--- title: "Thomas McGrath — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Thomas McGrath: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023) — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-mcgrath/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-mcgrath/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Thomas McGrath # Thomas McGrath Thomas McGrath has 2 papers in our library, in 2023, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Arthur Conmy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arthur-conmy/), [Janos Kramar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/janos-kramar/), [Matthew Rahtz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-rahtz/). 2 papers in our library · 2023 No OpenAlex profile matched yet. [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-mcgrath/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 69 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-mcgrath/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9039](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/91/#star-9039) 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=Thomas+McGrath) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Thomas+McGrath) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Thomas+McGrath) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Thomas+McGrath) ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 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/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-mcgrath/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The Hydra Effect: Emergent Self-repair in Language Model Computations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mcgrath-2023-hydra-effect-emergent-self-repair/)** *(2023 · 49 citations)* The paper asks how far ablation can be trusted for working out which parts of a large language model drive its predictions. 2. **[Copy Suppression: Comprehensively Understanding an Attention Head](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mcdougall-2023-copy-suppression-comprehensively-understanding-attention/)** *(2023 · 25 citations)* The paper addresses a long-standing difficulty in mechanistic interpretability. Explanations of model components usually hold only on narrow tasks, and "Negative Heads" that push against the right answer have puzzled earlier studies. The authors fully reverse-engineer one such head, L10H7 in GPT-2 Small, across its… ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Arthur Conmy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arthur-conmy/) - [Janos Kramar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/janos-kramar/) - [Matthew Rahtz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/matthew-rahtz/) - [Neel Nanda](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/neel-nanda/) - [Shane Legg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shane-legg/) - [Vladimir Mikulik](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vladimir-mikulik/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 69 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [19 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-mcgrath/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026