--- title: "Valentin Hofmann — author profile and papers" description: "Valentin Hofmann, University of Washington: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 11 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valentin-hofmann/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valentin-hofmann/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Valentin Hofmann # Valentin Hofmann 2 papers on this site · 2023–2024 current affiliation [University of Washington](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/), Seattle, United States; [Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/), Seattle, United States; [Munich Center for Machine Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/munich-center-for-machine-learning/), Munich; [Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen/), Munich, Germany Valentin Hofmann has 2 papers on this site, in 2023–2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Morphology](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/); often with [Anjali Kantharuban](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anjali-kantharuban/), [Dirk Hovy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dirk-hovy/), [Hannah Rose Kirk](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannah-rose-kirk/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5014923355) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6603-3428) · [**h-index 11**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5014923355) · [65 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5014923355) · [593 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5014923355&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valentin-hofmann/#papers) · [363 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valentin-hofmann/cited-by/) · 8 more works in our library 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=Valentin+Hofmann) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Valentin+Hofmann) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Valentin+Hofmann) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Valentin+Hofmann) ## Affiliations - [Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ludwig-maximilians-universitat-munchen/) · Munich, Germany —current · 2020–2026 on 22 papers - [Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/allen-institute-for-artificial-intelligence/) · Seattle, United States —current · 2023–2026 on 19 papers - [University of Washington](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-washington/) · Seattle, United States —current · 2024–2026 on 6 papers - [Munich Center for Machine Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/munich-center-for-machine-learning/) · Munich —current · 2022–2026 on 3 papers - [University of Oxford](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-oxford/) · Oxford, United Kingdom —2020–2024 on 21 papers - [Carnegie Mellon University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · Pittsburgh, United States —2024 on 2 papers - [University of California, Berkeley](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) · Berkeley, United States —2024 on 2 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Topics [Language models & pretraining 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Morphology 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/morphology/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rottger-2024-political-compass-or-spinning-arrow/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lex-2023-weissweiler-chatgpt-wugs-morphology/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Political Compass or Spinning Arrow? Towards More Meaningful Evaluations for Values and Opinions in Large Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rottger-2024-political-compass-or-spinning-arrow/)** *(2024 · 134 citations)* Many studies measure the values and opinions of large language models (LLMs) by giving them multiple-choice questionnaires. 2. **[Counting the Bugs in ChatGPT's Wugs: A Multilingual Investigation into the Morphological Capabilities of a Large Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lex-2023-weissweiler-chatgpt-wugs-morphology/)** *(2023 · 47 citations)* The paper applies a wug test, with invented words, to ChatGPT in English, German, Tamil and Turkish. The English set has 50 two- to five-letter irregular verbs, each changed by one or two letters so that the nonce word is not in UniMorph 4.0, and each given a past tense by 28 annotators. The model is given zero, one… ## Also in our library 8 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Anjali Kantharuban](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/anjali-kantharuban/) - [Dirk Hovy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dirk-hovy/) - [Hannah Rose Kirk](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hannah-rose-kirk/) - [Hinrich Schuetze](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hinrich-schuetze/) - [Leonie Weissweiler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leonie-weissweiler/) - [Paul Röttger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/paul-rottger/) - [Valentina Pyatkin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valentina-pyatkin/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 363 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [21 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/valentin-hofmann/cited-by/).