--- title: "Sebastian Farquhar — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Sebastian Farquhar, University of Oxford: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023), h-index 14 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-farquhar/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-farquhar/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sebastian Farquhar # Sebastian Farquhar Sebastian Farquhar has 2 papers in our library, in 2023, most of them on [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Lorenz Kuhn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lorenz-kuhn/), [Yarin Gal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yarin-gal/). 2 papers in our library · 2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5051690066) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9185-6415) · [**h-index 14**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5051690066) · [48 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051690066) · [2,377 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5051690066&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-farquhar/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 506 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-farquhar/cited-by/) · [3 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4090](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/41/#star-4090) 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=Sebastian+Farquhar) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sebastian+Farquhar) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sebastian+Farquhar) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sebastian+Farquhar) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Oxford** Oxford · United Kingdom 2017–2026 · 21 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oxford/) · [🤝**Science Oxford** Oxford · United Kingdom 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://ror.org/04j8yhy50) · [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2022–2024 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) 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 8 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Engineering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/engineering/safety-risk-reliability-and-quality/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Text generation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-farquhar/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Semantic Uncertainty: Linguistic Invariances for Uncertainty Estimation in Natural Language Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kuhn-2023-semantic-uncertainty-linguistic-invariances-uncertainty/)** *(2023 · 433 citations)* The paper addresses how far the answers of large language models can be trusted in free-form text generation, particularly in question-answering systems. 2. **[Model evaluation for extreme risks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shevlane-2023-model-evaluation-extreme-risks/)** *(2023 · 104 citations)* This position paper, from authors at Google DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, GovAI and academic institutions, argues that general-purpose AI models may develop harmful abilities their creators never targeted. ## All works 5 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. **[The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence: Forecasting, Prevention, and Mitigation ↗](https://doi.org/10.17863/cam.22520) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Miles Brundage et al.*2018 · 866 citations* 2. [**Semantic Uncertainty: Linguistic Invariances for Uncertainty Estimation in Natural Language Generation arXiv:2302.09664**Lorenz Kuhn, Yarin Gal, Sebastian Farquhar*2023 · 433 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kuhn-2023-semantic-uncertainty-linguistic-invariances-uncertainty/) 3. **[Towards Robust Evaluations of Continual Learning ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09733) arXiv:1805.09733 · no summary yet**Sebastian Farquhar, Yarin Gal*2018 · 185 citations* 4. [**Model evaluation for extreme risks arXiv:2305.15324**Toby Shevlane, Sebastian Farquhar, Ben Garfinkel, et al.*2023 · 104 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/shevlane-2023-model-evaluation-extreme-risks/) 5. **[Evaluating Frontier Models for Dangerous Capabilities ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13793) arXiv:2403.13793 · no summary yet**Mary Phuong et al.*2024 · 36 citations* ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Lorenz Kuhn](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lorenz-kuhn/) - [Yarin Gal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yarin-gal/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 506 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [119 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-farquhar/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026