--- title: "Vishal Maini — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Vishal Maini, University College London: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2018–2019), h-index 3 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vishal-maini/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vishal-maini/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Vishal Maini # Vishal Maini Vishal Maini has 2 papers in our library, in 2018–2019, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Sentiment & emotion](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/); often with [Dani Yogatama](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dani-yogatama/), [Huan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huan-zhang/), [Jack W. Rae](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jack-w-rae/). 2 papers in our library · 2018–2019 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5003314770) · [**h-index 3**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5003314770) · [3 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5003314770) · [260 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5003314770&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vishal-maini/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 191 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vishal-maini/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5306](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/54/#star-5306) 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=Vishal+Maini) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Vishal+Maini) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Vishal+Maini) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Vishal+Maini) ## Affiliations [🎓**University College London** London · United Kingdom 2019–2020 · 2 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-college-london/) 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/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Safety Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/safety-research/) · [Social Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/social-sciences/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Sentiment & emotion · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/sentiment-emotion/) ## Works by year ### 2010s [**2019** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vishal-maini/year/2019/) · [**2018** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vishal-maini/year/2018/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Scalable agent alignment via reward modeling: a research direction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/leike-2018-scalable-agent-alignment-reward-modeling/)** *(2018 · 227 citations)* Reinforcement learning thrives when a task has an explicit score, as in Atari or Go. Most practical jobs, such as handling email, writing software or managing a business, offer no built-in reward, and the user's goal exists only implicitly. The authors call this the agent alignment problem: making an agent act as its… 2. **[Reducing Sentiment Bias in Language Models via Counterfactual Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/huang-2019-reducing-sentiment-bias-language-models/)** *(2019 · 104 citations)* The paper examines whether text produced by large language models carries sentiment bias, where the tone of a continuation shifts depending on which country, occupation or person name appears in the prompt. ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dani Yogatama](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dani-yogatama/) - [Huan Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huan-zhang/) - [Jack W. Rae](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jack-w-rae/) - [Jan Leike](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jan-leike/) - [Johannes Welbl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/johannes-welbl/) - [Po-Sen Huang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/po-sen-huang/) - [Pushmeet Kohli](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pushmeet-kohli/) - [Robert Stanforth](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/robert-stanforth/) - [Shane Legg](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shane-legg/) - [Tom Everitt](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tom-everitt/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 191 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [69 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vishal-maini/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026