--- title: "Francesco Orabona — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Francesco Orabona, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2025–2026), h-index 29…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-orabona/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-orabona/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Francesco Orabona # Francesco Orabona Francesco Orabona has 3 papers in our library, in 2025–2026, 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/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Sultan Alrashed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sultan-alrashed/), [Chadi Helwe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chadi-helwe/). 3 papers in our library · 2025–2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5044260265) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8523-6845) · [**h-index 29**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5044260265) · [188 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5044260265) · [2,868 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5044260265&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-orabona/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 9 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-orabona/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #11368](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/114/#star-11368) 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=Francesco+Orabona) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Francesco+Orabona) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Francesco+Orabona) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Francesco+Orabona) ## Affiliations [🎓**King Abdullah University of Science and Technology** Jeddah · Saudi Arabia 2023–2026 · 19 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/king-abdullah-university-of-science-and-technology/) · [🔬**Idiap Research Institute** Martigny-Combe · Switzerland 2007–2010 · 16 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/idiap-research-institute/) · [🎓**Boston University** Boston · United States 2018–2023 · 14 papersEmployment · Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/boston-university/) · [🎓**Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago** Chicago · United States 2012–2014 · 14 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/toyota-technological-institute-at-chicago/) · [🎓**Stony Brook University** Stony Brook · United States 2016–2019 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stony-brook-university/) · [🎓**University of Genoa** Genoa · Italy 2005–2007 · 11 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-genoa/) · [🎓**University of Milan** Milan · Italy 2010–2011 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-milan/) · [🏢**Yahoo** Sunnyvale · United States 2014–2019 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/yahoo/) · [🏢**Yahoo** London · United Kingdom 2016 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/companies/yahoo-united-kingdom/) · [🎓**École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne** Lausanne · Switzerland 2008–2010 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ecole-polytechnique-federale-de-lausanne/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 3 more institutions on single bylines are not listed. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 6 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Decision Sciences · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/) · [Management Science and Operations Research · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/decision-sciences/management-science-and-operations-research/) 🧭 Topics 4 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 · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Semitic languages · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Reasoning · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-orabona/year/2026/) · [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-orabona/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Mix, MinHash, and Match: Cross-Source Agreement for Multilingual Pretraining Datasets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alrashed-2025-mix-minhash-match-cross-source/)** *(2025 · 1 citation)* Web corpora for languages other than English are crawled again and again by separate groups, so the same pages often appear in several public datasets. 2. **[Cards Against Contamination: TCG-Bench for Difficulty-Scalable Multilingual LLM Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alrashed-2026-cards-against-contamination-tcg-bench/)** *(2026)* Game benchmarks for LLMs usually rely on well-known games such as chess, whose strategies are widely documented online. 3. **[SmolKalam: Ensemble Quality-Filtered Translation at Scale for High Quality Arabic Post-Training Data](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alrashed-2025-smolkalam-ensemble-quality-filtered-translation/)** *(2025)* Arabic LLMs have reasonable pre-training corpora, but large post-training sets are scarce. Such sets need multi-turn chats, reasoning traces and tool calls, and unfiltered machine translation is too noisy for this stage. The authors build SmolKalam, an Arabic version of a curated subset of SmolTalk2. Each sample is… ## All works 4 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. **[From N to N+1: Multiclass Transfer Incremental Learning ↗](https://doi.org/10.1109/cvpr.2013.431) IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · no summary yet**Ilja Kuzborskij, Francesco Orabona, Barbara Caputo*2013 · 145 citations* 2. [**Mix, MinHash, and Match: Cross-Source Agreement for Multilingual Pretraining Datasets arXiv:2512.18834**Sultan Alrashed, Francesco Orabona*2025 · 1 citation*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alrashed-2025-mix-minhash-match-cross-source/) 3. **[Cards Against Contamination: TCG-Bench for Difficulty-Scalable Multilingual LLM Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alrashed-2026-cards-against-contamination-tcg-bench/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Sultan AlRashed, Jianghui Wang, Francesco Orabona*2026* 4. [**SmolKalam: Ensemble Quality-Filtered Translation at Scale for High Quality Arabic Post-Training Data arXiv:2511.18411**Sultan Alrashed, Chadi Helwe, Francesco Orabona*2025*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alrashed-2025-smolkalam-ensemble-quality-filtered-translation/) ## Co-authors here 2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Sultan Alrashed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sultan-alrashed/) ×3 - [Chadi Helwe](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/chadi-helwe/) ## Venues Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page. - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 9 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/francesco-orabona/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026