--- title: "Nishanth Dikkala — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Nishanth Dikkala: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nishanth-dikkala/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nishanth-dikkala/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Nishanth Dikkala # Nishanth Dikkala Nishanth Dikkala has 3 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, 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/); often with [Bahare Fatemi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bahare-fatemi/), [Gladys Tyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gladys-tyen/), [Hritik Bansal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hritik-bansal/). 3 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5000758286) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5796-3559) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5000758286) · [38 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5000758286) · [308 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5000758286&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nishanth-dikkala/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 97 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nishanth-dikkala/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8082](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/81/#star-8082) 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=Nishanth+Dikkala) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Nishanth+Dikkala) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Nishanth+Dikkala) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Nishanth+Dikkala) ## Affiliations [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2015–2021 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2021–2025 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [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/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 3 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** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nishanth-dikkala/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nishanth-dikkala/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[BIG-Bench Extra Hard](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kazemi-2025-big-bench-extra-hard/)** *(2025 · 58 citations)* BIG-Bench Hard (BBH) used to be the standard test of broad, non-mathematical reasoning in LLMs. Frontier systems now score above 90% on it, so it no longer separates strong models from each other. The authors present BIG-Bench Extra Hard (BBEH), which swaps each of the 23 BBH tasks for a new, much tougher task that… 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. **[Causal Language Modeling Can Elicit Search and Reasoning Capabilities on Logic Puzzles](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shah-2024-causal-language-modeling-elicit-search/)** *(2024 · 12 citations)* The paper examines whether Transformers trained only with next-token prediction can learn real search and reasoning, using Sudoku and Zebra (Einstein) logic puzzles as controlled synthetic tasks. ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Bahare Fatemi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bahare-fatemi/) - [Gladys Tyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gladys-tyen/) - [Hritik Bansal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hritik-bansal/) - [John Palowitch](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-palowitch/) - [Mehran Kazemi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehran-kazemi/) - [Nikunj Saunshi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nikunj-saunshi/) - [Peter Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/peter-chen/) - [Sanjiv Kumar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanjiv-kumar/) - [Sanket Vaibhav Mehta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sanket-vaibhav-mehta/) - [Sashank Jakkam Reddi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sashank-jakkam-reddi/) - [Xin Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xin-wang/) - [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. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/): [NeurIPS 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/neural-information-processing-systems/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 97 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [34 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nishanth-dikkala/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026