Omar Khattab
Assistant Professor, TIBCO Founders Career Development Professor
Studies NLP and AI systems, including declarative programming of language-model pipelines and composing retrieval and reasoning.
Omar Khattab's lab at MIT works on reasoning & agents and knowledge, QA & retrieval. 12 papers since 2023. 5 PhD students and 1 master's student. 7 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 0%
- PhD students
- 5
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 7
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 6 papers2026 · T1 0 · collecting
- 1 papers2025 · T1 0
- 4 papers2024 · T1 0
- 1 papers2023 · T1 0
T1 venuesOther
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Reasoning & agents1 paper
- Knowledge, QA & retrieval1 paper
- pipelines1 paper
- language-model0 papers
- programming0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20266 papers
- ICLR (Oral) | paperGEPA: Reflective Prompt Evolution Can Outperform Reinforcement Learning
- COLM | paperMeta-Harness: End-to-End Optimization of Model Harnesses
- NeurIPS | paperOBLIQ-Bench: Exposing Overlooked Bottlenecks in Modern Retrievers with Latent and Implicit Queries
- ACM CAIS | paperReasoning-Intensive Regression
- NeurIPS | paperRecursive Language Models
- NeurIPS | paperVector Policy Optimization: Training for Diversity Improves Test-Time Search
20251 paper
- SIGIR (Best Paper Award) | paperWARP: An Efficient Engine for Multi-Vector Retrieval
20244 papers
- NAACL | paperAssisting in Writing Wikipedia-like Articles From Scratch with Large Language Models
- ICLR (Spotlight) | paperDSPy: Compiling Declarative Language Model Calls into Self-Improving Pipelines
- EMNLP | paperFine-Tuning and Prompt Optimization: Two Great Steps that Work Better Together
- EMNLP | paperOptimizing Instructions and Demonstrations for Multi-Stage Language Model Programs
20231 paper
- TMLR | paperHolistic evaluation of language models
Where alumni went7 listed, 0% to industry
Industry 0Academia 7
Also to
- Stanford University
- MIT
- ETH Zurich
Apply to MITFall 2027
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