--- title: "Negar Foroutan — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Negar Foroutan, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 7 — affiliations, topics…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/negar-foroutan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/negar-foroutan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Negar Foroutan # Negar Foroutan Negar Foroutan has 2 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, most of them on [Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/); often with [Alfonso Amayuelas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alfonso-amayuelas/), [Amir Hossein Kargaran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amir-hossein-kargaran/), [Angelika Romanou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/angelika-romanou/). 2 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5041639724) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9640-897X) · [**h-index 7**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5041639724) · [25 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5041639724) · [140 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5041639724&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/negar-foroutan/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 228 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/negar-foroutan/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #4791](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/48/#star-4791) 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=Negar+Foroutan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Negar+Foroutan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Negar+Foroutan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Negar+Foroutan) ## Affiliations [🎓**École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne** Lausanne · Switzerland 2020–2026 · 18 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/ecole-polytechnique-federale-de-lausanne/) · [🎓**Shiraz University** Shiraz · Iran 2015–2017 · 6 papers](https://ror.org/028qtbk54) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 2 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).[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/) · [Information Systems · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/information-systems/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 Topics 2 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Multilingual & cross-lingual NLP · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Language models & pretraining · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 1 paper Negar Foroutan's papers of 2025](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/penedo-2025-fineweb2-one-pipeline-scale-them/) · [**2024** 1 paper Negar Foroutan's papers of 2024](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/romanou-2024-include-evaluating-multilingual-language-understanding/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[FineWeb2: One Pipeline to Scale Them All — Adapting Pre-Training Data Processing to Every Language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/penedo-2025-fineweb2-one-pipeline-scale-them/)** *(2025 · 97 citations)* Building strong multilingual LLMs is hard mainly because data-cleaning recipes tuned for English do not transfer well. 2. **[INCLUDE: Evaluating Multilingual Language Understanding with Regional Knowledge](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/romanou-2024-include-evaluating-multilingual-language-understanding/)** *(2024 · 73 citations)* Multilingual LLMs are hard to assess outside English because few evaluation sets exist. Many that do are translated from English, so they carry translation artifacts and ignore local context such as national laws, history or culture. INCLUDE addresses this with a benchmark built from exams written by native speakers… ## All works 3 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 2 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them. 1. [**FineWeb2: One Pipeline to Scale Them All — Adapting Pre-Training Data Processing to Every Language arXiv:2506.20920**Guilherme Penedo, Hynek Kydliček, Vinko Sabolčec, et al.*2025 · 97 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/penedo-2025-fineweb2-one-pipeline-scale-them/) 2. [**INCLUDE: Evaluating Multilingual Language Understanding with Regional Knowledge arXiv:2411.19799**Angelika Romanou, Negar Foroutan, Anna Sotnikova, et al.*2024 · 73 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/romanou-2024-include-evaluating-multilingual-language-understanding/) 3. **[Parity-Aware Byte-Pair Encoding: Improving Cross-lingual Fairness in Tokenization ↗](https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.342/) Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers) · no summary yet**Negar Foroutan et al.*2026 · 11 citations* ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Alfonso Amayuelas](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/alfonso-amayuelas/) - [Amir Hossein Kargaran](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amir-hossein-kargaran/) - [Angelika Romanou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/angelika-romanou/) - [Bettina Messmer](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bettina-messmer/) - [Colin Raffel](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/colin-raffel/) - [Guilherme Penedo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/guilherme-penedo/) - [Leandro Von Werra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/leandro-von-werra/) - [Martin Jaggi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/martin-jaggi/) - [Rishabh Maheshwary](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/rishabh-maheshwary/) - [Shivalika Singh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shivalika-singh/) - [Thomas Wolf](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/thomas-wolf/) - [Zeming Chen](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeming-chen/) ## 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/) ×2 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 228 times (of the 141,840 papers whose bibliographies we read); [24 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/negar-foroutan/cited-by/). Updated 24 October 2026