3 papers
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.IR2026
PETRA: Transforming Web Text for Petroleum-Engineering Domain Adaptation
Kirill Dubovikov, Omar El Mansouri, Hachem Madmoun +12
Petroleum-engineering search exposes a supervision gap for strong general retrievers: relevant evidence exists in public web text, but domain relevance labels are scarce. To addres…
cs.CL2025
Sherkala-Chat: Building a State-of-the-Art LLM for Kazakh in a Moderately Resourced Setting
Fajri Koto, Rituraj Joshi, Nurdaulet Mukhituly +31
Llama-3.1-Sherkala-8B-Chat, or Sherkala-Chat (8B) for short, is a state-of-the-art instruction-tuned open generative large language model (LLM) designed for Kazakh. Sherkala-Chat (…