 citations)* The paper asks whether an LLM that has learned a hidden, trigger-dependent harmful policy could be cleaned up by today's standard safety training. ## 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. [**Steering Language Models With Activation Engineering arXiv:2308.10248**Alexander Matt Turner, Lisa Thiergart, Gavin Leech, et al.*2023 · 233 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/turner-2023-steering-language-models-activation-engineering/) 2. [**Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training arXiv:2401.05566**Evan Hubinger, Carson Denison, Jesse Mu, et al.*2024 · 123 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hubinger-2024-sleeper-agents-training-deceptive-llms/) 3. **[Alignment faking in large language models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14093) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Ryan Greenblatt et al.*2024 · 82 citations* 4. **[Sycophancy to Subterfuge: Investigating Reward-Tampering in Large Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10162) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Carson Denison et al.*2024 · 46 citations* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Amanda Askell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amanda-askell/) - [Carson Denison](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carson-denison/) - [Daniel M. Ziegler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-m-ziegler/) - [Evan Hubinger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/evan-hubinger/) - [Jesse Mu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jesse-mu/) - [Meg Tong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meg-tong/) - [Newton Cheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/newton-cheng/) - [Tamera Lanham](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tamera-lanham/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 401 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [108 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/monte-macdiarmid/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026