--- title: "Pouya Pezeshkpour — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Pouya Pezeshkpour, University of California, Irvine: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2021–2023), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pouya-pezeshkpour/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pouya-pezeshkpour/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Pouya Pezeshkpour # Pouya Pezeshkpour Pouya Pezeshkpour has 3 papers in our library, in 2021–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/); often with [Arman Cohan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arman-cohan/), [Daniel Khashabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-khashabi/), [Estevam Hruschka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/estevam-hruschka/). 3 papers in our library · 2021–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5022655234) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7055-0035) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5022655234) · [58 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5022655234) · [999 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5022655234&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pouya-pezeshkpour/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,476 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pouya-pezeshkpour/cited-by/) · [2 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5130](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/52/#star-5130) 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=Pouya+Pezeshkpour) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Pouya+Pezeshkpour) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Pouya+Pezeshkpour) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Pouya+Pezeshkpour) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California, Irvine** Irvine · United States 2017–2026 · 19 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-irvine/) · [🎓**Sharif University of Technology** Tehran · Iran 2014–2015 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/sharif-university-of-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pouya-pezeshkpour/year/2023/) · [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pouya-pezeshkpour/year/2021/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Large Language Models Sensitivity to The Order of Options in Multiple-Choice Questions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pezeshkpour-2023-large-language-models-sensitivity-order/)** *(2023 · 261 citations)* This paper asks how much the order of answer options affects large language models on multiple-choice questions (MCQ). 2. **[ParsiNLU: A Suite of Language Understanding Challenges for Persian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khashabi-2021-parsinlu-suite-language-understanding-challenges/)** *(2021 · 65 citations)* Persian is spoken by tens of millions of people, yet it has had very few benchmarks for high-level language understanding. 3. **[Measuring and Modifying Factual Knowledge in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pezeshkpour-2023-measuring-modifying-factual-knowledge-large/)** *(2023 · 30 citations)* Fact probing of LLMs usually checks how highly the correct answer ranks in fill-in-the-blank predictions. This treats knowledge as yes/no, depends heavily on prompt wording, and ignores most of the output distribution. Pezeshkpour proposes information-theoretic scores instead. A model is considered to know a fact if… ## All works 5 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. **[Large Language Models Sensitivity to The Order of Options in Multiple-Choice Questions](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pezeshkpour-2023-large-language-models-sensitivity-order/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Pouya Pezeshkpour, Estevam Hruschka*2023 · 261 citations* 2. **[Embedding Multimodal Relational Data for Knowledge Base Completion ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D18-1359/) Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Pouya Pezeshkpour, Liyan Chen, Sameer Singh*2018 · 156 citations* 3. **[Investigating Robustness and Interpretability of Link Prediction via Adversarial Modifications ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N19-1337/) Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers) · no summary yet**Pouya Pezeshkpour, Yifan Tian, Sameer Singh*2019 · 80 citations* 4. **[ParsiNLU: A Suite of Language Understanding Challenges for Persian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/khashabi-2021-parsinlu-suite-language-understanding-challenges/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Daniel Khashabi, Arman Cohan, Siamak Shakeri, et al.*2021 · 65 citations* 5. [**Measuring and Modifying Factual Knowledge in Large Language Models arXiv:2306.06264**Pouya Pezeshkpour*2023 · 30 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pezeshkpour-2023-measuring-modifying-factual-knowledge-large/) ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Arman Cohan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arman-cohan/) - [Daniel Khashabi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/daniel-khashabi/) - [Estevam Hruschka](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/estevam-hruschka/) - [Faeze Brahman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/faeze-brahman/) - [Malihe Alikhani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/malihe-alikhani/) - [Siamak Shakeri](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siamak-shakeri/) ## 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/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2021](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2021/) - Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing - Proceedings of the 2019 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long and Short Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,476 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [396 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pouya-pezeshkpour/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026