--- title: "Timo Kaufmann — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Timo Kaufmann: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timo-kaufmann/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timo-kaufmann/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Timo Kaufmann # Timo Kaufmann Timo Kaufmann has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Eyke Hullermeier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eyke-hullermeier/), [Frauke Kreuter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frauke-kreuter/), [Goran Glavaš](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/goran-glavas/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5102866977) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5193-8574) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5102866977) · [22 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102866977) · [44 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5102866977&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timo-kaufmann/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 63 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timo-kaufmann/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #7916](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/80/#star-7916) 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=Timo+Kaufmann) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Timo+Kaufmann) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Timo+Kaufmann) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Timo+Kaufmann) ## Affiliations [🎓**Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München** Munich · Germany 2023–2025 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen/) · [🏥**LMU Klinikum** Munich · Germany 2023–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/hospitals/lmu-klinikum/) · [🎓**Munich Center for Machine Learning** Munich · Germany 2024–2025 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/munich-center-for-machine-learning/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Management Science and Operations Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/management-science-and-operations-research/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timo-kaufmann/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timo-kaufmann/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Survey of Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kaufmann-2023-survey-reinforcement-learning-human-feedback/)** *(2023 · 92 citations)* Hand-crafting reward functions for reinforcement learning is hard. Success is often vague, sparse signals slow learning, and shaped rewards invite reward hacking. This survey by Kaufmann, Weng, Bengs and Hüllermeier, published in TMLR, reviews reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) as an alternative. In… 2. **[Problem Solving Through Human–AI Preference-based Cooperation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dutta-2025-problem-solving-through-human-ai/)** *(2025 · 9 citations)* Generative AI systems, including LLMs, vision-language models and code models, still struggle with complex expert-domain tasks. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Eyke Hullermeier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eyke-hullermeier/) ×2 - [Frauke Kreuter](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/frauke-kreuter/) - [Goran Glavaš](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/goran-glavas/) - [Hinrich Schütze](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hinrich-schutze/) - [Iryna Gurevych](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/iryna-gurevych/) - [Ivan Habernal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivan-habernal/) - [Kristian Kersting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kristian-kersting/) - [Subhabrata Dutta](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/subhabrata-dutta/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/): [Computational Linguistics 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/cl/2025/) - [Transactions on Machine Learning Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/transactions-on-machine-learning-research/): [Transactions on Machine Learning Research 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/transactions-on-machine-learning-research/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 63 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [24 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timo-kaufmann/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026