--- title: "Nicolas Boizard — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Nicolas Boizard, Université Paris-Saclay: 3 papers on Elamur Research (2024–2025), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicolas-boizard/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicolas-boizard/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Nicolas Boizard # Nicolas Boizard Nicolas Boizard has 3 papers in our library, in 2024–2025, 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/), [Tokenization & segmentation](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/); often with [Celine Hudelot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/celine-hudelot/), [Duarte M. Alves](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/duarte-m-alves/), [Joao Alves](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joao-alves/). 3 papers in our library · 2024–2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5064115506) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5064115506) · [10 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5064115506) · [11 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5064115506&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 3 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicolas-boizard/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 165 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicolas-boizard/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6631](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/67/#star-6631) 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=Nicolas+Boizard) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Nicolas+Boizard) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Nicolas+Boizard) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Nicolas+Boizard) ## Affiliations [🔬**CentraleSupélec** Gif-sur-Yvette · France 2025–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/centralesupelec/) · [🎓**Université Paris-Saclay** Gif-sur-Yvette · France 2025–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/universite-paris-saclay/) · [🔬**Mathématiques et Informatique pour la Complexité et les Systèmes** Gif-sur-Yvette · France 2024 · 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/labs/mathematiques-et-informatique-pour-la-complexite-et-les-systemes/) 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 5 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[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/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Language and Linguistics · 3 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) 🧭 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 · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multilingual-nlp/) · [Efficient models & compression · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/efficient-models/) · [Tokenization & segmentation · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/tokenization/) 💡 Concepts 1 Key ideas and methods explained on our concept pages.[Subword tokenization · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/concepts/subword-tokenization/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicolas-boizard/year/2025/) · [**2024** 1 paper](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicolas-boizard/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[EuroLLM-9B: Technical Report](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/martins-2025-eurollm-9b-technical-report/)** *(2025 · 45 citations)* Open large language models tend to serve English and a few major languages well, leaving many European languages behind. 2. **[Towards Cross-Tokenizer Distillation: the Universal Logit Distillation Loss for LLMs](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/boizard-2024-towards-cross-tokenizer-distillation-universal/)** *(2024 · 35 citations)* Logit-based knowledge distillation usually relies on KL divergence. This requires the teacher and the student to share one vocabulary, but LLM families rarely share tokenizers. As a result, practitioners mostly fall back on fine-tuning the student on text the teacher has generated. Drawing on optimal transport, the… 3. **[EuroBERT: Scaling Multilingual Encoders for European Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/boizard-2025-eurobert-scaling-multilingual-encoders-european/)** *(2025 · 34 citations)* Bidirectional encoders still power most retrieval, classification and regression systems, but recent modeling progress has mostly gone into decoder-only LLMs. ## 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. **[CroissantLLM: A Truly Bilingual French-English Language Model ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00786) arXiv:2402.00786 · no summary yet**Manuel Faysse et al.*2024 · 59 citations* 2. [**EuroLLM-9B: Technical Report arXiv:2506.04079**Pedro Henrique Martins, Joao Alves, Patrick Fernandes, et al.*2025 · 45 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/martins-2025-eurollm-9b-technical-report/) 3. [**Towards Cross-Tokenizer Distillation: the Universal Logit Distillation Loss for LLMs arXiv:2402.12030 · Transactions on Machine Learning Research, January 2025**Nicolas Boizard, Kevin El Haddad, Celine Hudelot, et al.*2024 · 35 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/boizard-2024-towards-cross-tokenizer-distillation-universal/) 4. [**EuroBERT: Scaling Multilingual Encoders for European Languages arXiv:2503.05500**Nicolas Boizard, Hippolyte Gisserot-Boukhlef, Duarte M. Alves, et al.*2025 · 34 citations*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/boizard-2025-eurobert-scaling-multilingual-encoders-european/) ## Co-authors here 12 of 15 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Celine Hudelot](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/celine-hudelot/) ×2 - [Duarte M. Alves](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/duarte-m-alves/) ×2 - [Joao Alves](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/joao-alves/) ×2 - [Pierre Colombo](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/pierre-colombo/) ×2 - [Amin Farajian](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/amin-farajian/) - [André F. T. Martins](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/andre-f-t-martins/) - [Caio Corro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/caio-corro/) - [Fanny Jourdan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fanny-jourdan/) - [Jose Pombal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/jose-pombal/) - [Manuel Faysse](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/manuel-faysse/) - [Mateusz Klimaszewski](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mateusz-klimaszewski/) - [Nuno M. Guerreiro](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nuno-m-guerreiro/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 165 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [44 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicolas-boizard/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026