🧑‍🔬 Gerald Penn

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓University of TorontoToronto · Canada2001–2026 · 144 papersEmployment · Professorcurrent🔬Vector InstituteToronto · Canada2021–2024 · 5 papers🎓University of TübingenTübingen · Germany1997–2000 · 4 papers🏛️Public Health Agency of CanadaOttawa · Canada2021–2023 · 2 papers🎓University of ChicagoChicago · United States1986–1991 · 1 paperEducation 1986–1991 · S.B., Department of Mathematics🎓Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh · United States1991–2000Education 1991–1993 · M.S., Department of PhilosophyEducation 1997–2000 · Ph.D., School of Computer Science

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 4 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.

📅 Works by year

2020s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. Tiny Budgets, Big Gains: Parameter Placement Strategy in Parameter Super-Efficient Fine-Tuning (2025 · 8 citations)
   Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods such as LoRA lower the cost of adapting large models. Yet models now reach hundreds of billions of parameters, so even rank-1 LoRA can be too heavy for mobile hardware or labs with little compute. The authors ask how a very small, fixed budget of trainable parameters should be…
2. Predicting Gaze Location without Camera or Eye-Tracker (2026)
   Eye-trackers and webcams can estimate where a reader is looking on a web page, but most users lack such devices or decline to be filmed for privacy reasons.

All works

6 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. Topological Field Parsing of German ↗Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP · no summary yetJackie Chi Kit Cheung, Gerald Penn2009 · 21 citations
2. Tiny Budgets, Big Gains: Parameter Placement Strategy in Parameter Super-Efficient Fine-TuningConference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)Jinman Zhao, Xueyan Zhang, Jiaru Li, et al.2025 · 8 citations
3. Indexing Spoken Documents with Hierarchical Semantic Structures: Semantic Tree-to-string Alignment Models ↗Proceedings of 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing · no summary yetXiaodan Zhu, Colin Cherry, Gerald Penn2011 · 2 citations
4. Predicting Gaze Location without Camera or Eye-Trackerfo the International Workshop on Eye-Tracking Resources and Evaluation for Human-Aligned NLPSaman Rezapoor, Sajad Shirali-Shahreza, Gerald Penn2026
5. FAB: The French Absolute Beginner Corpus for Pronunciation Training ↗Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference · no summary yetSean Robertson, Cosmin Munteanu, Gerald Penn2020
6. The Quantitative Study of Writing Systems ↗Actes de la 17e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Conférences invitées · no summary yetPenn, Gerald2010

🤝 Co-authors here

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

• Erxue Min
• Jiaru Li
• Jinman Zhao
• Xueyan Zhang
• Yulan Hu

Venues

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

• Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP): EMNLP 2025
• fo the International Workshop on Eye-Tracking Resources and Evaluation for Human-Aligned NLP: fo the International Workshop on Eye-Tracking Resources and Evaluation for Human-Aligned NLP 2026
• Actes de la 17e conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Conférences invitées
• Proceedings of 5th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing
• Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP
• Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 15 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 4 citing papers with a page here →.

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