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Simon Woodhead

Simon Woodhead has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, most of them on Language models & pretraining, Reasoning; often with Alexander Scarlatos, Andrew Lan, Naiming Liu.

2 papers in our library · 2023–2024

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 9 · 53 works · 219 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 2 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 28 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9393

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 Affiliations

🎓University of Massachusetts AmherstAmherst Center · United States2024–2026 · 12 paperscurrent

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Computer Science · 2 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksInformation Systems · 2 worksComputer Science Applications · 1 workArts and Humanities · 1 workLanguage and Linguistics · 1 work

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

 Works by year

2020s

20241 paper20231 paper

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Improving the Validity of Automatically Generated Feedback via Reinforcement Learning (2024 · 47 citations)
    LLM-written feedback on students' wrong answers in math must be mathematically sound and must also follow good tutoring practice.
  2. Novice Learner and Expert Tutor: Evaluating Math Reasoning Abilities of Large Language Models with Misconceptions (2023 · 14 citations)
    Standard math benchmarks for LLMs only check whether a model reaches the right answer. This paper asks whether models understand mathematical concepts well enough to reason about wrong answers. It uses multiple-choice grade-school questions from the Eedi platform, where each distractor is tied to a known student…

 Co-authors here

6 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 28 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 6 citing papers with a page here →.

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