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6 papers

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

Swan and ArabicMTEB: Dialect-Aware, Arabic-Centric, Cross-Lingual, and Cross-Cultural Embedding Models and Benchmarks

Gagan Bhatia, El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Abdellah El Mekki +2

We introduce {\bf Swan}, a family of embedding models centred around the Arabic language, addressing both small-scale and large-scale use cases. Swan includes two variants: Swan-Sm…

cs.CL2024

Casablanca: Data and Models for Multidialectal Arabic Speech Recognition

Bashar Talafha, Karima Kadaoui, Samar Mohamed Magdy +24

In spite of the recent progress in speech processing, the majority of world languages and dialects remain uncovered. This situation only furthers an already wide technological divi…

cs.CV2024

Qalam : A Multimodal LLM for Arabic Optical Character and Handwriting Recognition

Gagan Bhatia, El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Fakhraddin Alwajih +1

Arabic Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Handwriting Recognition (HWR) pose unique challenges due to the cursive and context-sensitive nature of the Arabic script. This study…

cs.CL2024

FinTral: A Family of GPT-4 Level Multimodal Financial Large Language Models

Gagan Bhatia, El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Hasan Cavusoglu +1

We introduce FinTral, a suite of state-of-the-art multimodal large language models (LLMs) built upon the Mistral-7b model and tailored for financial analysis. FinTral integrates te…

cs.CL2024

Peacock: A Family of Arabic Multimodal Large Language Models and Benchmarks

Fakhraddin Alwajih, El Moatez Billah Nagoudi, Gagan Bhatia +2

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have proven effective in a wide range of tasks requiring complex reasoning and linguistic comprehension. However, due to a lack of high-qua…