activity
20242026
collaborators

8 papers

cs.CL2026

Shieldstral

Antonia Calvi, Avinash Sooriyarachchi, Giada Pistilli +273

We introduce Shieldstral, a 3B-parameter policy-adaptive multimodal safety classifier that matches or outperforms models nearly 7 its size on text safety benchmarks and set…

cs.CL2026

Jais 2: A Family of Arabic-Centric Open Large Language Models

Mohamed Anwar, Abed Alhakim Freihat, George Ibrahim +57

Jais 2 is a family of Arabic-centric large language models developed jointly by MBZUAI, Cerebras, and Inception, designed to advance Arabic-centric language modeling, with strong p…

cs.AI2026

Voxtral TTS

Mistral-AI, :, Alexander H. Liu +186

We introduce Voxtral TTS, an expressive multilingual text-to-speech model that generates natural speech from as little as 3 seconds of reference audio. Voxtral TTS adopts a hybrid…

cs.AI2026

YaPO: Learnable Sparse Activation Steering Vectors for Domain Adaptation

Abdelaziz Bounhar, Rania Hossam Elmohamady Elbadry, Hadi Abdine +3

Steering Large Language Models (LLMs) through activation interventions has emerged as a lightweight alternative to fine-tuning for alignment and personalization. Recent work on Bi-…

cs.IT2026

Distributed Detection under Stringent Resource Constraints

Abdelaziz Bounhar, Mireille Sarkiss, Michèle Wigger

This paper identifies the Stein-exponent of distributed detection when the sensor communicates to the decision center over a discrete memoryless channel (DMC) subject to one of thr…

cs.LG2025

Shorter but not Worse: Frugal Reasoning via Easy Samples as Length Regularizers in Math RLVR

Abdelaziz Bounhar, Hadi Abdine, Evan Dufraisse +5

Large language models (LLMs) trained for step-by-step reasoning often become excessively verbose, raising inference cost. Standard Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (R…