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Publications (9)

cs.NI2024

Towards a Transformer-Based Pre-trained Model for IoT Traffic Classification

Bruna Bazaluk, Mosab Hamdan, Mustafa Ghaleb +3

The classification of IoT traffic is important to improve the efficiency and security of IoT-based networks. As the state-of-the-art classification methods are based on Deep Learni…

cs.CL2021

Masader: Metadata Sourcing for Arabic Text and Speech Data Resources

Zaid Alyafeai, Maraim Masoud, Mustafa Ghaleb +1

The NLP pipeline has evolved dramatically in the last few years. The first step in the pipeline is to find suitable annotated datasets to evaluate the tasks we are trying to solve.…

cs.CL2024

CIDAR: Culturally Relevant Instruction Dataset For Arabic

Zaid Alyafeai, Khalid Almubarak, Ahmed Ashraf +9

Instruction tuning has emerged as a prominent methodology for teaching Large Language Models (LLMs) to follow instructions. However, current instruction datasets predominantly cate…

cs.CL2023

BLOOM: A 176B-Parameter Open-Access Multilingual Language Model

BigScience Workshop, :, Teven Le Scao +391

Large language models (LLMs) have been shown to be able to perform new tasks based on a few demonstrations or natural language instructions. While these capabilities have led to wi…

cs.CL2021

Evaluating Various Tokenizers for Arabic Text Classification

Zaid Alyafeai, Maged S. Al-shaibani, Mustafa Ghaleb +1

The first step in any NLP pipeline is to split the text into individual tokens. The most obvious and straightforward approach is to use words as tokens. However, given a large text…

cs.CL2022

Masader Plus: A New Interface for Exploring +500 Arabic NLP Datasets

Yousef Altaher, Ali Fadel, Mazen Alotaibi +18

Masader (Alyafeai et al., 2021) created a metadata structure to be used for cataloguing Arabic NLP datasets. However, developing an easy way to explore such a catalogue is a challe…

cs.LG2025

Federated Testing (FedTest): A New Scheme to Enhance Convergence and Mitigate Adversarial Attacks in Federating Learning

Mustafa Ghaleb, Mohanad Obeed, Muhamad Felemban +2

Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a significant paradigm for training machine learning models. This is due to its data-privacy-preserving property and its efficient exploitati…

cs.CL2021

Calliar: An Online Handwritten Dataset for Arabic Calligraphy

Zaid Alyafeai, Maged S. Al-shaibani, Mustafa Ghaleb +1

Calligraphy is an essential part of the Arabic heritage and culture. It has been used in the past for the decoration of houses and mosques. Usually, such calligraphy is designed ma…

cs.CR2023

File Fragment Classification using Light-Weight Convolutional Neural Networks

Mustafa Ghaleb, Kunwar Saaim, Muhamad Felemban +2

In digital forensics, file fragment classification is an important step toward completing file carving process. There exist several techniques to identify the type of file fragment…