--- title: "Zhangir Azerbayev — author profile and papers" description: "Zhangir Azerbayev, Princeton University: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2023), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhangir-azerbayev/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhangir-azerbayev/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zhangir Azerbayev # Zhangir Azerbayev 3 papers on this site · 2023 current affiliation [Princeton University](https://ror.org/00hx57361), Princeton, United States; [Yale University](https://ror.org/03v76x132), New Haven, United States Zhangir Azerbayev has 3 papers on this site, in 2023, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Hailey Schoelkopf](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hailey-schoelkopf/), [Keiran Paster](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/keiran-paster/), [Marco Dos Santos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-dos-santos/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5029518700) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5029518700) · [8 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029518700) · [41 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5029518700&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [3 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhangir-azerbayev/#papers) · [507 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhangir-azerbayev/cited-by/) 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=Zhangir+Azerbayev) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhangir+Azerbayev) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhangir+Azerbayev) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhangir+Azerbayev) ## Affiliations - [Yale University](https://ror.org/03v76x132) · New Haven, United States —current · 2021–2023 on 5 papers - [Princeton University](https://ror.org/00hx57361) · Princeton, United States —current · 2023 on 2 papers - [Pennsylvania State University](https://ror.org/04p491231) · State College, United States —2021 on 2 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Topics [Reasoning 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) · [Language models & pretraining 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Llemma: An Open Language Model For Mathematics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/azerbayev-2023-llemma-open-language-model-mathematics/)** *(2023 · 275 citations)* General-purpose LLMs are weak at mathematics, and the strongest math-specialised model, Minerva, was never released, so other researchers could not build on it. 2. **[ProofNet: Autoformalizing and Formally Proving Undergraduate-Level Mathematics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/azerbayev-2023-proofnet-autoformalizing-formally-proving-undergraduate/)** *(2023 · 141 citations)* Autoformalization means converting informal mathematics into statements a proof assistant can check. Progress has been limited by the scarcity of paired informal and formal data. Existing prover benchmarks also lean on competition problems that require only a small set of elementary facts. To address this, the… 3. **[OpenWebMath: An Open Dataset of High-Quality Mathematical Web Text](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/paster-2023-openwebmath-open-dataset-high-quality/)** *(2023 · 124 citations)* Large language models get noticeably better at quantitative reasoning when trained on math-heavy text. Minerva showed this, but its web corpus was never released. Existing open web datasets also mangle mathematical notation during HTML-to-text conversion, so open researchers had no comparable resource. The authors… ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Hailey Schoelkopf](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hailey-schoelkopf/) ×2 - [Keiran Paster](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/keiran-paster/) ×2 - [Marco Dos Santos](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marco-dos-santos/) ×2 - [Albert Q. Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/albert-q-jiang/) - [Dragomir Radev](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dragomir-radev/) - [Jia Deng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jia-deng/) - [Jimmy Ba](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jimmy-ba/) - [Sean Welleck](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sean-welleck/) - [Stella Biderman](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stella-biderman/) - [Stephen McAleer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/stephen-mcaleer/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 507 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [41 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhangir-azerbayev/cited-by/).