--- title: "Benjamin Minixhofer — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Benjamin Minixhofer, University of Cambridge: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2022–2025), h-index 4 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-minixhofer/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-minixhofer/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Benjamin Minixhofer # Benjamin Minixhofer Benjamin Minixhofer has 2 papers in our library, in 2022–2025, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Tokenization & segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Ivan Vulić](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivan-vulic/). 2 papers in our library · 2022–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5011959340) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6520-4245) · [**h-index 4**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5011959340) · [23 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5011959340) · [73 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5011959340&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-minixhofer/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 98 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-minixhofer/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6798](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/68/#star-6798) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Benjamin+Minixhofer) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Benjamin+Minixhofer) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Benjamin+Minixhofer) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Benjamin+Minixhofer) ## Affiliations [🎓**University of Cambridge** Cambridge · United Kingdom 2021–2026 · 14 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cambridge/) · [🎓**Johannes Kepler University of Linz** Linz · Austria 2021–2022 · 5 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/johannes-kepler-university-of-linz/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 3 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Tokenization & segmentation · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Subword tokenization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/subword-tokenization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-minixhofer/year/2025/) · [**2022** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-minixhofer/year/2022/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[WECHSEL: Effective initialization of subword embeddings for cross-lingual transfer of monolingual language models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/minixhofer-2022-wechsel-effective-initialization-subword-embeddings/)** *(2022 · 91 citations)* Pretraining large language models is expensive, and most strong models exist only for English. Massively multilingual models lose quality as more languages are added, and training a monolingual model from scratch in another language needs roughly as much compute as the original English model. The authors propose… 2. **[Retrofitting Large Language Models with Dynamic Tokenization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/feher-2025-retrofitting-large-language-models-dynamic/)** *(2025 · 11 citations)* Most language models use a fixed subword tokenizer. This tokenizer often splits non-English text into too many pieces, which makes inference slower and more costly and spreads quality unevenly across languages. The authors adapt existing subword-based models to segment text adaptively, without retraining them. For… ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[WECHSEL: Effective initialization of subword embeddings for cross-lingual transfer of monolingual language models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/minixhofer-2022-wechsel-effective-initialization-subword-embeddings/) [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/)**Benjamin Minixhofer, Fabian Paischer, Navid Rekabsaz*2022 · 91 citations* 2. **[Retrofitting Large Language Models with Dynamic Tokenization](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/feher-2025-retrofitting-large-language-models-dynamic/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Darius Feher, Ivan Vulić, Benjamin Minixhofer*2025 · 11 citations* 3. **[Retrofitting language models to operate over bytes ↗](https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-11111-4) Nature · no summary yet**Benjamin Minixhofer et al.*2026 · 1 citation* ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Ivan Vulić](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ivan-vulic/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/): [ACL 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2025/) - [Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/): [NAACL 2022](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/naacl/2022/) - Nature ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 98 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [19 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/benjamin-minixhofer/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026