--- title: "Srini Iyer · University of Washington — author profile and papers" description: "Srini Iyer, University of Washington: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2023), h-index 22 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srini-iyer/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srini-iyer/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Srini Iyer # Srini Iyer Srini Iyer has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Code & programming languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/); often with [Ansong Ni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ansong-ni/), [Dragomir Radev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dragomir-radev/), [Hila Gonen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hila-gonen/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2023 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5088004913) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6186-2603) · [**h-index 22**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5088004913) · [55 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5088004913) · [3,005 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5088004913&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srini-iyer/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2,273 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srini-iyer/cited-by/) · [19 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5251](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/53/#star-5251) 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=Srini+Iyer) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Srini+Iyer) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Srini+Iyer) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Srini+Iyer) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Washington** Seattle · United States 2016–2026 · 17 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · [🎓**Stanford University** Stanford · United States 2012–2015 · 12 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stanford-university/) · [🏢**Meta** Menlo Park · United States 2020–2025 · 10 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta/) · [🏢**Meta** London · United Kingdom 2020–2025 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/meta-united-kingdom/) · [🎓**University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill** Chapel Hill · United States 2021–2023 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-north-carolina-at-chapel-hill/) · [🎓**Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago** Chicago · United States 2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/toyota-technological-institute-at-chicago/) · [🎓**Yale University** New Haven · United States 2021–2022 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/yale-university/) · [🏥**Stanford Medicine** Stanford · United States 2013 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/hospitals/stanford-medicine/) · [🎓**Manipal Academy of Higher Education** Manipal · India 2022Employment since 2022 · Associate professor, Commerce](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/manipal-academy-of-higher-education/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Code & programming languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/code-and-programming/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srini-iyer/year/2023/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srini-iyer/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Demystifying Prompts in Language Models via Perplexity Estimation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gonen-2022-demystifying-prompts-language-models-perplexity/)** *(2022 · 213 citations)* Prompts that look equally reasonable to a human can produce very different results from a large language model. 2. **[LEVER: Learning to Verify Language-to-Code Generation with Execution](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ni-2023-lever-learning-verify-language-code/)** *(2023 · 126 citations)* Code-oriented large language models can turn natural-language requests into programs, but their single best guess is often wrong. ## All works 21 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. **[LIMA: Less Is More for Alignment ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11206) arXiv:2305.11206 · no summary yet**Chunting Zhou et al.*2023 · 1,022 citations* 2. **[Summarizing Source Code using a Neural Attention Model ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P16-1195/) Proceedings of the 54th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Srinivasan Iyer et al.*2016 · 800 citations* 3. **[Learning a Neural Semantic Parser from User Feedback ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P17-1089/) Proceedings of the 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Srinivasan Iyer et al.*2017 · 472 citations* 4. [**Demystifying Prompts in Language Models via Perplexity Estimation arXiv:2212.04037**Hila Gonen, Srini Iyer, Terra Blevins, et al.*2022 · 213 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gonen-2022-demystifying-prompts-language-models-perplexity/) 5. **[Efficient One-Pass End-to-End Entity Linking for Questions ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.522/) Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · no summary yet**Belinda Z. Li et al.*2020 · 172 citations* 6. **[Learning to Map Context-Dependent Sentences to Executable Formal Queries ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N18-1203/) Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers) · no summary yet**Alane Suhr, Srinivasan Iyer, Yoav Artzi*2018 · 139 citations* 7. [**LEVER: Learning to Verify Language-to-Code Generation with Execution arXiv:2302.08468**Ansong Ni, Srini Iyer, Dragomir Radev, et al.*2023 · 126 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ni-2023-lever-learning-verify-language-code/) 8. **[Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2025.acl-long.453/) Proceedings of the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Artidoro Pagnoni et al.*2025 · 73 citations* 9. **[DeLighT: Deep and Light-weight Transformer ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.00623) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Sachin Mehta et al.*2020 · 64 citations* 10. **[Do Language Models Have Beliefs? Methods for Detecting, Updating, and Visualizing Model Beliefs ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.13654) arXiv:2111.13654 · no summary yet**Peter Hase et al.*2021 · 60 citations* 11. **[Learning Programmatic Idioms for Scalable Semantic Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/D19-1545/) Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) · no summary yet**Srinivasan Iyer, Alvin Cheung, Luke Zettlemoyer*2019 · 48 citations* 12. **[Instruction-tuned Language Models are Better Knowledge Learners ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.acl-long.296/) Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Zhengbao Jiang et al.*2024 · 47 citations* 13. **[Mixture-of-Transformers: A Sparse and Scalable Architecture for Multi-Modal Foundation Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04996) arXiv:2411.04996 · Transactions on Machine Learning Research (2025), ISSN: 2835-8856 · no summary yet**Weixin Liang et al.*2024 · 25 citations* 14. **[Neural Semantic Parsing ↗](https://aclanthology.org/P18-5006/) Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts · no summary yet**Matt Gardner et al.*2018 · 23 citations* 15. **[MoMa: Efficient Early-Fusion Pre-training with Mixture of Modality-Aware Experts ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.21770) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Xi Lin et al.*2024 · 21 citations* 16. **[ACUEval: Fine-grained Hallucination Evaluation and Correction for Abstractive Summarization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2024.findings-acl.597/) Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 · no summary yet**David Wan et al.*2024 · 20 citations* 17. **[Scaling Test-Time Compute for Agentic Coding ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16529) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Joongwon Kim et al.*2026 · 3 citations* 18. **[Fast Byte Latent Transformer ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.08044) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Julie Kallini et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 19. **[Compute Optimal Tokenization ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.01188) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Tomasz Limisiewicz et al.*2026 · 1 citation* 20. **[Latent Speech-Text Transformer ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06195) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Yen-Ju Lu et al.*2025 · 1 citation* 21. **[Breaking the Token Ceiling: Distilling Smaller, Stronger Byte Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.12303) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Kalyani Marathe et al.*2026* ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ansong Ni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ansong-ni/) - [Dragomir Radev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dragomir-radev/) - [Hila Gonen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hila-gonen/) - [Luke Zettlemoyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/luke-zettlemoyer/) - [Noah A. Smith](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/noah-a-smith/) - [Sida Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sida-wang/) - [Terra Blevins](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/terra-blevins/) - [Ves Stoyanov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ves-stoyanov/) - [Wen-tau Yih](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wen-tau-yih/) - [Xi Victoria Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xi-victoria-lin/) ## 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/) ×5 - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) ×3 - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/) - Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 - Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 1 (Long Papers) - Proceedings of the 2019 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and the 9th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (EMNLP-IJCNLP) - Proceedings of the 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Tutorial Abstracts ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2,273 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [477 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/srini-iyer/cited-by/). 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