--- title: "Omar Naim — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Omar Naim, Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-naim/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-naim/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Omar Naim # Omar Naim Omar Naim has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Nicholas Asher](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-asher/), [Krish Sharma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/krish-sharma/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5114302110) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0006-2924-0421) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5114302110) · [13 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5114302110) · [4 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5114302110&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-naim/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 2 times in our library · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11235](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/113/#star-11235) 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=Omar+Naim) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Omar+Naim) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Omar+Naim) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Omar+Naim) ## Affiliations [🔬**Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse** Toulouse · France 2024–2026 · 10 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/institut-de-recherche-en-informatique-de-toulouse/) · [🎓**Université de Toulouse** Toulouse · France 2025–2026 · 8 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-de-toulouse/) 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/omar-naim/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[SSA: Improving Performance With a Better Scoring Function](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/naim-2026-ssa-improving-performance-better-scoring/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Transformers trained for in-context learning (ICL) often break down under simple distribution shifts. The authors trace part of this failure to Softmax, the attention scoring function. They train small GPT-2-style models from scratch on two synthetic ICL tasks. One task judges "every" and "some" statements over… 2. **[TELL-TALE: Task Efficient LLMs with Task Aware Layer Elimination](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/naim-2026-tell-tale-task-efficient-llms/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Modern LLMs run every input through all of their layers, yet many layers contribute little or even hurt accuracy on a specific downstream task. ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Nicholas Asher](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicholas-asher/) ×2 - [Krish Sharma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/krish-sharma/) ## 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 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). Updated 31 October 2026