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AfriqueLLM: How Data Mixing and Model Architecture Impact Continued Pre-training for African Languages
Hao Yu, Tianyi Xu, Michael A. Hedderich +3
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly multilingual, yet open models continue to underperform relative to proprietary systems, with the gap most pronounced for African langu…
TukaBench: A Culturally Grounded Jailbreak Benchmark for African Languages
Victor Akinode, Senyu Li, Wassim Hamidouche +3
Safety evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) remains heavily English-centric, leaving Low-Resource Languages (LRLs), particularly African ones, critically underexplored. We in…
BYOL: Bring Your Own Language Into LLMs
Syed Waqas Zamir, Wassim Hamidouche, Boulbaba Ben Amor +3
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit strong multilingual capabilities, yet remain fundamentally constrained by the severe imbalance in global language resources. While over 7,000 l…
AI Diffusion in Low Resource Language Countries
Amit Misra, Syed Waqas Zamir, Wassim Hamidouche +2
Artificial intelligence (AI) is diffusing globally at unprecedented speed, but adoption remains uneven. Frontier Large Language Models (LLMs) are known to perform poorly on low-res…
Generative AI for Immersive Communication: The Next Frontier in Internet-of-Senses Through 6G
Nassim Sehad, Lina Bariah, Wassim Hamidouche +3
Over the past two decades, the Internet-of-Things (IoT) has become a transformative concept, and as we approach 2030, a new paradigm known as the Internet of Senses (IoS) is emergi…