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Ahmed Elhady

3 accepted papers

2025

Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models under Continued Pre-training for Language Adaptation

ACL 2025long

Continued pretraining (CPT) is a popular approach to adapt existing large language models (LLMs) to new languages. When doing so, it is common practice to include a portion of English data in the mixture, but its role has not been carefully studied to date. In this work, we show that including Engli…

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2025

WiCkeD: A Simple Method to Make Multiple Choice Benchmarks More Challenging

ACL 2025short

We introduce WiCkeD, a simple method to increase the complexity of existing multiple-choice benchmarks by randomly replacing a choice with “None of the above”, a method often used in educational tests. We show that WiCkeD can be automatically applied to any existing benchmark, making it more challen…

2024

Improving Factuality in Clinical Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization by Guided Continued Pre-training

NAACL 2024short

Factual accuracy is an important property of neural abstractive summarization models, especially in fact-critical domains such as the clinical literature. In this work, we introduce a guided continued pre-training stage for encoder-decoder models that improves their understanding of the factual attr…

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