3 papers
cs.LG2026
Mechanistic Evidence for Preserved-but-Misaligned Representations in Non-IID FedAvg
Muhammad Haseeb, Salaar Masood, Muhammad Abdullah Sohail +2
The paper investigates why federated averaging (FedAvg) performs poorly on non‑IID client data, finding that client models retain useful internal representations but these become m…
cs.HC2025
Towards Misinformation Resilience in Pakistan: A Participatory Study with Low-Socioeconomic Status Adults
Muhammad Abdullah Sohail, Amna Hassan, Shaheer Hammad +2
Digital misinformation disproportionately affects low-socioeconomic status (SES) populations. While interventions for the Global South exist, they often report limited success, par…
cs.LG2024
Deciphering the Underserved: Benchmarking LLM OCR for Low-Resource Scripts
Muhammad Abdullah Sohail, Salaar Masood, Hamza Iqbal
This study investigates the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs), particularly GPT-4o, for Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in low-resource scripts such as Urdu, Albanian,…