3 papers
cs.AI2026
Einstein World Models
Munachiso Samuel Nwadike, Zangir Iklassov, Ali Mekky +2
Does intelligence require the ability to reason about phenomena beyond direct experience? It is natural to suspect that some complex thought cannot be captured through language alo…
cs.CL2026
Curriculum Learning and Pseudo-Labeling Improve the Generalization of Multi-Label Arabic Dialect Identification Models
Ali Mekky, Mohamed El Zeftawy, Lara Hassan +2
Being modeled as a single-label classification task for a long time, recent work has argued that Arabic Dialect Identification (ADI) should be framed as a multi-label classificatio…
cs.CL2025
HALF: Harm-Aware LLM Fairness Evaluation Aligned with Deployment
Ali Mekky, Omar El Herraoui, Preslav Nakov +1
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed across high-impact domains, from clinical decision support and legal analysis to hiring and education, making fairness and bi…