--- title: "Natalia Vassilieva — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Natalia Vassilieva, Cerebras Systems: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 8 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/natalia-vassilieva/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/natalia-vassilieva/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Natalia Vassilieva # Natalia Vassilieva Natalia Vassilieva 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/); often with [Joel Hestness](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joel-hestness/), [Biswajit Mishra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/biswajit-mishra/), [Bokang Jia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bokang-jia/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5066061534) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3410-9277) · [**h-index 8**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5066061534) · [26 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5066061534) · [329 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5066061534&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/natalia-vassilieva/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 58 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/natalia-vassilieva/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7957](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/80/#star-7957) 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=Natalia+Vassilieva) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Natalia+Vassilieva) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Natalia+Vassilieva) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Natalia+Vassilieva) ## Affiliations [🏢**Cerebras Systems** Sunnyvale · United States 2019–2026 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/cerebras-systems/) · [🏢**Hewlett-Packard** Palo Alto · United States 2011–2013 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/hewlett-packard/) · [🎓**Moscow State Institute of International Relations** Moscow · Russia 1999–2021 · 1 paperEducationEmployment since 1999 · an associate professor, Department of International Relations and Foreign Policy of Russia](https://ror.org/04zn7jb34) 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 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/) · [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/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](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/natalia-vassilieva/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/natalia-vassilieva/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[SlimPajama-DC: Understanding Data Combinations for LLM Training](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shen-2023-slimpajama-dc-understanding-data-combinations/)** *(2023 · 38 citations)* Pretraining corpora for LLMs are usually built from several sources, such as web crawls, code, books, and Wikipedia. 2. **[Bilingual Adaptation of Monolingual Foundation Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gosal-2024-bilingual-adaptation-monolingual-foundation-models/)** *(2024 · 7 citations)* English-dominant open LLMs such as Llama 2 handle other languages poorly. Training a bilingual model from scratch is costly and tends to give weaker English. Adapting an existing model brings its own problems: it can forget English, and its English-centric tokenizer splits foreign text into many pieces. The authors… ## Co-authors here 12 of 14 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Joel Hestness](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joel-hestness/) ×2 - [Biswajit Mishra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/biswajit-mishra/) - [Bokang Jia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bokang-jia/) - [Bowen Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bowen-tan/) - [Eric P. Xing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eric-p-xing/) - [Gokul Ramakrishnan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gokul-ramakrishnan/) - [Gurpreet Gosal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gurpreet-gosal/) - [Liqun Ma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/liqun-ma/) - [Neha Sengupta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/neha-sengupta/) - [Rituraj Joshi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rituraj-joshi/) - [Sunil Kumar Sahu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sunil-kumar-sahu/) - [Zhengzhong Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhengzhong-liu/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 58 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [28 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/natalia-vassilieva/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026