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The Illusion of Cross-Lingual Safety in Low-Resource Languages
Abigail Oppong, P Sam Sahil, Tadesse Destaw Belay +12
Safety alignment in large language models (LLMs) is largely developed in English, assuming these safeguards generalize across multilingual settings. However, this assumption remain…
LLM Safety Alignment in Low-Resource Languages: A Systematic Literature Review
Valdini Douglace Lemofouet, Blessing Ngozi Uzor, Paula Chikaodinaka Anyanwu +9
Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved substantial progress in safety alignment, yet their safety guarantees remain significantly weaker in low-resource and multilingual settin…
The Persona Paradox: Medical Personas as Behavioral Priors in Clinical Language Models
Tassallah Abdullahi, Shrestha Ghosh, Hamish S Fraser +5
Persona conditioning can be viewed as a behavioral prior for large language models (LLMs) and is often assumed to confer expertise and improve safety in a monotonic manner. However…
UbuntuGuard: A Culturally-Grounded Policy Benchmark for Equitable AI Safety in African Languages
Tassallah Abdullahi, Macton Mgonzo, Mardiyyah Oduwole +4
Current guardian models are predominantly Western-centric and optimized for high-resource languages, leaving low-resource African languages vulnerable to evolving harms, cross-ling…
Benchmarking is Broken -- Don't Let AI be its Own Judge
Zerui Cheng, Stella Wohnig, Ruchika Gupta +13
The meteoric rise of AI, with its rapidly expanding market capitalization, presents both transformative opportunities and critical challenges. Chief among these is the urgent need…
Afrispeech-Dialog: A Benchmark Dataset for Spontaneous English Conversations in Healthcare and Beyond
Mardhiyah Sanni, Tassallah Abdullahi, Devendra D. Kayande +9
Speech technologies are transforming interactions across various sectors, from healthcare to call centers and robots, yet their performance on African-accented conversations remain…
K-Paths: Reasoning over Graph Paths for Drug Repurposing and Drug Interaction Prediction
Tassallah Abdullahi, Ioanna Gemou, Nihal V. Nayak +4
Biomedical knowledge graphs (KGs) encode rich, structured information critical for drug discovery tasks, but extracting meaningful insights from large-scale KGs remains challenging…
AfriMed-QA: A Pan-African, Multi-Specialty, Medical Question-Answering Benchmark Dataset
Tobi Olatunji, Charles Nimo, Abraham Owodunni +23
Recent advancements in large language model(LLM) performance on medical multiple choice question (MCQ) benchmarks have stimulated interest from healthcare providers and patients gl…
Retrieval Augmented Zero-Shot Text Classification
Tassallah Abdullahi, Ritambhara Singh, Carsten Eickhoff
Zero-shot text learning enables text classifiers to handle unseen classes efficiently, alleviating the need for task-specific training data. A simple approach often relies on compa…