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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…
UnWEIRDing Peer Review in Human Computer Interaction
Hellina Hailu Nigatu, Farhana Shahid, Vishal Sharma +3
Peer review determines which scholarship is legitimized; however, review biases often disadvantage scholarship that diverges from the norm. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) lacks a…
AfriHate: A Multilingual Collection of Hate Speech and Abusive Language Datasets for African Languages
Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, Idris Abdulmumin, Abinew Ali Ayele +24
Hate speech and abusive language are global phenomena that need socio-cultural background knowledge to be understood, identified, and moderated. However, in many regions of the Glo…
The Case for Globalizing Fairness: A Mixed Methods Study on Colonialism, AI, and Health in Africa
Mercy Asiedu, Awa Dieng, Iskandar Haykel +7
With growing application of machine learning (ML) technologies in healthcare, there have been calls for developing techniques to understand and mitigate biases these systems may ex…
The State of Computer Vision Research in Africa
Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo, Ashery Mbilinyi, Lukman Ismaila +16
Despite significant efforts to democratize artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision which is a sub-field of AI, still lags in Africa. A significant factor to this, is the limi…
Towards a Better Understanding of the Computer Vision Research Community in Africa
Abdul-Hakeem Omotayo, Mai Gamal, Eman Ehab +11
Computer vision is a broad field of study that encompasses different tasks (e.g., object detection). Although computer vision is relevant to the African communities in various appl…
Globalizing Fairness Attributes in Machine Learning: A Case Study on Health in Africa
Mercy Nyamewaa Asiedu, Awa Dieng, Abigail Oppong +3
With growing machine learning (ML) applications in healthcare, there have been calls for fairness in ML to understand and mitigate ethical concerns these systems may pose. Fairness…
AfroLM: A Self-Active Learning-based Multilingual Pretrained Language Model for 23 African Languages
Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Oreen Yousuf +5
In recent years, multilingual pre-trained language models have gained prominence due to their remarkable performance on numerous downstream Natural Language Processing tasks (NLP).…