--- title: "Gregor Bachmann — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Gregor Bachmann: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 17 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregor-bachmann/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregor-bachmann/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Gregor Bachmann # Gregor Bachmann Gregor Bachmann has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on [Tokenization & segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/); often with [Tiago Pimentel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tiago-pimentel/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5034212403) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7682-6381) · [**h-index 17**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5034212403) · [162 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5034212403) · [962 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5034212403&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregor-bachmann/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 41 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregor-bachmann/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #9937](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/100/#star-9937) 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=Gregor+Bachmann) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Gregor+Bachmann) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Gregor+Bachmann) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Gregor+Bachmann) ## Affiliations [🎓**ETH Zurich** Zurich · Switzerland 1976–2025 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/eth-zurich/) · [🎓**Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen** Giessen · Germany 1993–2011 · 17 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/justus-liebig-universitat-giessen/) · [🎓**University of Cologne** Cologne · Germany 1996–2001 · 8 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-cologne/) · [🏥**Kerckhoff Klinik** Bad Nauheim · Germany 2001–2011 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/04m54m956) · [🏥**University Hospital of North Norway** Tromsø · Norway 2002–2004 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/030v5kp38) · [🏥**Klinik und Poliklinik für Hals-, Nasen-, Ohrenheilkunde** Cologne · Germany 1996–2001 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/009nhnc47) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 8 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 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/) · [Computational Theory and Mathematics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computational-theory-and-mathematics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Tokenization & segmentation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregor-bachmann/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregor-bachmann/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[The pitfalls of next-token prediction](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bachmann-2024-pitfalls-next-token-prediction/)** *(2024 · 39 citations)* The authors test whether a model trained only to predict the next token can solve tasks where the answer has to be planned in advance. 2. **[Tokenisation is NP-Complete](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/whittington-2025-tokenisation-is-np-complete/)** *(2025 · 4 citations)* Popular subword tokenisers such as BPE and UnigramLM rely on greedy or heuristic training. They are therefore not guaranteed to reach the best value of the objective they target. This paper asks whether an optimal tokeniser can be found efficiently when the objective is compression, meaning the tokenised dataset… ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Tiago Pimentel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/tiago-pimentel/) ## 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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 41 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [11 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gregor-bachmann/cited-by/). Updated 3 November 2026