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# Mukund Sundararajan

Mukund Sundararajan has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2020; often with [Frederick Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frederick-liu/), [Satyen Kale](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/satyen-kale/).

2 papers in our library · 2018–2020

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5102759846) · [**h-index 25**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5102759846) · [99 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102759846) · [2,507 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102759846&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mukund-sundararajan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 3,688 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mukund-sundararajan/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4601](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/47/#star-4601)

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

## Affiliations

[🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2010–2023 · 28 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2004–2009 · 22 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/)

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 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/) · [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/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mukund-sundararajan/year/2020/)

### 2010s

[**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mukund-sundararajan/year/2018/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Estimating Training Data Influence by Tracing Gradient Descent](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pruthi-2020-estimating-training-data-influence-tracing/)** *(2020 · 223 citations)* The paper asks which training examples are responsible for a model's prediction on a given input. The authors propose TracIn. It attributes to each training example the drop in the test example's loss that occurred during the optimization steps where that example was used. The exact version would require knowing the…
2. **[Did the Model Understand the Question?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mudrakarta-2018-did-model-understand-question/)** *(2018 · 214 citations)* The paper asks whether high-accuracy question answering networks actually use the meaningful words in a question.

## All works

3 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. [**Estimating Training Data Influence by Tracing Gradient Descent arXiv:2002.08484**Garima Pruthi, Frederick Liu, Mukund Sundararajan, et al.*2020 · 223 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pruthi-2020-estimating-training-data-influence-tracing/)
2. **[Did the Model Understand the Question?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mudrakarta-2018-did-model-understand-question/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Pramod Kaushik Mudrakarta, Ankur Taly, Mukund Sundararajan, et al.*2018 · 214 citations*
3. **[A Learning-Based Approach to Reactive Security ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/tdsc.2011.42) IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing · no summary yet**Adam Barth et al.*2011 · 43 citations*

## Co-authors here

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

- [Frederick Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frederick-liu/)
- [Satyen Kale](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/satyen-kale/)

## 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/): [ACL 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2018/)
- IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 3,688 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [822 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mukund-sundararajan/cited-by/).

Updated 2 November 2026
