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Amal Zouaq

7 accepted papers

2025

Combining Domain and Alignment Vectors Provides Better Knowledge-Safety Trade-offs in LLMs

ACL 2025short

There is a growing interest in training domain-expert LLMs that excel in specific technical fields compared to their general-purpose instruction-tuned counterparts. However, these expert models are not either explicitly trained to be safe, or experience a loss in their safety abilities in the proces…

2025

GeoCoder: Solving Geometry Problems by Generating Modular Code through Vision-Language Models

NAACL 2025findings

Geometry problem-solving demands advanced reasoning abilities to process multimodal inputs and employ mathematical knowledge effectively. Vision-language models (VLMs) have made significant progress in various multimodal tasks. Yet, they still struggle with geometry problems and are significantly li…

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2024

A Deep Dive into the Trade-Offs of Parameter-Efficient Preference Alignment Techniques

ACL 2024long

Large language models are first pre-trained on trillions of tokens and then instruction-tuned or aligned to specific preferences. While pre-training remains out of reach for most researchers due to the compute required, fine-tuning has become affordable thanks to parameter-efficient methods such as…

2024

TagDebias: Entity and Concept Tagging for Social Bias Mitigation in Pretrained Language Models

NAACL 2024findings

Pre-trained language models (PLMs) play a crucial role in various applications, including sensitive domains such as the hiring process. However, extensive research has unveiled that these models tend to replicate social biases present in their pre-training data, raising ethical concerns. In this stu…

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2022

Detecting Languages Unintelligible to Multilingual Models through Local Structure Probes

EMNLP 2022finding

Providing better language tools for low-resource and endangered languages is imperative for equitable growth.Recent progress with massively multilingual pretrained models has proven surprisingly effective at performing zero-shot transfer to a wide variety of languages.However, this transfer is not u…

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2022

Local Structure Matters Most: Perturbation Study in NLU

ACL 2022findings

Recent research analyzing the sensitivity of natural language understanding models to word-order perturbations has shown that neural models are surprisingly insensitive to the order of words. In this paper, we investigate this phenomenon by developing order-altering perturbations on the order of wor…

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