--- title: "Maximilian Idahl — author profile and papers in our library" description: "Maximilian Idahl, Leibniz University Hannover: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maximilian-idahl/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maximilian-idahl/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Maximilian Idahl # Maximilian Idahl Maximilian Idahl 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/), [English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/); often with [Abbas Goher Khan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abbas-goher-khan/), [Maurice Kraus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maurice-kraus/), [Richard Rutmann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-rutmann/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5024637568) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1866-6436) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5024637568) · [22 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5024637568) · [145 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5024637568&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maximilian-idahl/#papers) · 🔗 Cited 1 time in our library · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #12547](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/126/#star-12547) 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=Maximilian+Idahl) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Maximilian+Idahl) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Maximilian+Idahl) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Maximilian+Idahl) ## Affiliations [🎓**Leibniz University Hannover** Hanover · Germany 2020–2026 · 9 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/leibniz-university-hannover/) · [🔬**L3S Research Center** Hanover · Germany 2020–2025 · 6 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/l3s-research-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 6 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/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maximilian-idahl/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[A Sovereign, Open-Source Foundation Model for German and English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/droste-2026-sovereign-open-source-foundation-model/)** *(2026 · 2 citations)* Soofi S 30B-A3B is a German–English base model built by a German research consortium. It targets three weaknesses of current open models: releases that share weights but hide how they were made, thin coverage of German in multilingual models, and the high serving cost of dense Transformers at long context. The team… 2. **[LongTailQA: Benchmarking LLMs and RAG Models on Disambiguated Long-Tail Entities](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/xion-2026-longtailqa-benchmarking-llms-rag-models/)** *(2026)* Benchmarks for long-tail question answering are often used to show that LLMs forget rare facts and that RAG helps. ## Co-authors here 7 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Abbas Goher Khan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abbas-goher-khan/) - [Maurice Kraus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maurice-kraus/) - [Richard Rutmann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-rutmann/) - [Ruben Harle](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruben-harle/) - [Sebastian Sztwiertnia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-sztwiertnia/) - [Timm Heine Ruland](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timm-heine-ruland/) - [Wolfgang Nejdl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/wolfgang-nejdl/) ## 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/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 1 time (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read). 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