--- title: "Sean O'Brien — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Sean O'Brien, University of California San Diego: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 16 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sean-o-brien/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sean-o-brien/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sean O'Brien # Sean O'Brien Sean O'Brien has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Asli Celikyilmaz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/asli-celikyilmaz/), [Jane Dwivedi-Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jane-dwivedi-yu/), [Luke Zettlemoyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luke-zettlemoyer/). 3 papers in our library · 2023–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5075691637) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0265-5401) · [**h-index 16**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5075691637) · [102 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5075691637) · [974 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5075691637&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sean-o-brien/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 118 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sean-o-brien/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4958](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/50/#star-4958) 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=Sean+O%27Brien) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sean+O%27Brien) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sean+O%27Brien) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sean+O%27Brien) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of California San Diego** San Diego · United States 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-san-diego/) · [🎓**University of Notre Dame** Notre Dame · United States 2003–2014 · 21 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-notre-dame/) · [🎓**New Mexico State University** Las Cruces · United States 1985–1999 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-mexico-state-university/) · [🔬**DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory** Adelphi · United States 1998–2008 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/devcom-army-research-laboratory/) · [🏛️**United States Army** Arlington · United States 2004–2008 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/00afsp483) · [🎓**Australian National University** Canberra · Australia 2018–2020 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/australian-national-university/) · [🔬**Australian Centre for Robotic Vision** Brisbane · Australia 2018 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/02zv9xv82) · [🔬**Sandia National Laboratories** Albuquerque · United States 2016–2018 · 3 papers](https://ror.org/01apwpt12) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2021–2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 2015 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Concepts, shelves and topics Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them. 📚 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 · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper Sean O'Brien's papers of 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/le-2025-adaptive-originality-filtering-rejection-based/) · [**2023** 2 papers Sean O'Brien's papers of 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sean-o-brien/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Contrastive Decoding Improves Reasoning in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/o-brien-2023-contrastive-decoding-improves-reasoning-large/)** *(2023 · 67 citations)* LLMs are usually decoded differently depending on the task: open-ended writing relies on truncated sampling, while reasoning tasks typically use greedy decoding. 2. **[Shepherd: A Critic for Language Model Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2023-shepherd-critic-language-model-generation/)** *(2023 · 59 citations)* Shepherd tackles the problem of automatically critiquing text produced by large language models, which still often generate false or incoherent answers. 3. **[Adaptive Originality Filtering: Rejection Based Prompting and RiddleScore for Culturally Grounded Multilingual Riddle Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/le-2025-adaptive-originality-filtering-rejection-based/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* When LLMs are asked to write riddles in several languages, they tend to reuse familiar templates or repeat riddles they memorized during pretraining. ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Asli Celikyilmaz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/asli-celikyilmaz/) - [Jane Dwivedi-Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jane-dwivedi-yu/) - [Luke Zettlemoyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luke-zettlemoyer/) - [Maryam Fazel-Zarandi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maryam-fazel-zarandi/) - [Mike Lewis](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mike-lewis/) - [Olga Golovneva](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/olga-golovneva/) - [Ping Yu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ping-yu/) - [Ramakanth Pasunuru](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ramakanth-pasunuru/) - [Tianlu Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tianlu-wang/) - [Xiaoqing Ellen Tan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaoqing-ellen-tan/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 118 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sean-o-brien/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026