--- title: "Vlad Firoiu — author profile and papers · Dialogue systems" description: "Vlad Firoiu: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2020–2022), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vlad-firoiu/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vlad-firoiu/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Vlad Firoiu # Vlad Firoiu Vlad Firoiu has 2 papers in our library, in 2020–2022, most of them on [Dialogue systems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/), [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Amelia Glaese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amelia-glaese/), [Ankit Anand](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ankit-anand/), [Doina Precup](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/doina-precup/). 2 papers in our library · 2020–2022 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5046302720) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5046302720) · [11 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5046302720) · [1,625 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5046302720&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vlad-firoiu/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2,622 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vlad-firoiu/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5159](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/52/#star-5159) 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=Vlad+Firoiu) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Vlad+Firoiu) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Vlad+Firoiu) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Vlad+Firoiu) ## Affiliations [🏢**Google** Mountain View · United States 2018–2021 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) 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 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/) · [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/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Dialogue systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vlad-firoiu/year/2022/) · [**2020** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vlad-firoiu/year/2020/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Improving alignment of dialogue agents via targeted human judgements](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/glaese-2022-improving-alignment-dialogue-agents-targeted/)** *(2022 · 362 citations)* DeepMind presents Sparrow, a dialogue agent for information-seeking conversations. It is designed to be more helpful, correct and harmless than a prompted language model. The base model is Dialogue Prompted Chinchilla 70B (DPC), which the authors refine with reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF). They add… 2. **[Learning to Prove from Synthetic Theorems](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aygun-2020-learning-prove-synthetic-theorems/)** *(2020 · 12 citations)* Deep learning for automated theorem proving is held back by the scarcity of human-written theorems and proofs. ## 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. **[IMPALA: Scalable Distributed Deep-RL with Importance Weighted Actor-Learner Architectures ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.01561) arXiv:1802.01561 · no summary yet**Lasse Espeholt et al.*2018 · 710 citations* 2. [**Improving alignment of dialogue agents via targeted human judgements arXiv:2209.14375**Amelia Glaese, Nat McAleese, Maja Trębacz, et al.*2022 · 362 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/glaese-2022-improving-alignment-dialogue-agents-targeted/) 3. [**Learning to Prove from Synthetic Theorems arXiv:2006.11259**Eser Aygün, Zafarali Ahmed, Ankit Anand, et al.*2020 · 12 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aygun-2020-learning-prove-synthetic-theorems/) ## Co-authors here 12 of 13 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Amelia Glaese](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amelia-glaese/) - [Ankit Anand](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ankit-anand/) - [Doina Precup](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/doina-precup/) - [Eser Aygün](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/eser-aygun/) - [John Aslanides](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/john-aslanides/) - [Jonathan Uesato](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jonathan-uesato/) - [Laura Weidinger](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laura-weidinger/) - [Laurent Orseau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laurent-orseau/) - [Lucy Campbell-Gillingham](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucy-campbell-gillingham/) - [Maja Trębacz](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maja-trebacz/) - [Maribeth Rauh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maribeth-rauh/) - [Martin Chadwick](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martin-chadwick/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2,622 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [718 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vlad-firoiu/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026