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6 papers

cs.CL2026

Single-Pass Uncertainty Heads for Claim-Level Hallucination Detection in Persian Medical Language Models

Mehrdad Ghassabi, Pedram Rostami, Hamidreza Baradaran Kashani +2

Hallucination detection is particularly important for medical language models, but repeated-sampling approaches are computationally expensive. A faster alternative is a single-pass…

cs.CL2026

Gaokerena: A Small Persian Medical Language Model Family

Mehrdad Ghassabi, Hamidreza Baradaran Kashani, Pedram Rostami +5

Persian medical NLP is limited by scarce domain-specific resources and insufficient characterization of their coverage, quality, and limitations. We present Gaokerena, a suite of P…

cs.CL2026

When Detection Does Not Guarantee Resistance: Reasoning and Poisoned Context in RAG

Mehrdad Ghassabi, Audrina Ebrahimi, Sadra Hakim +3

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) exposes large language models to knowledge-poisoning attacks, where misinformation injected into retrieved documents can influence model output…

cs.CL2026

Backtranslation Augmented Direct Preference Optimization for Neural Machine Translation

Mehrdad Ghassabi, Spehr Rajabi, Hamidreza Baradaran Kashani +3

Contemporary neural machine translation (NMT) systems are almost exclusively built by training on supervised parallel data. Despite the tremendous progress achieved, these systems…

cs.CL2025

Enhancing Reasoning Skills in Small Persian Medical Language Models Can Outperform Large-Scale Data Training

Mehrdad Ghassabi, Sadra Hakim, Hamidreza Baradaran Kashani +1

Enhancing reasoning capabilities in small language models is critical for specialized applications such as medical question answering, particularly in underrepresented languages li…

cs.CL2025

Leveraging Online Data to Enhance Medical Knowledge in a Small Persian Language Model

Mehrdad Ghassabi, Pedram Rostami, Hamidreza Baradaran Kashani +3

The rapid advancement of language models has demonstrated the potential of artificial intelligence in the healthcare industry. However, small language models struggle with speciali…