--- title: "Virginia Smith — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Virginia Smith, Carnegie Mellon University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 21 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/virginia-smith/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/virginia-smith/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Virginia Smith # Virginia Smith Virginia Smith has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Interpretability](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/); often with [Aashiq Muhamed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aashiq-muhamed/), [Mona Diab](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mona-diab/), [Kun Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kun-zhang/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5112800069) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6404-2395) · [**h-index 21**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5112800069) · [76 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5112800069) · [3,231 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5112800069&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/virginia-smith/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 15 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/virginia-smith/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11013](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/111/#star-11013) 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=Virginia+Smith) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Virginia+Smith) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Virginia+Smith) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Virginia+Smith) ## Affiliations [🎓**Carnegie Mellon University** Pittsburgh · United States 2017–2026 · 39 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) · [🎓**University of California, Berkeley** Berkeley · United States 2013–2017 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-california-berkeley/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## 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/) · [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/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/virginia-smith/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[RefusalBench: Generative Evaluation of Selective Refusal in Grounded Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/muhamed-2026-refusalbench-generative-evaluation-selective-refusal/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Retrieval-augmented systems need to recognize when the supplied documents cannot support a trustworthy answer and decline to respond. 2. **[Mechanistic Interpretability Should Prioritize Feature Consistency in Sparse Autoencoders](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/song-2026-mechanistic-interpretability-should-prioritize-feature/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are a popular way to break LLM activations into sparse, human-readable features. ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[Everybody Prune Now: Structured Pruning of LLMs with only Forward Passes ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.05406) arXiv:2402.05406 · no summary yet**Steven Kolawole et al.*2024 · 18 citations* 2. **[RefusalBench: Generative Evaluation of Selective Refusal in Grounded Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/muhamed-2026-refusalbench-generative-evaluation-selective-refusal/) [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/)**Aashiq Muhamed, Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro, Markus Dreyer, et al.*2026 · 2 citations* 3. **[Mechanistic Interpretability Should Prioritize Feature Consistency in Sparse Autoencoders](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/song-2026-mechanistic-interpretability-should-prioritize-feature/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Xiangchen Song, Aashiq Muhamed, Yujia Zheng, et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aashiq Muhamed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aashiq-muhamed/) ×2 - [Mona Diab](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mona-diab/) ×2 - [Kun Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kun-zhang/) - [Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leonardo-f-r-ribeiro/) ## 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 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/): [EACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/eacl/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 15 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/virginia-smith/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026