4 papers
RRFC: Recursive Refinement via Feedback Conditioning for Iterative Image-to-Image Generation
Kareem Hassani, Chaymaa Abbas, Hadi Al Mubasher +1
Conditional image-to-image generators are single-shot: they map input features to an output in one forward pass and treat it as final, with no opportunity to improve on it. Althoug…
THESIS-MoE: Trainable Hierarchical Extraction and SteerIng of Sycophancy in Mixture-of-Experts
Kareem Hassani, Chaymaa Abbas, Lama Mawlawi +1
Sycophancy, the tendency of a language model to change its answer to match a user's stated belief, is a common alignment failure. Existing activation steering methods typically app…
Obscuring Data Contamination Through Translation: Evidence from Arabic Corpora
Chaymaa Abbas, Nour Shamaa, Nour Shammaa +1
Data contamination can invalidate benchmark evaluation when a model benefits from memorized evaluation content rather than genuine generalization. Yet contamination is difficult to…
Can Small-Scale Data Poisoning Exacerbate Dialect-Linked Biases in Large Language Models?
Chaymaa Abbas, Mariette Awad, Razane Tajeddine
Style-conditioned data poisoning is identified as a covert vector for amplifying sociolinguistic bias in large language models. Using small poisoned budgets that pair dialectal pro…