--- title: "Ruben Harle — author profile and papers — Elamur Research" description: "Ruben Harle, Technische Universität Darmstadt: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2026), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruben-harle/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruben-harle/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Ruben Harle # Ruben Harle Ruben Harle 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/), [Sebastian Sztwiertnia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-sztwiertnia/). 2 papers in our library · 2026 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5137744263) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5137744263) · [4 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5137744263) · [1 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5137744263&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruben-harle/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 2 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruben-harle/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10985](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/110/#star-10985) 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=Ruben+Harle) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Ruben+Harle) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Ruben+Harle) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Ruben+Harle) ## Affiliations [🎓**Technische Universität Darmstadt** Darmstadt · Germany 2025–2026 · 4 papers*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/technische-universitat-darmstadt/) 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 · 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/) · [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.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2026** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruben-harle/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. **[KletterMix: Climbing Toward High-Quality German Pretraining Data - The Full Report](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/kraus-2026-klettermix-climbing-toward-high-quality/)** *(2026 · 1 citation)* Open German pretraining data still trails English. Native German collections are usually smaller, noisier, less documented, and seldom tested by actually training models on them. The authors take a different route: instead of crawling more German web text, they machine-translate a strong English mixture, ClimbMix… ## Co-authors here 10 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Abbas Goher Khan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/abbas-goher-khan/) ×2 - [Maurice Kraus](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maurice-kraus/) ×2 - [Sebastian Sztwiertnia](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sebastian-sztwiertnia/) ×2 - [Kristian Kersting](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/kristian-kersting/) - [Maximilian Idahl](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/maximilian-idahl/) - [Mehdi Ali](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mehdi-ali/) - [Michael Fromm](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/michael-fromm/) - [Nicolas Flores-Herr](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nicolas-flores-herr/) - [Richard Rutmann](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/richard-rutmann/) - [Timm Heine Ruland](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/timm-heine-ruland/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 2 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [1 citing paper with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/ruben-harle/cited-by/). Updated 31 October 2026