Scholar
William Merrill
Google Scholar ID: CyjChJQAAAAJ
Ai2 / TTIC
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,916
H-index
21
i10-index
31
Publications
20
Co-authors
25
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Contact
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Dissertation publicly released in 2025
- Paper 'Between Circuits and Chomsky: Pre-pretraining on Formal Languages Imparts Linguistic Biases' at ACL 2025 received Outstanding Paper Award
- Co-authored 'OLMo: Accelerating the Science of Language Models' at ACL 2024, awarded Best Theme Paper
- Published numerous papers at top venues including ICLR, ICML, EMNLP, COLM, TACL, ACL, and DLT on topics such as transformer expressivity, semantic learning in language models, and state-space models
- Key contributions include works like 'Exact Expressive Power of Transformers with Padding', 'A Little Depth Goes a Long Way: The Expressive Power of Log-Depth Transformers', and 'The Expressive Power of Transformers with Chain of Thought'
