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# Canadian Institute for Advanced Research

Research institute [Toronto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/toronto/), Canadain the agglomeration of [Toronto](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/agglomerations/toronto/) · CIFAR; ICRA

- [Website](https://cifar.ca)
- [ROR](https://ror.org/01sdtdd95)
- [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/I109736498)

[**11** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/canadian-institute-for-advanced-research/#works) · [**29** people with a page](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/canadian-institute-for-advanced-research/authors/) · [**15,436** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/canadian-institute-for-advanced-research/#works) · [**2,906** citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/canadian-institute-for-advanced-research/#works)

## People (29)

Authors with a page here who worked or studied at Canadian Institute for Advanced Research: first those whose cited work was done most here; beside each, their citations.

### Core (3)

Confirmed by their records, or by their bylines here with a fair part of their work.

- [Yoshua Bengio](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yoshua-bengio/) — 2013–2026 on 84 papers · 23 papers here · 99,938 citations
- [Richard Zemel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-zemel/) — current · 2014–2015 on 6 papers · 3 papers here · 12,326 citations
- [Laurent Charlin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/laurent-charlin/) — current · 2020–2026 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 805 citations

**Also published with this affiliation (26)**

Matched by the bylines of their papers, not confirmed: few papers there, or a small part of their work.

- [Kyunghyun Cho](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kyunghyun-cho/) — current · 2015–2026 on 22 papers · 33 papers here · 77,787 citations
- [Ruslan Salakhutdinov](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruslan-salakhutdinov/) — 2014–2015 on 4 papers · 13 papers here · 28,906 citations
- [Aaron Courville](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aaron-courville/) — current · 2012–2026 on 33 papers · 7 papers here · 15,544 citations
- [Siva Reddy](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/siva-reddy/) — current · 2020–2026 on 34 papers · 9 papers here · 7,887 citations
- [Lili Mou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lili-mou/) — current · 2022–2026 on 20 papers · 3 papers here · 2,705 citations
- [Wei-Yin Ko](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wei-yin-ko/) — current · 2024–2025 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 863 citations
- [Clementine Fourrier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/clementine-fourrier/) — 2024–2025 on 2 papers · 2 papers here · 562 citations
- [Freda Shi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/freda-shi/) — current · 2024–2026 on 8 papers · 2 papers here · 2,100 citations
- [David Ifeoluwa Adelani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/david-ifeoluwa-adelani/) — current · 2024–2026 on 14 papers · 10 papers here · 2,351 citations
- [Dzmitry Bahdanau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dzmitry-bahdanau/) — 2021–2023 on 8 papers · 6 papers here · 56,164 citations
- [Geoffrey Hinton](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/geoffrey-hinton/) — 1989–2005 on 7 papers · 5 papers here · 25,530 citations
- [Max Welling](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/max-welling/) — 2015–2023 on 27 papers · 2 papers here · 23,800 citations
- [Dale Schuurmans](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dale-schuurmans/) — current · 2023–2026 on 3 papers · 4 papers here · 14,959 citations
- [Ryan Kiros](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ryan-kiros/) — 2014 on 2 papers · 3 papers here · 12,415 citations
- [Pradeep Dasigi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pradeep-dasigi/) — 2023–2024 on 2 papers · 9 papers here · 5,341 citations
- [Joelle Pineau](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joelle-pineau/) — 2021–2022 on 3 papers · 8 papers here · 3,637 citations
- [Adam Trischler](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/adam-trischler/) — 2018–2020 on 2 papers · 5 papers here · 2,304 citations
- [Ke Li](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ke-li/) — current · 2026 on 1 paper · 2 papers here · 2,288 citations
- [Hila Gonen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hila-gonen/) — current · 2026 on 2 papers · 4 papers here · 1,825 citations
- [Yikang Shen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yikang-shen/) — 2018–2020 on 3 papers · 4 papers here · 1,242 citations
- [Jackie Chi Kit Cheung](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jackie-chi-kit-cheung/) — current · 2019–2026 on 16 papers · 10 papers here · 1,220 citations
- [Aishwarya Agrawal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/aishwarya-agrawal/) — current · 2022–2026 on 4 papers · 2 papers here · 799 citations
- [Jeff Clune](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jeff-clune/) — current · 2024–2026 on 3 papers · 2 papers here · 788 citations
- [Pascal Vincent](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pascal-vincent/) — 2015–2024 on 8 papers · 2 papers here · 492 citations
- [Doina Precup](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/doina-precup/) — current · 2020–2026 on 7 papers · 2 papers here · 303 citations

The first 25; all on the full list below.

[See all 29 people →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/canadian-institute-for-advanced-research/authors/)

## Works in our library (11)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

- [Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xu-2015-show-attend-tell-neural-image/) — Kelvin Xu, Jimmy Ba, Ryan Kiros, et al. · 2015 · 7,483 citations
- [Aligning Books and Movies: Towards Story-like Visual Explanations by Watching Movies and Reading Books](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/zhu-2015-aligning-books-movies-towards-story/) — Yukun Zhu, Ryan Kiros, Richard Zemel, et al. · 2015 · 3,030 citations
- [Attention-Based Models for Speech Recognition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/chorowski-2015-attention-based-models-speech-recognition/) — Jan Chorowski, Dzmitry Bahdanau, Dmitriy Serdyuk, et al. · 2015 · 1,776 citations
- [AdapterFusion: Non-Destructive Task Composition for Transfer Learning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pfeiffer-2020-adapterfusion-non-destructive-task-composition/) — Jonas Pfeiffer, Aishwarya Kamath, Andreas Rücklé, et al. · 2020 · 948 citations
- [AdapterHub: A Framework for Adapting Transformers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pfeiffer-2020-adapterhub-framework-adapting-transformers/) — Jonas Pfeiffer, Andreas Rücklé, Clifton Poth, et al. · 2020 · 747 citations
- [Towards an Automatic Turing Test: Learning to Evaluate Dialogue Responses](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lowe-2017-towards-automatic-turing-test-learning/) — Ryan Lowe, Michael Noseworthy, Iulian V. Serban, et al. · 2017 · 486 citations
- [Representation Learning: A Review and New Perspectives](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bengio-2012-representation-learning-review-new-perspectives/) — Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville, Pascal Vincent · 2012 · 316 citations
- [On Extractive and Abstractive Neural Document Summarization with Transformer Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/pilault-2020-extractive-abstractive-neural-document-summarization/) — Jonathan Pilault, Raymond Li, Sandeep Subramanian, et al. · 2020 · 259 citations
- [An Empirical Survey of the Effectiveness of Debiasing Techniques for Pre-trained Language Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/meade-2022-empirical-survey-effectiveness-debiasing-techniques/) — Nicholas Meade, Elinor Poole-Dayan, Siva Reddy · 2022 · 211 citations
- [Global MMLU: Understanding and Addressing Cultural and Linguistic Biases in Multilingual Evaluation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/singh-2025-global-mmlu-understanding-addressing-cultural/) — Shivalika Singh, Angelika Romanou, Clémentine Fourrier, et al. · 2025 · 179 citations
- [Unsupervised Classification of English Words Based on Phonological Information: Discovery of Germanic and Latinate Clusters](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/morita-2025-unsupervised-classification-english-words-based/) — Takashi Morita, Timothy J. O'Donnell · 2025 · 1 citation

## Topics

What its works here are about; the number is its works on the topic.

[Language models & pretraining 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Summarization 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/summarization/) · [Dialogue systems 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/dialogue-systems/) · [Speech & spoken language 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Bias, fairness & safety 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/bias-fairness-safety/) · [Vision & language 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/)

Fields: [Natural language processing](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/nlp/) (5) · [Linguistics & languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/linguistics/) (1)

## Collaborates with

Institutions on the bylines of the same works here; the number is the works they share.

[Google 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/google/) [Carnegie Mellon University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/carnegie-mellon-university/) [New York University 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/new-york-university/) [Université de Montréal 5](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-de-montreal/) [IBM 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/ibm/) [Massachusetts Institute of Technology 3](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) [University of Toronto 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-toronto/) [Constructor University 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/constructor-university/) [National University of Singapore 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/national-university-of-singapore/) [Hugging Face 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/hugging-face/) [Technische Universität Darmstadt 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technische-universitat-darmstadt/) [Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute 2](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mila-quebec-artificial-intelligence-institute/)

Works and people from the bylines of the papers (OpenAlex): a person listed here worked or studied at Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; employment or education is named only where the person's ORCID record or Wikidata says so. Institution data from ROR and OpenAlex.