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# Tim Althoff — all works

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1. **[Large-scale physical activity data reveal worldwide activity inequality ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/nature23018) Nature · no summary yet**Tim Althoff et al.*2017 · 1,004 citations*
2. **[A Computational Approach to Understanding Empathy Expressed in Text-Based Mental Health Support](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sharma-2020-computational-approach-understanding-empathy-expressed/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Ashish Sharma, Adam Miner, David Atkins, et al.*2020 · 412 citations*
3. **[Large-scale Analysis of Counseling Conversations: An Application of Natural Language Processing to Mental Health](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/althoff-2016-large-scale-analysis-counseling-conversations/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Tim Althoff, Kevin Clark, Jure Leskovec*2016 · 395 citations*
4. **[Best practices for analyzing large-scale health data from wearables and smartphone apps ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-019-0121-1) npj Digital Medicine · no summary yet**Jennifer L. Hicks et al.*2019 · 181 citations*
5. [**A Roadmap to Pluralistic Alignment arXiv:2402.05070**Taylor Sorensen, Jared Moore, Jillian Fisher, et al.*2024 · 143 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sorensen-2024-roadmap-pluralistic-alignment/)
6. **[Online Actions with Offline Impact ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3018661.3018672) ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM) · no summary yet**Tim Althoff, Pranav Jindal, Jure Leskovec*2017 · 143 citations*
7. **[How to Ask for a Favor: A Case Study on the Success of Altruistic Requests ↗](https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v8i1.14547) Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media · no summary yet**Tim Althoff, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Dan Jurafsky*2014 · 139 citations*
8. **[Branch-Train-Merge: Embarrassingly Parallel Training of Expert Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.03306) arXiv:2208.03306 · no summary yet**Margaret Li et al.*2022 · 114 citations*
9. **[Donor Retention in Online Crowdfunding Communities ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2736277.2741120) International World Wide Web Conference (WWW) · no summary yet**Tim Althoff, Jure Leskovec*2015 · 104 citations*
10. **[Large-scale diet tracking data reveal disparate associations between food environment and diet ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27522-y) Nature Communications · no summary yet**Tim Althoff et al.*2022 · 79 citations*
11. **[Sparselet Models for Efficient Multiclass Object Detection ↗](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33709-3_57) Lecture notes in computer science · no summary yet**Hyun Oh Song et al.*2012 · 78 citations*
12. **[How Gamification Affects Physical Activity ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3041021.3054172) no summary yet**Ali Shameli et al.*2017 · 74 citations*
13. **[Daily, weekly, seasonal and menstrual cycles in women’s mood, behaviour and vital signs ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-01046-9) Nature Human Behaviour · no summary yet**Emma Pierson et al.*2021 · 68 citations*
14. **[Countrywide natural experiment links built environment to physical activity ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09321-3) Nature · no summary yet**Tim Althoff et al.*2025 · 53 citations*
15. **[Goal-setting And Achievement In Activity Tracking Apps: A Case Study Of MyFitnessPal ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3308558.3313432) arXiv:1904.02813 · no summary yet**Mitchell Gordon, Tim Althoff, Jure Leskovec*2019 · 48 citations*
16. **[Modeling Interdependent and Periodic Real-World Action Sequences ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3178876.3186161) arXiv:1802.09148 · no summary yet**Takeshi Kurashima, Tim Althoff, Jure Leskovec*2018 · 43 citations*
17. **[Modeling Individual Cyclic Variation in Human Behavior ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3178876.3186052) arXiv:1712.05748 · no summary yet**Emma Pierson, Tim Althoff, Jure Leskovec*2018 · 41 citations*
18. **[Scaling Expert Language Models with Unsupervised Domain Discovery ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14177) arXiv:2303.14177 · no summary yet**Suchin Gururangan et al.*2023 · 38 citations*
19. **[I'll Be Back ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/3178876.3186062) arXiv:1802.08972 · no summary yet**Zhiyuan Jerry Lin, Tim Althoff, Jure Leskovec*2018 · 33 citations*
20. **[Detection bank ↗](https://doi.org/10.1145/2393347.2396384) ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM) · no summary yet**Tim Althoff, Hyun Oh Song, Trevor Jackson Darrell*2012 · 27 citations*
21. **[How Gamification Affects Physical Activity: Large-scale Analysis of Walking Challenges in a Mobile Application ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.07437) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Ali Shameli et al.*2017 · 22 citations*
22. **[Online Actions with Offline Impact: How Online Social Networks Influence Online and Offline User Behavior ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03053) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Tim Althoff, Pranav Jindal, Jure Leskovec*2016 · 18 citations*
23. **[Donor Retention in Online Crowdfunding Communities: A Case Study of DonorsChoose.org ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.02729) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Tim Althoff, Jure Leskovec*2015 · 15 citations*
24. **[Detection Bank: An Object Detection Based Video Representation for Multimedia Event Recognition ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1405.7102) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Tim Althoff, Hyun Oh Song, Trevor Jackson Darrell*2014 · 5 citations*
25. **[Inferring Events from Time Series using Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/tan-2026-inferring-events-time-series-language/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Mingtian Tan, Mike A Merrill, Zachary Gottesman, et al.*2026 · 1 citation*
26. **[Self-Improving VLM Judges Without Human Annotations ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.05145) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Inna Wanyin Lin et al.*2025*
27. **[Countrywide natural experiment reveals impact of built environment on physical activity ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.04557) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Tim Althoff et al.*2024*
28. **[How to ask for a favor: A case study on the success of altruistic requests. arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.3282 ↗](https://openalex.org/W7097252085) no summary yet**Tim Althoff, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Dan Jurafsky*2014*
29. **[Spatial Pyramid Match (SPM) ↗](https://openalex.org/W7101160045) no summary yet**Tim Althoff, Hyun Oh Song, Trevor Jackson Darrell*2013*
30. **[permission. Don’t Look Back: Post-hoc Category Detection via Sparse Reconstruction ↗](https://openalex.org/W7097343638) no summary yet**Mario Fritz et al.*2013*
31. **[Don't Look Back: Post-hoc Category Detection via Sparse Reconstruction ↗](https://openalex.org/W7065589734) UC Berkeley · no summary yet**Hyun Oh Song et al.