--- title: "Ray Mooney — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Ray Mooney, Georgia Institute of Technology: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ray-mooney/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ray-mooney/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ray Mooney # Ray Mooney Ray Mooney has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Ali Payani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ali-payani/), [Chi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chi-zhang/), [Huan Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huan-sun/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5110250940) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5110250940) · [12 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5110250940) · [37 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5110250940&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ray-mooney/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 24 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ray-mooney/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8480](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/85/#star-8480) 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=Ray+Mooney) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ray+Mooney) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ray+Mooney) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ray+Mooney) ## Affiliations [🎓**The University of Texas at Austin** Austin · United States 2022–2025 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/) · [🎓**Georgia Institute of Technology** Atlanta · United States 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/georgia-institute-of-technology/) 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).[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/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Sociology and Political Science · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/sociology-and-political-science/) 🧭 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** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ray-mooney/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ray-mooney/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[When is Tree Search Useful for LLM Planning? It Depends on the Discriminator](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chen-2024-when-is-tree-search-useful/)** *(2024 · 28 citations)* The paper asks when sophisticated planning strategies actually help LLM agents on multi-step tasks. The authors model an agent as three components: a generator that proposes programs, a discriminator that scores them as a yes/no correctness question, and a planning method. They compare re-ranking with iterative… 2. **[Do Images Speak Louder than Words? Investigating the Effect of Textual Misinformation in VLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-do-images-speak-louder-than/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* The paper asks how vision-language models handle a conflict between what an image shows and what accompanying text claims. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ali Payani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ali-payani/) - [Chi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chi-zhang/) - [Huan Sun](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huan-sun/) - [Jiale Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jiale-liu/) - [Michael White](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-white/) - [Qingyun Wu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/qingyun-wu/) - [Wenxuan Ding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wenxuan-ding/) - [Yu Su](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yu-su/) ## 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 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2024/) - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 24 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [5 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ray-mooney/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026