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Lav R. Varshney

Lav R. Varshney has 2 papers in our library, in 2019–2025, most of them on Language models & pretraining; often with Bryan McCann, Caiming Xiong, Dilek Hakkani-Tur.

2 papers in our library · 2019–2025

OpenAlex · ORCID · Wikidata · h-index 34 · 418 works · 7,574 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 620 times in our library · 7 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #2295

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 Affiliations

🎓University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUrbana · United States2014–2026 · 240 papersEmployment 2014–2025current🎓Stony Brook UniversityStony Brook · United States2025–2026 · 26 papersEmployment since 2025 · Della Pietra Infinity Professor, AI Innovation Institutecurrent🎓State University of New YorkAlbany · United States2026 · 5 paperscurrent🔬IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research CenterYorktown Heights · United States2011–2014 · 35 papers🎓Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge · United States2006–2016 · 33 papersEducation🏢IBMArmonk · United States2011–2013 · 20 papers🏢SalesforceSan Francisco · United States2019–2025 · 8 papers🔬National Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsSofia · Bulgaria2018–2021 · 6 papers🔬National Center for Supercomputing ApplicationsUrbana · United States2018–2021 · 6 papers🎓National University of SingaporeSingapore · Singapore2019–2020 · 3 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 12 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 7The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology · 1 workPsychology · 1 work

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

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

 Works by year

2020s

20251 paper

2010s

20191 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. CTRL: A Conditional Transformer Language Model for Controllable Generation (2019 · 1,291 citations)
    Large pretrained language models produce fluent text, but users have little influence over its style, topic or purpose beyond writing a prompt.
  2. Spark: A System for Scientifically Creative Idea Generation (2025 · 5 citations)
    Research idea generation is the first step in efforts to automate science, and LLMs have recently shown they can propose novel ideas.

All works

9 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. CTRL: A Conditional Transformer Language Model for Controllable GenerationarXiv:1909.05858Nitish Shirish Keskar, Bryan McCann, Lav R. Varshney, et al.2019 · 1,291 citations
  2. BERTology Meets Biology: Interpreting Attention in Protein Language Models ↗bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · no summary yetJesse Vig et al.2020 · 318 citations
  3. Mind Your Inflections! Improving NLP for Non-Standard Englishes with Base-Inflection Encoding ↗Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) · no summary yetSamson Tan et al.2020 · 57 citations
  4. COVID-19 Growth Rate Decreases with Social Capital ↗medRxiv · no summary yetLav R. Varshney, Richard Socher2020 · 34 citations
  5. Limits of Detecting Text Generated by Large-Scale Language Models ↗Information Theory and Applications Workshop (ITA) · no summary yetLav R. Varshney, Nitish Shirish Keskar, Richard Socher2020 · 25 citations
  6. Pretrained AI Models: Performativity, Mobility, and Change ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetLav R. Varshney, Nitish Shirish Keskar, Richard Socher2019 · 25 citations
  7. Evaluating State-of-the-Art Classification Models Against Bayes Optimality ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetRyan Theisen et al.2021 · 6 citations
  8. Spark: A System for Scientifically Creative Idea GenerationarXiv:2504.20090Aishik Sanyal, Samuel Schapiro, Sumuk Shashidhar, et al.2025 · 5 citations
  9. Explaining Creative Artifacts ↗arXiv (Cornell University) · no summary yetLav R. Varshney, Nazneen Fatema Rajani, Richard Socher2020 · 1 citation

 Co-authors here

5 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 620 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 131 citing papers with a page here →.

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