18 papers
Position: AI Governance Needs ISO-like Interoperability Protocols, Not Just Laws
Azmine Toushik Wasi, Mst Rafia Islam, Mahfuz Ahmed Anik +3
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems become deeply integrated into critical global infrastructure, the urgency for robust governance frameworks has intensified. However, current…
CommonLID: Re-evaluating State-of-the-Art Language Identification Performance on Web Data
Pedro Ortiz Suarez, Laurie Burchell, Catherine Arnett +94
Language identification (LID) is a fundamental step in curating multilingual corpora. However, LID models still perform poorly for many languages, especially on the noisy and heter…
TimeSpot: Benchmarking Geo-Temporal Understanding in Vision-Language Models in Real-World Settings
Azmine Toushik Wasi, Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy, Koushik Ahamed Tonmoy +5
Geo-temporal understanding, the ability to infer location, time, and contextual properties from visual input alone, underpins applications such as disaster management, traffic plan…
SpatiaLab: Can Vision-Language Models Perform Spatial Reasoning in the Wild?
Azmine Toushik Wasi, Wahid Faisal, Abdur Rahman +12
Spatial reasoning is a fundamental aspect of human cognition, yet it remains a major challenge for contemporary vision-language models (VLMs). Prior work largely relied on syntheti…
BengaliMoralBench: A Benchmark for Auditing Moral Reasoning in Large Language Models within Bengali Language and Culture
Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy, Azmine Toushik Wasi, Koushik Ahamed Tonmoy +2
As multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) gain traction across South Asia, their alignment with local ethical norms, particularly for Bengali, spoken by over 285 million people…
Mina: A Multilingual LLM-Powered Legal Assistant Agent for Bangladesh for Empowering Access to Justice
Azmine Toushik Wasi, Wahid Faisal, Mst Rafia Islam +1
Bangladesh's low-income population faces major barriers to affordable legal advice due to complex legal language, procedural opacity, and high costs. Existing AI legal assistants l…