--- title: "Tom Stafford · University of Sheffield — author profile and papers" description: "Tom Stafford, University of Sheffield: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 27 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-stafford/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-stafford/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tom Stafford # Tom Stafford Tom Stafford has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Andreas Vlachos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andreas-vlachos/), [Caiqi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caiqi-zhang/), [Nigel Collier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nigel-collier/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5082343866) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8089-9479) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q59706241) · [**h-index 27**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5082343866) · [212 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082343866) · [3,176 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5082343866&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-stafford/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 14 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-stafford/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10034](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/101/#star-10034) 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=Tom+Stafford) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tom+Stafford) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tom+Stafford) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tom+Stafford) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Sheffield** Sheffield · United Kingdom 1994–2026 · 136 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-sheffield/) · [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2022–2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) 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 6 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/) · [Physics and Astronomy · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/physics-and-astronomy/) · [Statistical and Nonlinear Physics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/physics-and-astronomy/statistical-and-nonlinear-physics/) 🧭 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 [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-stafford/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-stafford/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Conformity in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2025-conformity-large-language-models/)** *(2025 · 18 citations)* LLMs increasingly serve as conversational partners and as members of multi-agent ensembles. A tendency to side with a majority, even a wrong one, can therefore undermine their usefulness. The authors adapt the classic Asch conformity paradigm to LLMs. In a scripted dialogue, the model answers a question last, after… 2. **[Demystifying Multi-Agent Debate: The Role of Confidence and Diversity](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2026-demystifying-multi-agent-debate-role/)** *(2026 · 6 citations)* Multi-agent debate (MAD) is a popular test-time scaling technique for LLMs, but its standard form often does no better than a plain majority vote while costing more. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Andreas Vlachos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andreas-vlachos/) ×2 - [Caiqi Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caiqi-zhang/) ×2 - [Nigel Collier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nigel-collier/) ×2 - [Xiaochen Zhu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xiaochen-zhu/) ×2 ## 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/): [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 14 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [6 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-stafford/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026