--- title: "Vinay Samuel — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Vinay Samuel, University of Maryland, College Park: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2025), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vinay-samuel/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vinay-samuel/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Vinay Samuel # Vinay Samuel Vinay Samuel has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Question answering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/), [Low-resource languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/); often with [Aman Chadha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aman-chadha/), [Arijit Ghosh Chowdhury](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arijit-ghosh-chowdhury/), [Henry Peng Zou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/henry-peng-zou/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5072439636) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5072439636) · [10 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5072439636) · [37 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5072439636&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vinay-samuel/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 30 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vinay-samuel/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8403](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/85/#star-8403) 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=Vinay+Samuel) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Vinay+Samuel) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Vinay+Samuel) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Vinay+Samuel) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Maryland, College Park** College Park · United States 2024–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-maryland-college-park/) · [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2024–2025 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Low-resource languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/low-resource-languages/) · [Question answering · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/question-answering/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vinay-samuel/year/2025/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vinay-samuel/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Towards Data Contamination Detection for Modern Large Language Models: Limitations, Inconsistencies, and Oracle Challenges](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/samuel-2025-data-contamination-detection-modern-large/)** *(2025 · 16 citations)* Data contamination detectors for LLMs have mostly been validated on older, widely circulated benchmarks and early models such as GPT-J. 2. **[Can LLMs Augment Low-Resource Reading Comprehension Datasets? Opportunities and Challenges](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/samuel-2023-llms-augment-low-resource-reading/)** *(2023 · 16 citations)* Extractive question answering models perform poorly in specialised domains with few labelled examples, and standard augmentation relies on unlabeled passages such as Wikipedia, which these domains often lack. ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aman Chadha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aman-chadha/) - [Arijit Ghosh Chowdhury](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/arijit-ghosh-chowdhury/) - [Henry Peng Zou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/henry-peng-zou/) - [Yue Zhou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yue-zhou/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/): [COLING 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/coling/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 30 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [9 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vinay-samuel/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026