--- title: "Sumanth Dathathri — author profile and papers" description: "Sumanth Dathathri, Google DeepMind (United Kingdom): 2 papers on Elamur Research (2019–2021), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sumanth-dathathri/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sumanth-dathathri/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Sumanth Dathathri # Sumanth Dathathri 2 papers on this site · 2019–2021 current affiliation [Google DeepMind (United Kingdom)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/), London, United Kingdom Sumanth Dathathri has 2 papers on this site, in 2019–2021, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Text generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/); often with [Amelia Glaese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amelia-glaese/), [Andrea Madotto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrea-madotto/), [Jason Yosinski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-yosinski/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5049998479) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0007-4937-9903) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5049998479) · [35 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5049998479) · [1 104 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5049998479&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sumanth-dathathri/#papers) · [749 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sumanth-dathathri/cited-by/) 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=Sumanth+Dathathri) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Sumanth+Dathathri) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Sumanth+Dathathri) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Sumanth+Dathathri) ## Affiliations - [Google DeepMind (United Kingdom)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · London, United Kingdom —current · 2024–2026 on 3 papers - [California Institute of Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/california-institute-of-technology/) · Pasadena, United States —2016–2021 on 15 papers - [Hong Kong University of Science and Technology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/hong-kong-university-of-science-and-technology/) · Hong Kong, Hong Kong —2019–2020 on 2 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Language models & pretraining 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Text generation 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/text-generation/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2021** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/welbl-2021-challenges-detoxifying-language-models/) ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dathathri-2019-plug-play-language-models-simple/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Plug and Play Language Models: A Simple Approach to Controlled Text Generation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dathathri-2019-plug-play-language-models-simple/)** *(2019 · 562 citations)* Large pretrained Transformer language models write fluent text, but steering what they produce, such as the topic or sentiment, usually means changing the architecture or retraining on labelled data. 2. **[Challenges in Detoxifying Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/welbl-2021-challenges-detoxifying-language-models/)** *(2021 · 206 citations)* This DeepMind study asks how well current detoxification methods for English language models (LMs) actually work, and what they cost. ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Amelia Glaese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amelia-glaese/) - [Andrea Madotto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrea-madotto/) - [Jason Yosinski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jason-yosinski/) - [Johannes Welbl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/johannes-welbl/) - [John Mellor](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-mellor/) - [Jonathan Uesato](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-uesato/) - [Lisa Anne Hendricks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lisa-anne-hendricks/) - [Po-Sen Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/po-sen-huang/) - [Pushmeet Kohli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pushmeet-kohli/) - [Rosanne Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rosanne-liu/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 749 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [92 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sumanth-dathathri/cited-by/).