3 papers
cs.CL2025
Second Language (Arabic) Acquisition of LLMs via Progressive Vocabulary Expansion
Jianqing Zhu, Huang Huang, Zhihang Lin +18
This paper addresses the critical need for democratizing large language models (LLM) in the Arab world, a region that has seen slower progress in developing models comparable to st…
cs.CL2025
BALSAM: A Platform for Benchmarking Arabic Large Language Models
Rawan Al-Matham, Kareem Darwish, Raghad Al-Rasheed +40
The impressive advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) in English has not been matched across all languages. In particular, LLM performance in Arabic lags behind, due to data s…
cs.CL2025
Commonsense Reasoning in Arab Culture
Abdelrahman Sadallah, Junior Cedric Tonga, Khalid Almubarak +7
Despite progress in Arabic large language models, such as Jais and AceGPT, their evaluation on commonsense reasoning has largely relied on machine-translated datasets, which lack c…