3 papers
cs.CR2026
A Hybrid, Multi-Layered Pipeline for Phishing and Threat Classification: Independently Validated URL and NLP Engines with a Calibrated Multi-Channel Fusion Stage
Saifelden M. Ismail, Aser O. Ibrahim, Omar A. Mahmoud
Phishing is a multi-modal threat. We present a hybrid pipeline that scores each modality with its own engine and fuses the results. Three engines are built, deployed, and independe…
cs.CL2025
The Unintended Trade-off of AI Alignment:Balancing Hallucination Mitigation and Safety in LLMs
Omar Mahmoud, Ali Khalil, Buddhika Laknath Semage +2
Hallucination in large language models (LLMs) has been widely studied in recent years, with progress in both detection and mitigation aimed at improving truthfulness. Yet, a critic…
cs.CL2025
Improving Multilingual Language Models by Aligning Representations through Steering
Omar Mahmoud, Buddhika Laknath Semage, Thommen George Karimpanal +1
This paper investigates how Large Language Models (LLMs) represent non-English tokens -- a question that remains underexplored despite recent progress. We propose a lightweight int…