--- title: "Tsendsuren Munkhdalai — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Tsendsuren Munkhdalai, Google DeepMind: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2026), h-index 23 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tsendsuren-munkhdalai/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tsendsuren-munkhdalai/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Tsendsuren Munkhdalai # Tsendsuren Munkhdalai Tsendsuren Munkhdalai has 3 papers in our library, in 2020–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Speech & spoken language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Adam Trischler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-trischler/), [Alessandro Sordoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-sordoni/), [Andrew Mattarella-Micke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-mattarella-micke/). 3 papers in our library · 2020–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5062473985) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8783-4993) · [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q88474859) · [**h-index 23**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5062473985) · [70 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5062473985) · [2,285 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5062473985&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tsendsuren-munkhdalai/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 269 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tsendsuren-munkhdalai/cited-by/) · [4 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5622](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/57/#star-5622) 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=Tsendsuren+Munkhdalai) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Tsendsuren+Munkhdalai) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Tsendsuren+Munkhdalai) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Tsendsuren+Munkhdalai) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google DeepMind** London · United Kingdom 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google-deepmind/) · [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2021–2025 · 16 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) · [🏢**Microsoft Research Montréal** Montreal · Canada 2018–2020 · 9 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft-research-montreal/) · [🎓**Chungbuk National University** Cheongju-si · South Korea 2011–2015 · 9 papers](https://ror.org/02wnxgj78) · [🏢**Microsoft** Redmond · United States 2018–2021 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/microsoft/) · [🎓**University of Massachusetts Amherst** Amherst Center · United States 2016–2020 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-amherst/) · [🏢**Intuit** Mountain View · United States 2020 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/intuit/) · [🎓**University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School** Worcester · United States 2018 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-massachusetts-chan-medical-school/) 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).[Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Signal Processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Speech & spoken language · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tsendsuren-munkhdalai/year/2026/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tsendsuren-munkhdalai/year/2023/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tsendsuren-munkhdalai/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Exploring and Predicting Transferability across NLP Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vu-2020-exploring-predicting-transferability-across-nlp/)** *(2020 · 198 citations)* Fine-tuning BERT on an intermediate task before the target task can help, but it was unclear when this works and which source task to pick. 2. **[Improving Speech Recognition for African American English With Audio Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/garg-2023-improving-speech-recognition-african-american/)** *(2023 · 6 citations)* Commercial speech recognizers make noticeably more errors on African American English (AAE) than on Mainstream American English (MAE). 3. **[Do LLMs Really Need 10+ Thoughts for “Find the Time 1000 Days Later”? Towards Structural Understanding of LLM Overthinking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-do-llms-really-need-10/)** *(2026 · 4 citations)* Reasoning-oriented LLMs often produce very long chains of thought even for trivial questions, such as simple arithmetic or date calculations. ## All works 7 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Exploring and Predicting Transferability across NLP Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/vu-2020-exploring-predicting-transferability-across-nlp/) [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/)**Tu Vu, Tong Wang, Tsendsuren Munkhdalai, et al.*2020 · 198 citations* 2. **[Self-Supervised Meta-Learning for Few-Shot Natural Language Classification Tasks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2020.emnlp-main.38/) Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · no summary yet**Trapit Bansal et al.*2020 · 120 citations* 3. **[Sentence Simplification with Memory-Augmented Neural Networks ↗](https://aclanthology.org/N18-2013/) Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers) · no summary yet**Tu Vu et al.*2018 · 87 citations* 4. **[Leave No Context Behind: Efficient Infinite Context Transformers with Infini-attention ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07143) arXiv:2404.07143 · no summary yet**Tsendsuren Munkhdalai, Manaal Faruqui, Siddharth Gopal*2024 · 80 citations* 5. **[What Matters for Model Merging at Scale? ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03617) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Yadav, Prateek et al.*2024 · 15 citations* 6. **[Improving Speech Recognition for African American English With Audio Classification](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/garg-2023-improving-speech-recognition-african-american/) [IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-international-conference-on-acoustics-speech-and-signal-processing/)**Shefali Garg, Zhouyuan Huo, Khe Chai Sim, et al.*2023 · 6 citations* 7. **[Do LLMs Really Need 10+ Thoughts for “Find the Time 1000 Days Later”? Towards Structural Understanding of LLM Overthinking](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhang-2026-do-llms-really-need-10/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Xinliang Frederick Zhang, Anhad Mohananey, Alexandra Chronopoulou, et al.*2026 · 4 citations* ## Co-authors here 11 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Adam Trischler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-trischler/) - [Alessandro Sordoni](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alessandro-sordoni/) - [Andrew Mattarella-Micke](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andrew-mattarella-micke/) - [Anhad Mohananey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anhad-mohananey/) - [Lu Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lu-wang/) - [Mohit Iyyer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohit-iyyer/) - [Pinelopi Papalampidi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pinelopi-papalampidi/) - [Shyam Upadhyay](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shyam-upadhyay/) - [Tong Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tong-wang/) - [Tu Vu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tu-vu/) - [Xinliang Frederick Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/xinliang-frederick-zhang/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/) ×2: [EMNLP 2020](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2020/) - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-international-conference-on-acoustics-speech-and-signal-processing/): [IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/ieee-international-conference-on-acoustics-speech-and-signal-processing/2023/) - Proceedings of the 2018 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Volume 2 (Short Papers) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 269 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [42 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tsendsuren-munkhdalai/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026