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Akbir Khan

Akbir Khan has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2024, most of them on Implicature, Language models & pretraining; often with Edward Grefenstette, Laura Ruis, Tim Rocktaschel.

2 papers in our library · 2022–2024

OpenAlex · h-index 6 · 23 works · 110 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 251 times in our library · 3 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6612

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 Affiliations

🎓University College LondonLondon · United Kingdom2023–2025 · 7 paperscurrent🏢AnthropicSan Francisco · United States2024 · 3 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksSafety Research · 1 workSocial Sciences · 1 work

🧭 Topics 2Research subjects and languages the work is about.Language models & pretraining · 1 workImplicature · 1 work

💡 Concepts 1Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.Implicature · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20241 paper20221 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Debating with More Persuasive LLMs Leads to More Truthful Answers (2024 · 101 citations)
    The paper asks whether weaker overseers can reliably check stronger AI systems, a problem that grows as models outpace human expertise and ground-truth labels become unavailable.
  2. The Goldilocks of Pragmatic Understanding: Fine-Tuning Strategy Matters for Implicature Resolution by LLMs (2022 · 86 citations)
    The authors test whether large language models (LLMs) can understand conversational implicature, that is, an indirect answer.

All works

5 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. Debating with More Persuasive LLMs Leads to More Truthful AnswersarXiv:2402.06782Akbir Khan, John Hughes, Dan Valentine, et al.2024 · 101 citations
  2. The Goldilocks of Pragmatic Understanding: Fine-Tuning Strategy Matters for Implicature Resolution by LLMsConference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)Laura Ruis, Akbir Khan, Stella Biderman, et al.2022 · 86 citations
  3. Alignment faking in large language models ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetRyan Greenblatt et al.2024 · 82 citations
  4. Language Models Learn to Mislead Humans via RLHF ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetJiaxin Wen et al.2024 · 33 citations
  5. Auditing language models for hidden objectives ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetMarks, Samuel et al.2025 · 19 citations

 Co-authors here

9 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 251 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 68 citing papers with a page here →.

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