--- title: "Samuel L Smith — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Samuel L Smith: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2017–2023), h-index 30 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-l-smith/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-l-smith/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Samuel L Smith # Samuel L Smith Samuel L Smith has 2 papers in our library, in 2017–2023; often with [Albert Gu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/albert-gu/), [Antonio Orvieto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antonio-orvieto/), [Caglar Gulcehre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caglar-gulcehre/). 2 papers in our library · 2017–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5002784136) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7727-526X) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61050362) · [**h-index 30**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5002784136) · [131 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5002784136) · [5,027 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5002784136&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-l-smith/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 1,513 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-l-smith/cited-by/) · [6 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4018](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/41/#star-4018) 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=Samuel+L+Smith) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Samuel+L+Smith) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Samuel+L+Smith) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Samuel+L+Smith) ## Affiliations [🏥**MedStar Franklin Square Medical Center** Baltimore · United States 2008–2017 · 19 papers](https://ror.org/01509dj67) · [🏥**Sinai Hospital** Baltimore · United States 1989–1997 · 13 papers](https://ror.org/052ra0j05) · [🎓**James Cook University** Townsville · Australia 2012–2022 · 10 papersEducation since 2014 · MBBS (Hons.), College of Medicine and DentistryEducation since 2017 · Master of Public Health & Tropical MedicineEmployment · Anatomy Tutor, Discipline of Anatomy & Pathology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/james-cook-university/) · [🏥**Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital** Brisbane · Australia 2020–2024 · 9 papersEmployment · Doctor](https://ror.org/05p52kj31) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2018–2023 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🎓**The University of Queensland** Brisbane · Australia 2021–2024 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-queensland/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2013–2019 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🏥**MedStar Harbor Hospital** Baltimore · United States 2015–2017 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/05mdb5j94) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2017–2021 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🎓**University of Birmingham** Birmingham · United Kingdom 2017–2019 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-birmingham/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 31 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 · 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/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[GloVe · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/glove/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-l-smith/year/2023/) ### 2010s [**2017** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-l-smith/year/2017/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Offline bilingual word vectors, orthogonal transformations and the inverted softmax](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/smith-2017-offline-bilingual-word-vectors-orthogonal/)** *(2017 · 435 citations)* The paper studies how to build bilingual word embeddings "offline": two monolingual vector spaces are trained separately and then aligned with a mapping learned from a translation dictionary, following Mikolov et al. 2. **[Resurrecting Recurrent Neural Networks for Long Sequences](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/orvieto-2023-resurrecting-recurrent-neural-networks-long/)** *(2023 · 118 citations)* Classic RNNs are cheap at inference on long inputs, but they train slowly and suffer from vanishing or exploding gradients. ## All works 8 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. **[Gemma: Open Models Based on Gemini Research and Technology ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08295) arXiv:2403.08295 · no summary yet**Gemma Team et al.*2024 · 1,313 citations* 2. **[Don't Decay the Learning Rate, Increase the Batch Size ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00489) arXiv:1711.00489 · no summary yet**Samuel L. Smith et al.*2017 · 680 citations* 3. [**Offline bilingual word vectors, orthogonal transformations and the inverted softmax arXiv:1702.03859**Samuel L. Smith, David H. P. Turban, Steven Hamblin, et al.*2017 · 435 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/smith-2017-offline-bilingual-word-vectors-orthogonal/) 4. [**Resurrecting Recurrent Neural Networks for Long Sequences arXiv:2303.06349**Antonio Orvieto, Samuel L Smith, Albert Gu, et al.*2023 · 118 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/orvieto-2023-resurrecting-recurrent-neural-networks-long/) 5. **[A Bayesian Perspective on Generalization and Stochastic Gradient Descent ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.06451) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Samuel L. Smith, Quoc Viet Le*2017 · 51 citations* 6. **[RecurrentGemma: Moving Past Transformers for Efficient Open Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07839) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Aleksandar Botev et al.*2024 · 22 citations* 7. **[The Effect of Network Width on Stochastic Gradient Descent and Generalization: an Empirical Study ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.03776) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Daniel Park et al.*2019 · 13 citations* 8. **[Stochastic natural gradient descent draws posterior samples in function space ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.09597) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Samuel L. Smith et al.*2018 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Albert Gu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/albert-gu/) - [Antonio Orvieto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/antonio-orvieto/) - [Caglar Gulcehre](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caglar-gulcehre/) - [Razvan Pascanu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/razvan-pascanu/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1,513 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [287 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/samuel-l-smith/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026