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Saied Alshahrani

2 accepted papers

2025

Second Language (Arabic) Acquisition of LLMs via Progressive Vocabulary Expansion

ACL 2025long

This paper addresses the critical need for democratizing large language models (LLM) in the Arab world, a region that has seen slower progress in developing models comparable to state-of-the-art offerings like GPT-4 or GPT-3.5, due to a predominant focus on mainstream languages (e.g., English and Ch…

2024

CIDAR: Culturally Relevant Instruction Dataset For Arabic

ACL 2024findings

Instruction tuning has emerged as a prominent methodology for teaching Large Language Models (LLMs) to follow instructions. However, current instruction datasets predominantly cater to English or are derived from English-dominated LLMs, leading to inherent biases toward Western culture. This bias ne…