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Hootan Nakhost

Hootan Nakhost has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, most of them on Language models & pretraining, Reasoning; often with Chen-Yu Lee, Alexander Ratner, Cheng-Yu Hsieh.

2 papers in our library · 2023–2025

OpenAlex · h-index 13 · 44 works · 789 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 393 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #3106

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 Affiliations

🏢GoogleMountain View · United States2022–2025 · 7 paperscurrent🎓Arizona State UniversityTempe · United States2025 · 1 papercurrent🎓University of AlbertaEdmonton · Canada2009–2021 · 12 papers🏢GoogleHaifa · Israel2021 · 2 papers🎓University of TehranTehran · Iran2006–2020 · 2 papers🎓Sharif University of TechnologyTehran · Iran2007 · 2 papers

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 5The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 1 workComputer Science · 2 worksArts and Humanities · 1 workMathematics · 1 work

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

 Works by year

2020s

20251 paper20231 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Distilling Step-by-Step! Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training Data and Smaller Model Sizes (2023 · 690 citations)
    Small task-specific models are cheap to serve, but they usually need many human labels (finetuning) or large pools of unlabeled data (distillation from an LLM) to approach LLM quality.
  2. PlanGEN: A Multi-Agent Framework for Generating Planning and Reasoning Trajectories for Complex Problem Solving (2025 · 16 citations)
    LLM-based agents and test-time search methods often fail on "natural planning" tasks, such as scheduling meetings or planning trips described in plain language.

 Co-authors here

12 of 15 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 393 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 69 citing papers with a page here →.

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