collaborators

7 papers

cs.CL2026

Fanar 2.0: Arabic Generative AI Stack

FANAR TEAM, Ummar Abbas, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad +34

We present Fanar 2.0, the second generation of Qatar's Arabic-centric Generative AI platform. Sovereignty is a first-class design principle: every component, from data pipelines to…

cs.AI2026

Do I Really Know? Learning Factual Self-Verification for Hallucination Reduction

Enes Altinisik, Masoomali Fatehkia, Fatih Deniz +4

Factual hallucination remains a central challenge for large language models (LLMs). Existing mitigation approaches primarily rely on either external post-hoc verification or mappin…

cs.CL2026

PAM: Training Policy-Aligned Moderation Filters at Scale

Masoomali Fatehkia, Enes Altinisik, Mohamed Osman +1

Large language models (LLMs) remain vulnerable to misalignment and jailbreaks, making external safeguards like moderation filters essential, yet existing filters often focus narrow…

cs.CL2025

FanarGuard: A Culturally-Aware Moderation Filter for Arabic Language Models

Masoomali Fatehkia, Enes Altinisik, Husrev Taha Sencar

Content moderation filters are a critical safeguard against alignment failures in language models. Yet most existing filters focus narrowly on general safety and overlook cultural…

cs.CL2025

Tool Calling for Arabic LLMs: Data Strategies and Instruction Tuning

Asim Ersoy, Enes Altinisik, Husrev Taha Sencar +1

Tool calling is a critical capability that allows Large Language Models (LLMs) to interact with external systems, significantly expanding their utility. However, research and resou…

cs.LG2025

Explaining the role of Intrinsic Dimensionality in Adversarial Training

Enes Altinisik, Safa Messaoud, Husrev Taha Sencar +2

Adversarial Training (AT) impacts different architectures in distinct ways: vision models gain robustness but face reduced generalization, encoder-based models exhibit limited robu…