Chris Olah

14.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
20 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Chris Olah is a scholar working on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Chris Olah has authored 20 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence, 7 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 2 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Chris Olah's work include Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (6 papers), Neural Networks and Applications (3 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (3 papers). Chris Olah is often cited by papers focused on Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning (6 papers), Neural Networks and Applications (3 papers) and Advanced Vision and Imaging (3 papers). Chris Olah collaborates with scholars based in United States and Canada. Chris Olah's co-authors include Augustus Odena, Vincent Dumoulin, Ludwig Schubert, Alexander Mordvintsev, Shan Carter, Ian Johnson, Nick Cammarata, Gabriel Goh, Arvind Satyanarayan and Michael Petrov and has published in prestigious journals such as .

In The Last Decade

Chris Olah

20 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Deconvolution and Checkerboard Artifacts

2016 983 citations Augustus Odena, Vincent Dumoulin et al. profile →
Feature Visualization

2017 457 citations Chris Olah, Alexander Mordvintsev et al. profile →
The Building Blocks of Interpretability

2018 295 citations Chris Olah, Arvind Satyanarayan et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Chris Olah United States	12	1000	912	218	174	165	20	2.2k
Augustus Odena United States	6	1.4k 1.4×	576 0.6×	278 1.3×	69 0.4×	189 1.1×	10	2.1k
Martín Arjovsky United States	4	1.5k 1.5×	1.0k 1.2×	223 1.0×	75 0.4×	183 1.1×	4	2.8k
Olivier Lézoray France	19	958 1.0×	436 0.5×	228 1.0×	78 0.4×	107 0.6×	95	1.5k
Mathilde Caron United States	5	1.8k 1.8×	1.4k 1.6×	267 1.2×	60 0.3×	335 2.0×	10	3.1k
Camille Couprie France	12	1.4k 1.4×	555 0.6×	270 1.2×	66 0.4×	151 0.9×	23	2.3k
Chandra Kambhamettu United States	29	1.6k 1.6×	358 0.4×	228 1.0×	207 1.2×	166 1.0×	195	3.1k
Kim L. Boyer United States	28	2.0k 2.0×	396 0.4×	476 2.2×	96 0.6×	222 1.3×	113	2.9k
Gang Yang China	19	1.1k 1.1×	593 0.7×	272 1.2×	76 0.4×	159 1.0×	79	2.2k
Lior Shamir United States	21	762 0.8×	427 0.5×	216 1.0×	217 1.2×	207 1.3×	121	2.1k
Martin Heusel Austria	6	1.7k 1.7×	585 0.6×	139 0.6×	57 0.3×	94 0.6×	6	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Chris Olah

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chris Olah

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chris Olah

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chris Olah. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chris Olah based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Chris Olah. Chris Olah is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Petrov, Michael, Chelsea Voss, Ludwig Schubert, et al.. (2021). Weight Banding. 6(4). 5 indexed citations

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Schubert, Ludwig, Chelsea Voss, & Chris Olah. (2021). High/Low frequency detectors. 6(1). 9 indexed citations

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Goh, Gabriel, Nick Cammarata, Chelsea Voss, et al.. (2021). Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks. 6(3). 115 indexed citations

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Voss, Chelsea, Gabriel Goh, Nick Cammarata, et al.. (2021). Branch Specialization. 6(4). 8 indexed citations

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Voss, Chelsea, Nick Cammarata, Gabriel Goh, et al.. (2021). Visualizing Weights. 6(2). 8 indexed citations

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Olah, Chris, Nick Cammarata, Ludwig Schubert, et al.. (2020). An Overview of Early Vision in InceptionV1. 5(4). 21 indexed citations

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Olah, Chris, et al.. (2020). Zoom In: An Introduction to Circuits. 5(3). 92 indexed citations

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Cammarata, Nick, et al.. (2020). Curve Detectors. 5(6). 11 indexed citations

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Olah, Chris, Nick Cammarata, Chelsea Voss, Ludwig Schubert, & Gabriel Goh. (2020). Naturally Occurring Equivariance in Neural Networks. 5(12). 12 indexed citations

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Hilton, Jacob, Nick Cammarata, Shan Carter, Gabriel Goh, & Chris Olah. (2020). Understanding RL vision. 5(11). 12 indexed citations

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Cammarata, Nick, et al.. (2020). Thread: Circuits. 5(3). 23 indexed citations

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Greydanus, Sam & Chris Olah. (2019). The Paths Perspective on Value Learning. 4(9). 2 indexed citations

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Carter, Shan, Zan Armstrong, Ludwig Schubert, Ian Johnson, & Chris Olah. (2019). Activation Atlas. 4(3). 82 indexed citations

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Olah, Chris, Arvind Satyanarayan, Ian Johnson, et al.. (2018). The Building Blocks of Interpretability. 3(3). 295 indexed citations breakdown →

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Mordvintsev, Alexander, Nicola Pezzotti, Ludwig Schubert, & Chris Olah. (2018). Differentiable Image Parameterizations. 3(7). 44 indexed citations

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Olah, Chris & Shan Carter. (2017). Research Debt. 2(3). 9 indexed citations

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Olah, Chris, Alexander Mordvintsev, & Ludwig Schubert. (2017). Feature Visualization. 2(11). 457 indexed citations breakdown →

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Olah, Chris & Shan Carter. (2016). Attention and Augmented Recurrent Neural Networks. 1(9). 31 indexed citations

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Odena, Augustus, Vincent Dumoulin, & Chris Olah. (2016). Deconvolution and Checkerboard Artifacts. 1(10). 983 indexed citations breakdown →

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Carter, Shan, David Ha, Ian Johnson, & Chris Olah. (2016). Experiments in Handwriting with a Neural Network. 1(12). 6 indexed citations

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