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Sean O'Brien

Sean O'Brien has 3 papers in our library, in 2023–2025, most of them on Language models & pretraining, Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP, Reasoning; often with Asli Celikyilmaz, Jane Dwivedi-Yu, Luke Zettlemoyer.

3 papers in our library · 2023–2025

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 16 · 102 works · 974 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 3 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 118 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4959

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 Affiliations

🎓University of California San DiegoSan Diego · United States2025 · 1 papercurrent🎓University of Notre DameNotre Dame · United States2003–2014 · 21 papers🎓New Mexico State UniversityLas Cruces · United States1985–1999 · 8 papers🔬DEVCOM Army Research LaboratoryAdelphi · United States1998–2008 · 7 papers🏛️United States ArmyArlington · United States2004–2008 · 6 papers🎓Australian National UniversityCanberra · Australia2018–2020 · 3 papers🔬Australian Centre for Robotic VisionBrisbane · Australia2018 · 3 papers🔬Sandia National LaboratoriesAlbuquerque · United States2016–2018 · 3 papers🎓University of California, BerkeleyBerkeley · United States2021–2022 · 2 papers🎓University of Maryland, College ParkCollege Park · United States2015 · 2 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 5 more institutions on single bylines are not listed.

 Concepts, shelves and topics

Of its works in our library: the number of works on each and its rating among them.

📚 Shelves 5The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 3 worksComputer Science · 3 worksArtificial Intelligence · 3 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 3 worksComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work

🧭 Topics 3Research subjects and languages the work is about.Language models & pretraining · 3 worksReasoning · 1 workMultilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20251 paperAdaptive Originality Filtering: Rejection Based Prompting and RiddleScore for Culturally Grounded Multilingual Riddle Generation20232 papersSean O'Brien's papers of 2023

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Contrastive Decoding Improves Reasoning in Large Language Models (2023 · 67 citations)
    LLMs are usually decoded differently depending on the task: open-ended writing relies on truncated sampling, while reasoning tasks typically use greedy decoding.
  2. Shepherd: A Critic for Language Model Generation (2023 · 59 citations)
    Shepherd tackles the problem of automatically critiquing text produced by large language models, which still often generate false or incoherent answers.
  3. Adaptive Originality Filtering: Rejection Based Prompting and RiddleScore for Culturally Grounded Multilingual Riddle Generation (2025 · 1 citation)
    When LLMs are asked to write riddles in several languages, they tend to reuse familiar templates or repeat riddles they memorized during pretraining.

 Co-authors here

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

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 118 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); 11 citing papers with a page here →.

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