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# Shikhar Murty

Shikhar Murty has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2025, most of them on [Syntax & grammar formalisms](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/), [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/); often with [Aaron Courville](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-courville/), [Christopher D. Manning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-d-manning/), [Dzmitry Bahdanau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dzmitry-bahdanau/).

2 papers in our library · 2018–2025

[OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5054587391) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5054587391) · [31 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5054587391) · [415 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5054587391&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

[📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shikhar-murty/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 368 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shikhar-murty/cited-by/) · [17 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8411](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/85/#star-8411)

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=Shikhar+Murty) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Shikhar+Murty) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Shikhar+Murty) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Shikhar+Murty)

## Affiliations

[🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2019–2025 · 19 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🔬**MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory** Cambridge · United States 2022–2023 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mit-computer-science-and-artificial-intelligence-laboratory/) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Technology Indore** Indore · India 2018 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-indore/) · [🎓**Indian Institute of Technology Delhi** New Delhi · India 2017–2018 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/indian-institute-of-technology-delhi/)

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.

## 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/)

🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Syntax & grammar formalisms · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/syntax-grammar/)

## Works by year

### 2020s

[**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shikhar-murty/year/2025/)

### 2010s

[**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shikhar-murty/year/2018/)

## Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. **[Systematic Generalization: What Is Required and Can It Be Learned?](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bahdanau-2018-systematic-generalization-required-learned/)** *(2018 · 73 citations)* The authors test whether neural models of grounded language understanding can generalize systematically, that is, correctly understand new combinations of words they have already seen.
2. **[Mechanisms vs. Outcomes: Probing for Syntax Fails to Explain Performance on Targeted Syntactic Evaluations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agarwal-2025-mechanisms-vs-outcomes-probing-syntax/)** *(2025 · 4 citations)* The authors test whether the quality of syntactic probing can predict how a language model performs on targeted grammatical tests.

## All works

19 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. **[Probabilistic Embedding of Knowledge Graphs with Box Lattice Measures ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P18-1025/) Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Luke Vilnis et al.*2018 · 144 citations*
2. **[Hierarchical Losses and New Resources for Fine-grained Entity Typing and Linking ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P18-1010/) Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Shikhar Murty et al.*2018 · 120 citations*
3. [**Systematic Generalization: What Is Required and Can It Be Learned? arXiv:1811.12889**Dzmitry Bahdanau, Shikhar Murty, Michael Noukhovitch, et al.*2018 · 73 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bahdanau-2018-systematic-generalization-required-learned/)
4. **[Iterative Search for Weakly Supervised Semantic Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N19-1273/) 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**Pradeep Dasigi et al.*2019 · 71 citations*
5. **[CLOSURE: Assessing Systematic Generalization of CLEVR Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05783) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Dzmitry Bahdanau et al.*2019 · 67 citations*
6. **[ExpBERT: Representation Engineering with Natural Language Explanations ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.acl-main.190/) Proceedings of the 58th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics · no summary yet**Shikhar Murty, Pang Wei Koh, Percy Liang*2020 · 52 citations*
7. **[Characterizing Intrinsic Compositionality in Transformers with Tree Projections ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.01288) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Shikhar Murty et al.*2022 · 43 citations*
8. **[Grokking of Hierarchical Structure in Vanilla Transformers ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.acl-short.38/) Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 2: Short Papers) · no summary yet**Shikhar Murty et al.*2023 · 39 citations*
9. **[Fixing Model Bugs with Natural Language Patches ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.797/) Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Shikhar Murty et al.*2022 · 39 citations*
10. **[DReCa: A General Task Augmentation Strategy for Few-Shot Natural Language Inference ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2021.naacl-main.88/) Proceedings of the 2021 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies · no summary yet**Shikhar Murty, Tatsunori B. Hashimoto, Christopher Manning*2021 · 27 citations*
11. **[BAGEL: Bootstrapping Agents by Guiding Exploration with Language ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08140) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Shikhar Murty et al.*2024 · 19 citations*
12. **[NNetNav: Unsupervised Learning of Browser Agents Through Environment Interaction in the Wild ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02907) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Shikhar Murty et al.*2024 · 19 citations*
13. **[Pushdown Layers: Encoding Recursive Structure in Transformer Language Models ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2023.emnlp-main.195/) Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Shikhar Murty et al.*2023 · 16 citations*
14. **[MrT5: Dynamic Token Merging for Efficient Byte-level Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.20771) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Julie Kallini et al.*2024 · 9 citations*
15. **[On Measuring the Intrinsic Few-Shot Hardness of Datasets ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2022.emnlp-main.262/) Proceedings of the 2022 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yet**Xinran Zhao, Shikhar Murty, Christopher Manning*2022 · 9 citations*
16. **[Sneaking Syntax into Transformer Language Models with Tree Regularization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.naacl-long.407/) Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Ananjan Nandi, Christopher D Manning, Shikhar Murty*2025 · 5 citations*
17. **[Mechanisms vs. Outcomes: Probing for Syntax Fails to Explain Performance on Targeted Syntactic Evaluations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/agarwal-2025-mechanisms-vs-outcomes-probing-syntax/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Ananth Agarwal, Jasper Jian, Christopher D Manning, et al.*2025 · 4 citations*
18. **[WebDS: An End-to-End Benchmark for Web-based Data Science ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01222) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Hsu, Ethan et al.*2025 · 1 citation*
19. **[Thoughtbubbles: an Unsupervised Method for Parallel Thinking in Latent Space ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00219) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Houjun Liu et al.*2025*

## Co-authors here

5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

- [Aaron Courville](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-courville/)
- [Christopher D. Manning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-d-manning/)
- [Dzmitry Bahdanau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dzmitry-bahdanau/)
- [Harm de Vries](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/harm-de-vries/)
- [Thien Huu Nguyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thien-huu-nguyen/)

## Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

- [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) ×4: [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/)
- Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) ×4
- 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) ×2
- Proceedings of the 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 1: Long Papers)

## Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 368 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [39 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shikhar-murty/cited-by/).

Updated 2 November 2026