--- title: "William Rudman — author profile and papers in our library" description: "William Rudman, The University of Texas at Austin: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-rudman/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-rudman/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / William Rudman # William Rudman William Rudman has 2 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Carsten Eickhoff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carsten-eickhoff/), [Michal Golovanevsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michal-golovanevsky/), [Ritambhara Singh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ritambhara-singh/). 2 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5153427926) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5153427926) · [9 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5153427926) · [1 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5153427926&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-rudman/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 9 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-rudman/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9974](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/100/#star-9974) 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=William+Rudman) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=William+Rudman) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=William+Rudman) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=William+Rudman) ## Affiliations [🎓**The University of Texas at Austin** Austin · United States 2026 · 9 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/the-university-of-texas-at-austin/) 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [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.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Vision & language · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-rudman/year/2026/) · [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-rudman/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Pixels Versus Priors: Controlling Knowledge Priors in Vision-Language Models through Visual Counterfacts](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/golovanevsky-2025-pixels-versus-priors-controlling-knowledge/)** *(2025 · 8 citations)* Multimodal LLMs answer visual questions well, but it is unclear whether they rely on knowledge memorized during pretraining or on the image they are shown. 2. **[Mechanisms of Prompt-Induced Hallucination in Vision–Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/rudman-2026-mechanisms-prompt-induced-hallucination-vision/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Vision–language models sometimes trust a user's wording more than what the image shows. This paper studies that failure, called prompt-induced hallucination (PIH), using object counting. Images from CountBench are first counted correctly by the model. The same images are then paired with a request to describe more… ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Carsten Eickhoff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carsten-eickhoff/) ×2 - [Michal Golovanevsky](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michal-golovanevsky/) ×2 - [Ritambhara Singh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ritambhara-singh/) ×2 - [Dana Arad](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dana-arad/) - [Kyle Mahowald](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyle-mahowald/) - [Yonatan Belinkov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yonatan-belinkov/) ## 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 on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2025/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 9 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-rudman/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026