Academic Author How Names Order To

Florian Trame`r† Nicholas Carlini Daphne Ippolito Chiyuan Zhang‡ Matthew Jagielski‡ Milad Nasr Christopher A. Choquette-Choo Katherine Lee:

Groups of the same authors often publish papers together. Many times, there is a clear first author or last author, and then a blob of people who all contributed equally, or whose contributions are too varied and nuanced to offer up an obvious ordering. In this work, we present several methods for choosing an author order given these constraints.