--- title: "Zhivar Sourati — author profile and papers · Reasoning" description: "Zhivar Sourati, University of Southern California: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2026), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhivar-sourati/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhivar-sourati/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Zhivar Sourati # Zhivar Sourati Zhivar Sourati has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Dan Roth](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-roth/), [Filip Ilievski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/filip-ilievski/), [Marianne Menglin Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marianne-menglin-liu/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5030315755) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2129-6165) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5030315755) · [22 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5030315755) · [114 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5030315755&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhivar-sourati/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 13 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhivar-sourati/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10259](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/103/#star-10259) 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=Zhivar+Sourati) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Zhivar+Sourati) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Zhivar+Sourati) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Zhivar+Sourati) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Southern California** Los Angeles · United States 2023–2026 · 13 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-southern-california/) · [🎓**University of Tehran** Tehran · Iran 2021–2023 · 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-tehran/) 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).[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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhivar-sourati/year/2026/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhivar-sourati/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ARN: Analogical Reasoning on Narratives](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sourati-2024-arn-analogical-reasoning-narratives/)** *(2024 · 17 citations)* Most NLP research on analogy tests word-pair proportions (A : B :: C : D). Cognitive psychology, by contrast, studies analogy mainly through stories and separates shallow overlap from deeper relational structure. The authors ask whether current LLMs can detect such structure-level ("system") analogies between… 2. **[LAD-RAG: Layout-aware Dynamic RAG for Visually-Rich Document Understanding](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sourati-2026-lad-rag-layout-aware-dynamic/)** *(2026 · 4 citations)* Retrieval-augmented generation over long, visually rich documents (slides, reports, papers) often fails on questions whose answers are spread across several pages. ## Co-authors here 8 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dan Roth](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dan-roth/) - [Filip Ilievski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/filip-ilievski/) - [Marianne Menglin Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/marianne-menglin-liu/) - [Morteza Dehghani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/morteza-dehghani/) - [Sujith Ravi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sujith-ravi/) - [Tao Sheng](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tao-sheng/) - [Yifan Jiang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yifan-jiang/) - [Zheng Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zheng-wang/) ## 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/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2024/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 13 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zhivar-sourati/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026