--- title: "Mrinank Sharma — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Mrinank Sharma: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mrinank-sharma/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mrinank-sharma/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Mrinank Sharma # Mrinank Sharma Mrinank Sharma has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, 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/), [Meg Tong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meg-tong/), [Cem Anil](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cem-anil/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5003223014) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4304-7963) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104479142) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5003223014) · [37 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5003223014) · [1,906 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5003223014&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mrinank-sharma/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 449 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mrinank-sharma/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4276](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/43/#star-4276) 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=Mrinank+Sharma) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Mrinank+Sharma) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Mrinank+Sharma) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Mrinank+Sharma) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Oxford** Oxford · United Kingdom 2019–2025 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oxford/) · [🏢**Anthropic** San Francisco · United States 2024–2026 · 2 papersEmployment until 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/anthropic/) 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/) · [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/) · [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 [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mrinank-sharma/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mrinank-sharma/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2023-towards-understanding-sycophancy-language-models/)** *(2023 · 384 citations)* The paper looks at sycophancy: AI assistants telling users what they seem to want to hear instead of what is accurate. 2. **[Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against Universal Jailbreaks across Thousands of Hours of Red Teaming](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2025-constitutional-classifiers-defending-against-universal/)** *(2025 · 29 citations)* The paper tackles universal jailbreaks: prompting strategies that consistently get past an LLM's safeguards across almost all queries in a domain. In the CBRN domain, such attacks could give non-experts step-by-step help with dangerous procedures. ## All works 6 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. [**Towards Understanding Sycophancy in Language Models arXiv:2310.13548**Mrinank Sharma, Meg Tong, Tomasz Korbak, et al.*2023 · 384 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2023-towards-understanding-sycophancy-language-models/) 2. **[Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05566) arXiv:2401.05566 · no summary yet**Evan Hubinger et al.*2024 · 123 citations* 3. **[Many-shot Jailbreaking ↗](https://doi.org/10.52202/079017-4121) neural information processing systems · no summary yet**Cem Anil et al.*2024 · 109 citations* 4. [**Constitutional Classifiers: Defending against Universal Jailbreaks across Thousands of Hours of Red Teaming arXiv:2501.18837**Mrinank Sharma, Meg Tong, Jesse Mu, et al.*2025 · 29 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2025-constitutional-classifiers-defending-against-universal/) 5. **[Forecasting Rare Language Model Behaviors ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.16797) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Erik Jones et al.*2025 · 3 citations* 6. **[Constitutional Classifiers++: Efficient Production-Grade Defenses against Universal Jailbreaks ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04603) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Hoagy Cunningham et al.*2026 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Amanda Askell](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amanda-askell/) ×2 - [Meg Tong](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/meg-tong/) ×2 - [Cem Anil](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/cem-anil/) - [David Duvenaud](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-duvenaud/) - [Esin Durmus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/esin-durmus/) - [Jerry Wei](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jerry-wei/) - [Jesse Mu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jesse-mu/) - [Samuel R. Bowman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-r-bowman/) - [Scott Johnston](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/scott-johnston/) - [Tomasz Korbak](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tomasz-korbak/) - [Zac Hatfield-Dodds](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zac-hatfield-dodds/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - neural information processing systems ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 449 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [89 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mrinank-sharma/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026