--- title: "Nikunj Saunshi — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Nikunj Saunshi, Google: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2025), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikunj-saunshi/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikunj-saunshi/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Nikunj Saunshi # Nikunj Saunshi Nikunj Saunshi has 3 papers in our library, in 2018–2025, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/); often with [Nishanth Dikkala](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nishanth-dikkala/), [Sanjiv Kumar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanjiv-kumar/), [Sashank Jakkam Reddi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sashank-jakkam-reddi/). 3 papers in our library · 2018–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5066076737) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5066076737) · [29 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5066076737) · [681 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5066076737&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikunj-saunshi/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 179 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikunj-saunshi/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5445](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/55/#star-5445) 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=Nikunj+Saunshi) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Nikunj+Saunshi) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Nikunj+Saunshi) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Nikunj+Saunshi) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2023–2025 · 7 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**Princeton University** Princeton · United States 2018–2024 · 16 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/princeton-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 7 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) · [Social Psychology · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/social-psychology/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) · [Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikunj-saunshi/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikunj-saunshi/year/2023/) ### 2010s [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikunj-saunshi/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Large Self-Annotated Corpus for Sarcasm](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khodak-2018-large-self-annotated-corpus-sarcasm/)** *(2018 · 258 citations)* Sarcasm is hard to detect because it is rare and even people often miss it. Earlier datasets were small or artificially balanced, were labelled by outside annotators, or were made of short tweets. The authors built SARC (Self-Annotated Reddit Corpus) from Reddit comments posted between January 2009 and April 2017.… 2. **[Reasoning with Latent Thoughts: On the Power of Looped Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saunshi-2025-reasoning-latent-thoughts-power-looped/)** *(2025 · 44 citations)* The authors, from Google Research and TTIC, test whether reasoning requires a large number of parameters. Their hypothesis is that for many such tasks, what matters most is the model's depth. To test this, they use a "looped" transformer. In it, the same block of k layers with shared weights is applied to the input L… 3. **[Reasoning in Large Language Models Through Symbolic Math Word Problems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gaur-2023-reasoning-large-language-models-through/)** *(2023 · 31 citations)* The paper asks how to judge whether large language models actually reason when they solve math word problems, rather than only checking whether the final answer is correct. ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[A Large Self-Annotated Corpus for Sarcasm](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khodak-2018-large-self-annotated-corpus-sarcasm/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Mikhail Khodak, Nikunj Saunshi, Kiran Vodrahalli*2018 · 258 citations* 2. **[A La Carte Embedding: Cheap but Effective Induction of Semantic Feature Vectors ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P18-1002/) Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Mikhail Khodak et al.*2018 · 128 citations* 3. [**Reasoning with Latent Thoughts: On the Power of Looped Transformers arXiv:2502.17416**Nikunj Saunshi, Nishanth Dikkala, Zhiyuan Li, et al.*2025 · 44 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/saunshi-2025-reasoning-latent-thoughts-power-looped/) 4. **[Reasoning in Large Language Models Through Symbolic Math Word Problems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gaur-2023-reasoning-large-language-models-through/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Vedant Gaur, Nikunj Saunshi*2023 · 31 citations* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Nishanth Dikkala](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nishanth-dikkala/) - [Sanjiv Kumar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanjiv-kumar/) - [Sashank Jakkam Reddi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sashank-jakkam-reddi/) - [Zhiyuan Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhiyuan-li/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2023/) - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2018/) - Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 179 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [74 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikunj-saunshi/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026