4 papers
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…
Code-Switching in End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition: A Systematic Literature Review
Maha Tufail Agro, Atharva Kulkarni, Karima Kadaoui +2
Motivated by a growing research interest into automatic speech recognition (ASR), and the growing body of work for languages in which code-switching (CS) often occurs, we present a…
uDistil-Whisper: Label-Free Data Filtering for Knowledge Distillation in Low-Data Regimes
Abdul Waheed, Karima Kadaoui, Bhiksha Raj +1
Recent work on distilling Whisper's knowledge into small models using pseudo-labels shows promising performance while reducing the size by up to 50%. This results in small, efficie…
JEEM: Vision-Language Understanding in Four Arabic Dialects
Karima Kadaoui, Hanin Atwany, Hamdan Al-Ali +7
We introduce JEEM, a benchmark designed to evaluate Vision-Language Models (VLMs) on visual understanding across four Arabic-speaking countries: Jordan, The Emirates, Egypt, and Mo…