--- title: "Christopher Akiki — author profile and papers" description: "Christopher Akiki: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023), h-index 10 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-akiki/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-akiki/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Christopher Akiki # Christopher Akiki 2 papers on this site · 2023 Christopher Akiki has 2 papers on this site, in 2023, most of them on [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/); often with [Chenghao Mou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenghao-mou/), [Albert Villanova del Moral](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/albert-villanova-del-moral/), [Alex Gu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-gu/). [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5033794353) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1634-5068) · [**h-index 10**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5033794353) · [40 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5033794353) · [567 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5033794353&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [2 works on this site](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-akiki/#papers) · [228 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-akiki/cited-by/) · 2 more works in our library 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=Christopher+Akiki) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Christopher+Akiki) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Christopher+Akiki) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Christopher+Akiki) ## Affiliations - [Leipzig University](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/leipzig-university/) · Leipzig, Germany —2020–2024 on 26 papers - [Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/center-for-scalable-data-analytics-and-artificial-intelligence/) · Dresden, Germany —2023–2024 on 11 papers From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 6 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Topics [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP 1](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2023** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-akiki/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[SantaCoder: don't reach for the stars!](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/allal-2023-santacoder-don-t-reach-stars/)** *(2023 · 164 citations)* Most code LLMs are built with little transparency: training data, preprocessing, and design choices are rarely disclosed. 2. **[The BigScience ROOTS Corpus: A 1.6TB Composite Multilingual Dataset](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/lauren-2023-ccon-bigscience-roots-corpus-1-6tb/)** *(2023 · 145 citations)* Training large language models requires huge text collections. Most such corpora are never published, and multilingual ones are especially scarce and poorly documented. This paper describes how the BigScience workshop built ROOTS (Responsible Open-science Open-collaboration Text Sources). BigScience was a year-long… ## Also in our library 2 more works of theirs are in our library without a page here yet; they will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 12 of 15 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Chenghao Mou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chenghao-mou/) ×2 - [Albert Villanova del Moral](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/albert-villanova-del-moral/) - [Alex Gu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alex-gu/) - [Carolyn Jane Anderson](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/carolyn-jane-anderson/) - [Hugo Laurençon](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hugo-lauren-ccon/) - [Huu Nguyen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/huu-nguyen/) - [Leandro Von Werra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leandro-von-werra/) - [Logesh Kumar Umapathi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/logesh-kumar-umapathi/) - [Loubna Ben Allal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/loubna-ben-allal/) - [Lucile Saulnier](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lucile-saulnier/) - [Manan Dey](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manan-dey/) - [Niklas Muennighoff](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/niklas-muennighoff/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 228 times (of the 140 884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [27 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/christopher-akiki/cited-by/).