--- title: "Carlos Escolano — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Carlos Escolano, Barcelona Supercomputing Center: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carlos-escolano/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carlos-escolano/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Carlos Escolano # Carlos Escolano Carlos Escolano has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Dominik Macháček](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dominik-machacek/), [Jordi Luque](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jordi-luque/), [Jorge Iranzo-Sánchez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jorge-iranzo-sanchez/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5130818330) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5130818330) · [16 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5130818330) · [1 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5130818330&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carlos-escolano/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 7 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carlos-escolano/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10132](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/102/#star-10132) 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=Carlos+Escolano) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Carlos+Escolano) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Carlos+Escolano) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Carlos+Escolano) ## Affiliations [🎓**Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya** Barcelona · Spain 2026 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universitat-politecnica-de-catalunya/) · [🔬**Barcelona Supercomputing Center** Barcelona · Spain 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/barcelona-supercomputing-center/) 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/) · [Signal Processing · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/signal-processing/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carlos-escolano/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Hearing to Translate: The Effectiveness of Speech Modality Integration into LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/papi-2026-hearing-translate-effectiveness-speech-modality/)** *(2026 · 7 citations)* Speech-LLMs attach an audio encoder to a large language model so it can translate speech directly, without a separate transcription step. 2. **[Optimizing Multilingual LLMs via Federated Learning: A Study of Client Language Composition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sant-2026-optimizing-multilingual-llms-federated-learning/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Federated learning (FL) of multilingual LLMs is difficult when clients hold text in different languages. These non-IID splits cause client drift and tend to disadvantage languages with fewer resources. The authors study how the language mix inside each client's local data affects global model quality, cross-lingual… ## 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. **[Hearing to Translate: The Effectiveness of Speech Modality Integration into LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/papi-2026-hearing-translate-effectiveness-speech-modality/) [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/)**Sara Papi, Javier Garcia Gilabert, Zachary Hopton, et al.*2026 · 7 citations* 2. **[Optimizing Multilingual LLMs via Federated Learning: A Study of Client Language Composition](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/sant-2026-optimizing-multilingual-llms-federated-learning/) [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/)**Aleix Sant, Jordi Luque, Carlos Escolano*2026 · 1 citation* 3. **[Reference-Free Reinforcement Learning Fine-Tuning for MT: A Seq2Seq Perspective ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.15976) arXiv:2605.15976 · no summary yet**Ernesto Garcia-Estrada, Carlos Escolano, Jose A. 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Fonallosa*2026* ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Dominik Macháček](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/dominik-machacek/) - [Jordi Luque](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jordi-luque/) - [Jorge Iranzo-Sánchez](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jorge-iranzo-sanchez/) - [Maike Züfle](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maike-zufle/) - [Patricia Schmidtova](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/patricia-schmidtova/) - [Sara Papi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sara-papi/) - [Vilém Zouhar](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/vilem-zouhar/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/): [LREC 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/lrec/2026/) - [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/): [Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics (TACL) 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/tacl/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 7 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carlos-escolano/cited-by/). Updated 30 October 2026