--- title: "Nils Lukas · Harvard University — author profile and papers" description: "Nils Lukas, Harvard University: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 6 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nils-lukas/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nils-lukas/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Nils Lukas # Nils Lukas Nils Lukas has 2 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on [Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/); often with [Juntian Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/juntian-zhang/), [Kshitij Mishra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kshitij-mishra/), [Salem Lahlou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salem-lahlou/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5086633938) · [ORCID](https://orcid.org/0009-0001-5891-9154) · [**h-index 6**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5086633938) · [37 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5086633938) · [394 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5086633938&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nils-lukas/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 101 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nils-lukas/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10967](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/110/#star-10967) 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=Nils+Lukas) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Nils+Lukas) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Nils+Lukas) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Nils+Lukas) ## Affiliations [🎓**Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence** Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates 2024–2026 · 5 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/mohamed-bin-zayed-university-of-artificial-intelligence/) · [🎓**Fudan University** Shanghai · China 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/fudan-university/) · [🎓**Harvard University** Cambridge · United States 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/harvard-university/) · [🎓**Renmin University of China** Beijing · China 2026 · 3 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/renmin-university-of-china/) · [🎓**Massachusetts Institute of Technology** Cambridge · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/massachusetts-institute-of-technology/) · [🎓**Michigan State University** East Lansing · United States 2026 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/michigan-state-university/) · [🎓**University of Waterloo** Waterloo · Canada 2019–2023 · 13 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/university-of-waterloo/) 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).[Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/computer-vision-and-pattern-recognition/) · [Artificial Intelligence · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Language and Linguistics · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 1 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Reasoning · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/reasoning/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nils-lukas/year/2026/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Forest Before Trees: Latent Superposition for Efficient Visual Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-forest-before-trees-latent-superposition/)** *(2026 · 3 citations)* Chain-of-Thought helps vision-language models reason step by step. However, spelling out rationales as discrete text loses much of the continuous visual signal. Existing latent-reasoning methods avoid text but still train each hidden state to predict one exact next token, which pushes the model to commit to specific… 2. **[SD-E2: Semantic Exploration for Reasoning Under Token Budgets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mishra-2026-sd-e2-semantic-exploration-reasoning/)** *(2026)* Small language models have a hard time with multi-step reasoning when token budgets are tight. They need to try different solution approaches, but sampling many traces is costly. Standard RL rewards such as GRPO also cannot tell a new strategy apart from a reworded old one. The authors propose SD-E2, an RL framework… ## 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. **[Analyzing Leakage of Personally Identifiable Information in Language Models ↗](https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.00539) arXiv:2302.00539 · no summary yet**Nils Lukas et al.*2023 · 252 citations* 2. **[Forest Before Trees: Latent Superposition for Efficient Visual Reasoning](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/wang-2026-forest-before-trees-latent-superposition/) [Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/)**Yubo Wang, Juntian Zhang, Yichen Wu, et al.*2026 · 3 citations* 3. **[SD-E2: Semantic Exploration for Reasoning Under Token Budgets](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/mishra-2026-sd-e2-semantic-exploration-reasoning/) [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/)**Kshitij Mishra, Nils Lukas, Salem Lahlou*2026* ## Co-authors here 6 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Juntian Zhang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/juntian-zhang/) - [Kshitij Mishra](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kshitij-mishra/) - [Salem Lahlou](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/salem-lahlou/) - [Yankai Lin](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yankai-lin/) - [Yubo Wang](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yubo-wang/) - [Yuhan Liu](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yuhan-liu/) ## 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 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/acl/2026/) - [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/): [Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/findings/2026/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 101 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [31 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nils-lukas/cited-by/). Updated 1 November 2026