11 papers
Can Dialects Be Steered Like Languages? Sparse Neurons and Distributed Directions in Arabic LLMs
Kareem Elozeiri, Mervat Abassy, Omar Kallas +4
A key challenge in Arabic NLP is the scarcity of dialectal data relative to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), causing LLMs to overproduce MSA and struggle with dialectally accurate gen…
OASIS: A Multilingual and Multimodal Dataset for Culturally Grounded Spoken Visual QA
Firoj Alam, Ali Ezzat Shahroor, Md. Arid Hasan +8
Large-scale multimodal models achieve strong results on tasks like Visual Question Answering (VQA), but they are often limited when queries require cultural and visual information,…
Once Correct, Still Wrong: Counterfactual Hallucination in Multilingual Vision-Language Models
Basel Mousi, Fahim Dalvi, Shammur Chowdhury +2
Vision-language models (VLMs) can achieve high accuracy while still accepting culturally plausible but visually incorrect interpretations. Existing hallucination benchmarks rarely…
Fanar 2.0: Arabic Generative AI Stack
FANAR TEAM, Ummar Abbas, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad +34
We present Fanar 2.0, the second generation of Qatar's Arabic-centric Generative AI platform. Sovereignty is a first-class design principle: every component, from data pipelines to…
An Exploration of Knowledge Editing for Arabic
Basel Mousi, Nadir Durrani, Fahim Dalvi
While Knowledge Editing (KE) has been widely explored in English, its behavior in morphologically rich languages like Arabic remains underexamined. In this work, we present the fir…
Editing Across Languages: A Survey of Multilingual Knowledge Editing
Nadir Durrani, Basel Mousi, Fahim Dalvi
While Knowledge Editing has been extensively studied in monolingual settings, it remains underexplored in multilingual contexts. This survey systematizes recent research on Multili…