3 papers
cs.LG2026
Curriculum Learning for LLM Pretraining: An Analysis of Learning Dynamics
Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri
Curriculum learning changes the order of pretraining data, but it remains unclear how ordering changes the learning dynamics. We pretrain models from 14M to 1B parameters for 300B…
cs.CL2026
Linguistic Blind Spots in Clinical Decision Extraction
Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri
Extracting medical decisions from clinical notes is a key step for clinical decision support and patient-facing care summaries. We study how the linguistic characteristics of clini…
cs.CL2025
Linguistically-Controlled Paraphrase Generation
Mohamed Elgaar, Hadi Amiri
Controlled paraphrase generation produces paraphrases that preserve meaning while allowing precise control over linguistic attributes of the output. We introduce LingConv, an encod…