--- title: "Yuval Ran-Milo — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Yuval Ran-Milo: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026) — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuval-ran-milo/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuval-ran-milo/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Yuval Ran-Milo # Yuval Ran-Milo Yuval Ran-Milo 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/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 No OpenAlex profile matched yet. [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuval-ran-milo/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 1 time in our library · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11763](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/118/#star-11763) 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=Yuval+Ran-Milo) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Yuval+Ran-Milo) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Yuval+Ran-Milo) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Yuval+Ran-Milo) ## 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.[Interpretability · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/interpretability/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuval-ran-milo/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Attention Sinks Are Provably Necessary in Softmax Transformers: Evidence from Trigger-Conditional Tasks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/milo-2026-attention-sinks-are-provably-necessary/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Softmax Transformers often put almost all attention on one fixed, content-independent position, usually BOS. 2. **[A Mechanistic Account of Attention Sinks in GPT-2: One Circuit, Broader Implications for Mitigation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/milo-2026-mechanistic-account-attention-sinks-gpt/)** *(2026)* Transformers often send a large share of attention to the first token regardless of its content. This "attention sink" hurts context use, quantization, streaming and interpretability. The authors trace how the sink is produced inside the 124M-parameter GPT-2, which uses learned query biases and absolute positional… ## 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/) ×2: [ACL 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) ×2 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1 time (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). Updated 1 November 2026