3 papers
cs.CL2025
AraLingBench A Human-Annotated Benchmark for Evaluating Arabic Linguistic Capabilities of Large Language Models
Mohammad Zbeeb, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Sina Mukalled +5
We present AraLingBench: a fully human annotated benchmark for evaluating the Arabic linguistic competence of large language models (LLMs). The benchmark spans five core categories…
cs.CL2025
Hala Technical Report: Building Arabic-Centric Instruction & Translation Models at Scale
Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Mohammad Zbeeb, Bernard Ghanem
We present Hala, a family of Arabic-centric instruction and translation models built with our translate-and-tune pipeline. We first compress a strong AREN teacher…
cs.CL2025
Reasoning Vectors: Transferring Chain-of-Thought Capabilities via Task Arithmetic
Mohammad Zbeeb, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud, Bernard Ghanem
Large language models often require costly optimization, such as reinforcement learning, to master complex reasoning tasks. This work demonstrates that reasoning ability, once lear…