--- title: "Osbert Bastani — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Osbert Bastani, Google: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2016–2023), h-index 28 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osbert-bastani/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osbert-bastani/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Osbert Bastani # Osbert Bastani Osbert Bastani has 2 papers in our library, in 2016–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Alex Aiken](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-aiken/), [Anima Anandkumar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anima-anandkumar/), [De-An Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/de-an-huang/). 2 papers in our library · 2016–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5029243071) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9990-7566) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130887699) · [**h-index 28**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5029243071) · [210 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029243071) · [3,216 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029243071&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osbert-bastani/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 380 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osbert-bastani/cited-by/) · [11 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7542](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/76/#star-7542) 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=Osbert+Bastani) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Osbert+Bastani) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Osbert+Bastani) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Osbert+Bastani) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Pennsylvania** Philadelphia · United States 2018–2026 · 125 papersEmployment 2018–2022 · Research Assistant Professor, Computer and Information ScienceEmployment 2022–2025 · Assistant Professor, Computer and Information ScienceEmployment since 2025 · Associate Professor, Computer and Information Science*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-pennsylvania/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🏢**Health Decisions** Durham · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/050ey5v22) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2013–2018 · 16 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2018 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) 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/) · [Control and Systems Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/control-and-systems-engineering/) · [Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) · [Software · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/software/) 🧭 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 [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osbert-bastani/year/2023/) ### 2010s [**2016** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osbert-bastani/year/2016/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Eureka: Human-Level Reward Design via Coding Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2023-eureka-human-level-reward-design/)** *(2023 · 142 citations)* Hand-crafting reward functions for reinforcement learning is slow, relies on trial and error, and often yields sub-optimal results. 2. **[Synthesizing Program Input Grammars](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bastani-2016-synthesizing-program-input-grammars/)** *(2016 · 2 citations)* The paper addresses the problem of automatically inferring a grammar of a program's valid inputs. Official format specifications are often incomplete or not written in machine-readable form. The authors work in a blackbox setting: the program's source code is unavailable, and there are only a few examples of valid… ## All works 13 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Zero-Shot Learning Through Cross-Modal Transfer ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3666) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Richard Socher et al.*2013 · 863 citations* 2. **[Open X-Embodiment: Robotic Learning Datasets and RT-X Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08864) arXiv:2310.08864 · no summary yet**Embodiment Collaboration et al.*2023 · 204 citations* 3. [**Eureka: Human-Level Reward Design via Coding Large Language Models arXiv:2310.12931**Yecheng Jason Ma, William Liang, Guanzhi Wang, et al.*2023 · 142 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ma-2023-eureka-human-level-reward-design/) 4. **[Learning Performance-Improving Code Edits ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07867) arXiv:2302.07867 · no summary yet**Alexander Shypula et al.*2024 · 76 citations* 5. **[DrEureka: Language Model Guided Sim-To-Real Transfer ↗](https://doi.org/10.15607/rss.2024.xx.094) arXiv:2406.01967 · no summary yet**Yecheng Jason Ma et al.*2024 · 44 citations* 6. **[Automated High-Level Code Optimization for Warehouse Performance ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/mm.2025.3590033) IEEE Micro · no summary yet**Alexander Shypula et al.*2025 · 4 citations* 7. **[Stanford's 2013 KBP System ↗](https://openalex.org/W2295082727) Theory and applications of categories · no summary yet**Gabor Angeli et al.*2013 · 3 citations* 8. [**Synthesizing Program Input Grammars arXiv:1608.01723**Osbert Bastani, Rahul Sharma, Alex Aiken, et al.*2016 · 2 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bastani-2016-synthesizing-program-input-grammars/) 9. **[Understanding Robust Generalization in Learning Regular Languages ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.09717) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Soham Dan, Osbert Bastani, Dan Roth*2022 · 1 citation* 10. **[Few-Shot Novel Concept Learning for Semantic Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-emnlp.177/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021 · no summary yet**Soham Dan, Osbert Bastani, Dan Roth*2021 · 1 citation* 11. **[Self-Driving Datasets: From 20 Million Papers to Nuanced Biomedical Knowledge at Scale ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07022) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Haydn Jones et al.*2026* 12. **[Purely Agent-Driven Black-Box Optimization for Biological Design ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.22382) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Natalie Maus et al.*2026* 13. **[We describe Stanford’s entry in the TAC- ↗](https://openalex.org/W7100370266) no summary yet**Gabor Angeli et al.*2015* ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alex Aiken](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-aiken/) - [Anima Anandkumar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anima-anandkumar/) - [De-An Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/de-an-huang/) - [Guanzhi Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guanzhi-wang/) - [Linxi Fan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/linxi-fan/) - [Percy Liang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/percy-liang/) - [Rahul Sharma](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rahul-sharma/) - [Yuke Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuke-zhu/) ## 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: EMNLP 2021 - IEEE Micro - Theory and applications of categories ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 380 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [59 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/osbert-bastani/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026