--- title: "Nikolay Malkin — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Nikolay Malkin, University of Edinburgh: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 9 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolay-malkin/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolay-malkin/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Nikolay Malkin # Nikolay Malkin Nikolay Malkin has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Aaron Courville](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-courville/), [Alessandro Sordoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-sordoni/), [Arian Hosseini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arian-hosseini/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5068089852) · [**h-index 9**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5068089852) · [65 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5068089852) · [260 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5068089852&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolay-malkin/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 121 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolay-malkin/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7767](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/78/#star-7767) 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=Nikolay+Malkin) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Nikolay+Malkin) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Nikolay+Malkin) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Nikolay+Malkin) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Edinburgh** Edinburgh · United Kingdom 2023–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-edinburgh/) · [🎓**Université de Montréal** Montreal · Canada 2022–2024 · 19 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-de-montreal/) · [🔬**Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute** Montreal · Canada 2021–2025 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mila-quebec-artificial-intelligence-institute/) · [🎓**Yale University** New Haven · United States 2020–2021 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/yale-university/) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2021–2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) 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 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolay-malkin/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[V-STaR: Training Verifiers for Self-Taught Reasoners](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hosseini-2024-v-star-training-verifiers-self/)** *(2024 · 114 citations)* Self-improvement methods for LLMs, such as STaR, RFT and ReST-EM, fine-tune a model on solutions it generated itself. 2. **[Machine learning and information theory concepts towards an AI Mathematician](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bengio-2024-machine-learning-information-theory-concepts/)** *(2024 · 18 citations)* This position essay asks why modern AI handles language well but still struggles with mathematical reasoning, and what objective could drive mathematical discovery rather than just proving given theorems. ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aaron Courville](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-courville/) - [Alessandro Sordoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-sordoni/) - [Arian Hosseini](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arian-hosseini/) - [Rishabh Agarwal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rishabh-agarwal/) - [Xingdi Yuan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xingdi-yuan/) - [Yoshua Bengio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoshua-bengio/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bulletin-of-the-american-mathematical-society/): [Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/bulletin-of-the-american-mathematical-society/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 121 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [56 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikolay-malkin/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026