--- title: "Zachary Ankner — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Zachary Ankner: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-ankner/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-ankner/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zachary Ankner # Zachary Ankner Zachary Ankner has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024; often with [Aniruddha Nrusimha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aniruddha-nrusimha/), [Prithviraj Ammanabrolu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prithviraj-ammanabrolu/), [Tian Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tian-jin/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5024750873) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8307-3456) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5024750873) · [12 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5024750873) · [183 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5024750873&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-ankner/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 93 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-ankner/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8580](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/86/#star-8580) 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=Zachary+Ankner) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zachary+Ankner) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zachary+Ankner) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zachary+Ankner) ## Affiliations [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2022–2024 · 7 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed. ## 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).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Hardware and Architecture · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/hardware-and-architecture/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-ankner/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-ankner/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Critique-out-Loud Reward Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ankner-2024-critique-out-loud-reward-models/)** *(2024 · 52 citations)* Standard reward models for RLHF score a prompt–response pair with a single classifier pass and ignore the generative abilities of the underlying LLM, so any judgment of quality stays implicit. 2. **[Striped Attention: Faster Ring Attention for Causal Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brandon-2023-striped-attention-faster-ring-attention/)** *(2023 · 41 citations)* Ring Attention (Liu et al., 2023) makes very long contexts trainable by splitting queries, keys and values along the sequence across accelerators arranged in a ring. ## 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. [**Critique-out-Loud Reward Models arXiv:2408.11791**Zachary Ankner, Mansheej Paul, Brandon Cui, et al.*2024 · 52 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/ankner-2024-critique-out-loud-reward-models/) 2. [**Striped Attention: Faster Ring Attention for Causal Transformers arXiv:2311.09431**William Brandon, Aniruddha Nrusimha, Kevin Qian, et al.*2023 · 41 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/brandon-2023-striped-attention-faster-ring-attention/) 3. **[Unsupervised Elicitation of Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10139) arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yet**Jiaxin Wen et al.*2025 · 2 citations* ## Co-authors here 4 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Aniruddha Nrusimha](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aniruddha-nrusimha/) - [Prithviraj Ammanabrolu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/prithviraj-ammanabrolu/) - [Tian Jin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tian-jin/) - [William Brandon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/william-brandon/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 93 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [28 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zachary-ankner/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026