🧑‍🔬 Michael Witbrock

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓University of AucklandAuckland · New Zealand2019–2026 · 73 papersEmployment since 2019 · Professor, Computer Sciencecurrent🏢CycorpAustin · United States2003–2017 · 21 papersEmployment🎓Carnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh · United States1986–2018 · 13 papersEducation 1986–1995 · Ph.D., Computer Science🏢IBMArmonk · United States2017–2019 · 10 papers🔬IBM Research - Thomas J. Watson Research CenterYorktown Heights · United States2016–2017 · 2 papers

🏛️IBM ResearchYorktown Heights · United States2016–2019Employment 2016–2019 · Distinguished Research Staff Member, AI

🏛️IBM ResearchUnited States2016–2019Employment 2016–2019🎓University of OtagoDunedin · New Zealand1980–1984Education 1980–1984 · BSc (Hons 1), Psychology

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 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. Large Language Models Are Not Strong Abstract Reasoners (2023 · 61 citations)
   The paper asks whether today's LLMs can do genuine abstract reasoning, which means inferring a general rule from a handful of examples and applying it to new cases.
2. Disentangling Reasoning Logic to Resolve Explicit Knowledge Conflicts (2026)
   When retrieved documents give opposing answers to the same question, an LLM has to decide which source to trust.
3. Evo-PI: Aligning Medical Reasoning via Evolving Principle-Guided Supervision (2026)
   Multimodal LLMs trained for reasoning usually get static supervision. Fixed prompts, rules or scalar rewards check answer format and correctness but do little to shape how the model reasons, which leads to plateaus, fragile generalization and reward hacking. Evo-PI addresses this by turning reasoning principles into…

All works

7 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. Word Mover's Embedding: From Word2Vec to Document Embedding ↗Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing · no summary yetLingfei Wu et al.2018 · 121 citations
2. Large Language Models Are Not Strong Abstract ReasonersarXiv:2305.19555Gael Gendron, Qiming Bao, Michael Witbrock, et al.2023 · 61 citations
3. SRI-Sarnoff AURORA System at TRECVID 2012 Multimedia Event Detection and Recounting. ↗Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research · no summary yetHui Cheng et al.2012 · 25 citations
4. Abstract Meaning Representation-Based Logic-Driven Data Augmentation for Logical Reasoning ↗Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024 · no summary yetQiming Bao et al.2024 · 8 citations
5. Team SRI-Sarnoff 's AURORA System @ TRECVID 2011 ↗no summary yetHui Cheng et al.2011 · 6 citations
6. Disentangling Reasoning Logic to Resolve Explicit Knowledge ConflictsAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Xianda Zheng, Zijian Huang, Meng-Fen Chiang, et al.2026
7. Evo-PI: Aligning Medical Reasoning via Evolving Principle-Guided SupervisionAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Xianda Zheng, Huan Gao, Meng-Fen Chiang, et al.2026

🤝 Co-authors here

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

• Kaiqi Zhao ×2
• Meng-Fen Chiang ×2
• Xianda Zheng ×2

Venues

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

• Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) ×2: ACL 2026 ×2
• Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2024
• Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research
• Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 63 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 11 citing papers with a page here →.

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