3 papers
cs.CL2025
Pearl: A Multimodal Culturally-Aware Arabic Instruction Dataset
Fakhraddin Alwajih, Samar M. Magdy, Abdellah El Mekki +34
Mainstream large vision-language models (LVLMs) inherently encode cultural biases, highlighting the need for diverse multimodal datasets. To address this gap, we introduce PEARL, a…
cs.CL2025
Palm: A Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse Dataset for Arabic LLMs
Fakhraddin Alwajih, Abdellah El Mekki, Samar Mohamed Magdy +41
As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into daily life, ensuring their cultural sensitivity and inclusivity is paramount. We introduce our dataset, a year-l…
cs.CL2025
Jawaher: A Multidialectal Dataset of Arabic Proverbs for LLM Benchmarking
Samar M. Magdy, Sang Yun Kwon, Fakhraddin Alwajih +3
Recent advancements in instruction fine-tuning, alignment methods such as reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), and optimization techniques like direct preference opti…