--- title: "Konstantin Dobler — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Konstantin Dobler, Hasso Plattner Institute: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2023–2024), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/konstantin-dobler/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/konstantin-dobler/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Konstantin Dobler # Konstantin Dobler Konstantin Dobler has 2 papers in our library, in 2023–2024, 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 [Gerard de Melo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gerard-de-melo/). 2 papers in our library · 2023–2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5059253578) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5059253578) · [15 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5059253578) · [16 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5059253578&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/konstantin-dobler/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 58 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/konstantin-dobler/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #8728](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/88/#star-8728) 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=Konstantin+Dobler) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Konstantin+Dobler) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Konstantin+Dobler) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Konstantin+Dobler) ## Affiliations [🔬**Hasso Plattner Institute** Potsdam · Germany 2022–2026 · 6 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/hasso-plattner-institute/) · [🎓**University of Potsdam** Potsdam · Germany 2022–2024 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-potsdam/) 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 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [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/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 1 work](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/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Tokenization & segmentation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/konstantin-dobler/year/2024/) · [**2023** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/konstantin-dobler/year/2023/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[FOCUS: Effective Embedding Initialization for Monolingual Specialization of Multilingual Models](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dobler-2023-focus-effective-embedding-initialization-monolingual/)** *(2023 · 62 citations)* Adapting a multilingual model to one language often calls for a new tokenizer tailored to that language. The pretrained embedding matrix then no longer fits the new vocabulary. The authors propose FOCUS (Fast Overlapping Token Combinations Using Sparsemax) to build a sensible starting embedding matrix for the new… 2. **[Language Adaptation on a Tight Academic Compute Budget: Tokenizer Swapping Works and Pure bfloat16 Is Enough](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/dobler-2024-language-adaptation-tight-academic-compute/)** *(2024)* The paper asks whether an academic lab with only a handful of server-grade GPUs and a few days of access can usefully adapt a 7B LLM to a new language through continued pretraining. ## Co-authors here 1 co-author with a page, the most papers together first. - [Gerard de Melo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/gerard-de-melo/) ×2 ## 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/) - [Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/): [EMNLP 2023](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/emnlp/2023/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 58 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [7 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/konstantin-dobler/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026