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Sample-Efficient Language Modeling with Linear Attention and Lightweight Enhancements

Patrick Haller, Jonas Golde, Alan Akbik

BLiSS: Evaluating Bilingual Learner Competence in Second Language Small Language Models

Yuan Gao, Suchir Salhan, Andrew Caines, Paula Buttery, Weiwei Sun

Exploring smaller batch sizes for a high-performing BabyLM model architecture

Sharid Loáiciga, Eleni Fysikoudi, Asad B. Sayeed

BitMar: Low-Bit Multimodal Fusion with Episodic Memory for Edge Devices

Euhid Aman, Esteban Carlin, Hsing-Kuo Kenneth Pao, Giovanni Beltrame, Ghaluh Indah Permata Sari

What is the Best Sequence Length for BabyLM?

Suchir Salhan, Richard Diehl Martinez, Zébulon Goriely, Paula Buttery

Design and Analysis of few Million Parameter Transformer-based Language Models trained over a few Million Tokens Dataset

Yen-Che Hsiao, Abhishek Dutta

Large Language Models and Children Have Different Learning Trajectories in Determiner Acquisition

Olivia La Fiandra, Nathalie Fernandez Echeverri, Patrick Shafto, Naomi H. Feldman

FORGETTER with forgetful hyperparameters and recurring sleeps can continue to learn beyond normal overtfitting limits

Yamamoto Rui, Keiji Miura

TafBERTa: Learning Grammatical Rules from Small-Scale Language Acquisition Data in Hebrew

Anita Gelboim, Elior Sulem

Model Merging to Maintain Language-Only Performance in Developmentally Plausible Multimodal Models

Ece Takmaz, Lisa Bylinina, Jakub Dotlacil

Are BabyLMs Deaf to Gricean Maxims? A Pragmatic Evaluation of Sample-efficient Language Models

Raha Askari, Sina Zarrieß, Özge Alaçam, Judith Sieker

Unifying Mixture of Experts and Multi-Head Latent Attention for Efficient Language Models

Sushant Mehta, Raj Dandekar, Rajat Dandekar, Sreedath Panat

Contrastive Decoding for Synthetic Data Generation in Low-Resource Language Modeling

Jannek Ulm, Kevin Du, Vésteinn Snæbjarnarson

Rethinking the Role of Text Complexity in Language Model Pretraining

Dan John Velasco, Matthew Theodore Roque

MarsadLab at TAQEEM 2025: Prompt-Aware Lexicon-Enhanced Transformer for Arabic Automated Essay Scoring

Mabrouka Bessghaier, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Amira Dhouib, Wajdi Zaghouani

Taibah at TAQEEM 2025: Leveraging GPT-4o for Arabic Essay Scoring

Nada Almarwani, Alaa Alharbi, Samah Aloufi

912 at TAQEEM 2025: A Distribution-aware Approach to Arabic Essay Scoring

Trong-Tai Dam Vu, Thìn Đặng Văn

ARxHYOKA at TAQEEM2025: Comparative Approaches to Arabic Essay Trait Scoring

Mohamad Alnajjar, Ahmad Almoustafa, Tomohiro Nishiyama, Shoko Wakamiya, Eiji Aramaki

TAQEEM 2025: Overview of The First Shared Task for Arabic Quality Evaluation of Essays in Multi-dimensions

May Bashendy, Salam Albatarni, Sohaila Eltanbouly, Walid Massoud, Houda Bouamor

Tokenizers United at QIAS-2025: RAG-Enhanced Question Answering for Islamic Studies by Integrating Semantic Retrieval with Generative Reasoning

Mohamed Samy, Mayar Boghdady, Marwan El Adawi, Mohamed Nassar, Ensaf Hussein

Gumball at QIAS 2025: Arabic LLM Automated Reasoning in Islamic Inheritance

Eman Elrefai, Mohamed Lotfy Elrefai, Aml Hassan Esmail

MorAI at QIAS 2025: Collaborative LLM via Voting and Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Solving Complex Inheritance Problems

Jihad R’baiti, Chouaib El Hachimi, Youssef Hmamouche, Amal El Fallah Seghrouchni

SEA-Team at QIAS 2025: Enhancing LLMs for Question Answering in Islamic Texts

Sanaa Alowaidi

CIS-RG at QIAS 2025 Shared Task: Approaches for Enhancing Performance of LLM on Islamic Legal Reasoning and its Mathematical Calculations

Osama Farouk Zaki

CVPD at QIAS 2025 Shared Task: An Efficient Encoder-Based Approach for Islamic Inheritance Reasoning

Salah Eddine Bekhouche, Abdellah Zakaria Sellam, Telli Hichem, Cosimo Distante, Abdenour Hadid

ADAPT–MTU HAI at QIAS2025: Dual-Expert LLM Fine-Tuning and Constrained Decoding for Arabic Islamic Inheritance Reasoning

Shehenaz Hossain, Haithem Afli

Athar at QIAS2025: LLM-based Question Answering Systems for Islamic Inheritance and Classical Islamic Knowledge

Yossra Noureldien, Hassan Suliman, Farah Attallah, Abdelrazig Mohamed, Sara Abdalla

PuxAI at QIAS 2025: Multi-Agent Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Islamic Inheritance and Knowledge Reasoning

Nguyen Xuan Phuc, Thìn Đặng Văn

Transformer Tafsir at QIAS 2025 Shared Task: Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Islamic Knowledge Question Answering

Muhammad Abu Ahmad, Mohamad Ballout, Raia Abu Ahmad, Elia Bruni

QU-NLP at QIAS 2025 Shared Task: A Two-Phase LLM Fine-Tuning and Retrieval-Augmented Generation Approach for Islamic Inheritance Reasoning

Mohammad AL-Smadi

HIAST at QIAS 2025: Retrieval-Augmented LLMs with Top-Hit Web Evidence for Arabic Islamic Reasoning QA

Mohamed Motasim Hamed, Nada Ghneim, Riad Sonbol

N&N at QIAS 2025: Chain-of-Thought Ensembles with Retrieval-Augmented framework for Classical Arabic Islamic

Nourah Alangari, Nouf AlShenaifi

ANLPers at QIAS: CoT for Islamic Inheritance

Serry Sibaee, Mahmoud Reda, Omer Nacar, Yasser Alhabashi, Adel Ammar

SHA at the QIAS Shared Task: LLMs for Arabic Islamic Inheritance Reasoning

Shatha Altammami

NYUAD at QIAS Shared Task: Benchmarking the Legal Reasoning of LLMs in Arabic Islamic Inheritance Cases

Nouar Aldahoul, Yasir Zaki

QIAS 2025: Overview of the Shared Task on Islamic Inheritance Reasoning and Knowledge Assessment

Abdessalam Bouchekif, Samer Rashwani, Emad Soliman Ali Mohamed, Mutaz Alkhatib, Heba Sbahi

Phoenix at Palmx: Exploring Data Augmentation for Arabic Cultural Question Answering

Houdaifa Atou, Issam Ait Yahia, Ismail Berrada

Cultura-Arabica: Probing and Enhancing Arabic Cultural Awareness in Large Language Models via LoRA

Pulkit Chatwal, Santosh Kumar Mishra

AYA at PalmX 2025: Modeling Cultural and Islamic Knowledge in LLMs

Jannatul Tajrin, Bir Ballav Roy, Firoj Alam

Star at PalmX 2025: Arabic Cultural Understanding via Targeted Pretraining and Lightweight Fine-tuning

Eman Elrefai, Esraa Khaled, Alhassan Ehab

MarsadLab at PalmX Shared Task: An LLM Benchmark for Arabic Culture and Islamic Civilization

Md. Rafiul Biswas, Shimaa Ibrahim, Kais Attia, Firoj Alam, Wajdi Zaghouani

CultranAI at PalmX 2025: Data Augmentation for Cultural Knowledge Representation

Hunzalah Hassan Bhatti, Youssef Ahmed, Md Arid Hasan, Firoj Alam

ADAPT–MTU HAI at PalmX 2025: Leveraging Full and Parameter‐Efficient LLM Fine‐Tuning for Arabic Cultural QA

Shehenaz Hossain, Haithem Afli

ISL-NLP at PalmX 2025: Retrieval-Augmented Fine-Tuning for Arabic Cultural Question Answering

Mohamed Gomaa, Noureldin Elmadany

Hamyaria at PalmX2025: Leveraging Large Language Models to Improve Arabic Multiple-Choice Questions in Cultural and Islamic Domains

Walid Al-Dhabyani, Hamzah A. Alsayadi

PalmX 2025: The First Shared Task on Benchmarking LLMs on Arabic and Islamic Culture

Fakhraddin Alwajih, Abdellah El Mekki, Hamdy Mubarak, Majd Hawasly, Abubakr Mohamed

Unicorn at NADI 2025 Subtask 3: GEMM3N-DR: Audio-Text Diacritic Restoration via Fine-tuning Multimodal Arabic LLM

Mohamed Lotfy Elrefai

ELYADATA & LIA at NADI 2025: ASR and ADI Subtasks

Haroun Elleuch, Youssef Saidi, Salima Mdhaffar, Yannick Estève, Fethi Bougares

Abjad AI at NADI 2025: CATT-Whisper: Multimodal Diacritic Restoration Using Text and Speech Representations

Ahmad Ghannam, Naif Alharthi, Faris Alasmary, Kholood Al Tabash, Shouq Sadah

MarsadLab at NADI Shared Task: Arabic Dialect Identification and Speech Recognition using ECAPA-TDNN and Whisper

Md. Rafiul Biswas, Kais Attia, Shimaa Ibrahim, Mabrouka Bessghaier, Wajdi Zaghouani

Saarland-Groningen at NADI 2025 Shared Task: Effective Dialectal Arabic Speech Processing under Data Constraints

Badr M. Abdullah, Yusser Al Ghussin, Zena Al-Khalili, Ömer Tarik Özyilmaz, Matias Valdenegro-Toro

Lahjati at NADI 2025 A ECAPA-WavLM Fusion with Multi-Stage Optimization

Sanad Albawwab, Omar Qawasmeh

Munsit at NADI 2025 Shared Task 2: Pushing the Boundaries of Multidialectal Arabic ASR with Weakly Supervised Pretraining and Continual Supervised Fine-tuning

Mahmoud Salhab, Shameed Sait, Mohammad Abusheikh, Hasan Abusheikh

NADI 2025: The First Multidialectal Arabic Speech Processing Shared Task

Bashar Talafha, Hawau Olamide Toyin, Peter Sullivan, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Abdurrahman Juma

Thinking Nodes at MAHED: A Comparative Study of Multimodal Architectures for Arabic Hateful Meme Detection

Itbaan Safwan

AraNLP at MAHED 2025 Shared Task: Using AraBERT for Text-based Hate and Hope Speech Classification

Wafaa S. El-Kassas, Enas A. Hakim Khalil

CUET_Zahra_Duo@Mahed 2025: Hate and Hope Speech Detection in Arabic Social Media Content using Transformer

Walisa Alam, Mehreen Rahman, Shawly Ahsan, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque

Quasar at MAHED Shared Task : Decoding Emotions and Offense in Arabic Text using LLM and Transformer-Based Approaches

Md Sagor Chowdhury, Adiba Fairooz Chowdhury

joy_2004114 at MAHED Shared Task : Filtering Hate Speech from Memes using A Multimodal Fusion-based Approach

Joy Das, Alamgir Hossain, Mohammed Moshiul Hoque

MultiMinds at MAHED 2025: Multimodal and Multitask Approaches for Detecting Emotional, Hate, and Offensive Speech in Arabic Content

Riddhiman Debnath, Abdul Wadud Shakib, Md Saiful Islam

AyahVerse at MAHED Shared Task: Fine-Tuning ArabicBERT with Preprocessing for Hope and Hate Detection

Ibad-ur-Rehman Rashid, Muhammad Hashir Khalil

Baoflowin502 at MAHED Shared Task: Text-based Hate and Hope Speech Classification

Nguyen Minh Bao, Dang Van Thin

SmolLab_SEU at MAHED Shared Task: Do Arabic-Native Encoders Surpass Multilingual Models in Detecting the Nuances of Hope, Hate, and Emotion?

Md Abdur Rahman, Md Sabbir Dewan, Md. Tofael Ahmed Bhuiyan, Md Ashiqur Rahman

HTU at MAHED Shared Task: Ensemble-Based Classification of Arabic Hate and Hope Speech Using Pre-trained Dialectal Arabic Models

Abdallah Saleh, Mariam M Biltawi

REGLAT at MAHED Shared Task: A Hybrid Ensemble-Based System for Arabic Hate Speech Detection

Nsrin Ashraf, Mariam Labib, Tarek Elshishtawy, Hamada Nayel

ANLP-UniSo at MAHED Shared Task: Detection of Hate and Hope Speech in Arabic Social Media based on XLM-RoBERTa and Logistic Regression

Yasmine El Abed, Mariem Ben Arbia, Saoussen Ben Chaabene, Omar Trigui

DesCartes-HOPE at MAHED Shared task 2025: Integrating Pragmatic Features for Arabic Hope and Hate Speech Detection

Leila Moudjari, Hacène-Cherkaski Mélissa, Farah Benamara

AraMinds at MAHED 2025: Leveraging Vision-Language Models and Contrastive Multi-task Learning for Multimodal Hate Speech Detection

Mohamed Zaytoon, Ahmed Mahmoud Salem, Ahmed Sakr, Hossam Elkordi

CUET-823 at MAHED 2025 Shared Task: Large Language Model-Based Framework for Emotion, Offensive, and Hate Detection in Arabic

Ratnajit Dhar, Arpita Mallik

AAA at MAHED Text-based Hate and Hope Speech Classification: A Systematic Encoder Evaluation for Arabic Hope and Hate Speech Classification

Ahmed Khalil Elzainy, Mohamed Amin, Ahmed Samir, Hazem Abdelsalam

YassirEA at MAHED 2025: Fusion-Based Multimodal Models for Arabic Hate Meme Detection

Yassir El Attar

TranTranUIT at MAHED Shared Task: Multilingual Transformer Ensemble with Advanced Data Augmentation and Optuna-based Hyperparameter Optimization

Trinh Tran Tran, Thìn Đặng Văn

CIC-NLP at MAHED 2025 TASK 1:Assessing the Role of Bigram Augmentation in Multiclass Arabic Hate and Hope Speech Classification

Tolulope Olalekan Abiola, Oluwatobi Joseph Abiola, Ogunleye Temitope Dasola, Tewodros Achamaleh, Obiadoh Augustine Ekenedilichukwu

LoveHeaven at MAHED 2025: Text-based Hate and Hope Speech Classification Using AraBERT-Twitter Ensemble

Nguyễn Thiên Bảo, Dang Van Thin

ANLPers at MAHED2025: From Hate to Hope: Boosting Arabic Text Classification

Yasser Alhabashi, Serry Sibaee, Omer Nacar, Adel Ammar, Wadii Boulila

NguyenTriet at MAHED Shared Task: Ensemble of Arabic BERT Models with Hierarchical Prediction and Soft Voting for Text-Based Hope and Hate Detection

Nguyen Minh Triet, Thìn Đặng Văn

NYUAD at MAHED Shared Task: Detecting Hope, Hate, and Emotion in Arabic Textual Speech and Multi-modal Memes Using Large Language Models

Nouar Aldahoul, Yasir Zaki

MAHED Shared Task: Multimodal Detection of Hope and Hate Emotions in Arabic Content

Wajdi Zaghouani, Md. Rafiul Biswas, Mabrouka Bessghaier, Shimaa Ibrahim, George Mikros

Isnad AI at IslamicEval 2025: A Rule-Based System for Identifying Religious Texts in LLM Outputs

Fatimah Mohamed Emad Elden

Burhan at IslamicEval: Fact-Augmented and LLM-Driven Retrieval for Islamic QA

Mohammad Basheer, Watheq Mansour, Abdulhamid Touma, Ahmad Qadeib Alban

ThinkDrill at IslamicEval 2025 Shared Task: LLM Hybrid Approach for Qur’an and Hadith Question Answering

Eman Elrefai, Toka Khaled, Ahmed Soliman

TCE at IslamicEval 2025: Retrieval-Augmented LLMs for Quranic and Hadith Content Identification and Verification

Mohammed ElKoumy, Khalid Allam, Ahmad Tamer, Mohamed Alqablawi

HUMAIN at IslamicEval 2025 Shared Task 1: A Three-Stage LLM-Based Pipeline for Detecting and Correcting Hallucinations in Quran and Hadith

Arwa Omayrah, Sakhar Alkhereyf, Ahmed Abdelali, Abdulmohsen Al-Thubaity, Jeril Kuriakose

BurhanAI at IslamicEval 2025 Shared Task: Combating Hallucinations in LLMs for Islamic Content; Evaluation, Correction, and Retrieval-Based Solution

Arij Al Adel, Abu Bakr Soliman, Mohamed Sakher Sawan, Rahaf Al-Najjar, Sameh Amin

NUR at IslamicEval 2025 Shared Task: Retrieval-Augmented LLMs for Qur’an and Hadith QA

Serag Amin, Ranwa Aly, Yara Allam, Yomna Eid, Ensaf Hussein Mohamed

IslamicEval 2025: The First Shared Task of Capturing LLMs Hallucination in Islamic Content

Hamdy Mubarak, Rana Malhas, Watheq Mansour, Abubakr Mohamed, Mahmoud Fawzi

Metapseud at Iqra’Eval: Domain Adaptation with Multi-Stage Fine-Tuning for Phoneme-Level Qur’anic Mispronunciation Detection

Ayman Mansour

AraS2P: Arabic Speech-to-Phonemes System

Bassam Mattar, Mohamed Fayed, Ayman Khalafallah

ANPLers at IqraEval Shared task: Adapting Whisper-large-v3 as Speech-to-Phoneme for Qur’anic Recitation Mispronunciation Detection

Nour Qandos, Serry Sibaee, Samar Ahmad, Omer Nacar, Adel Ammar

Phoneme-level mispronunciation detection in Quranic recitation using ShallowTransformer

Mohamed Nadhir Daoud, Mohamed Anouar Ben Messaoud

Hafs2Vec: A System for the IqraEval Arabic and Qur’anic Phoneme-level Pronunciation Assessment

Ahmed Ibrahim

Iqra’Eval: A Shared Task on Qur’anic Pronunciation Assessment

Yassine El Kheir, Amit Meghanani, Hawau Olamide Toyin, Nada Almarwani, Omnia Ibrahim

AZLU at ImagEval Shared Task: Bridging Linguistics and Cultural Gaps in Arabic Image Captioning

Sarah Yassine

Averroes at ImageEval 2025 Shared Task: Advancing Arabic Image Captioning with Augmentation and Two-Stage Generation

Mariam Saeed, Sarah Elshabrawy, Abdelrahman Hagrass, Mazen Yasser, Ayman Khalafallah

NU_Internship team at ImageEval 2025: From Zero-Shot to Ensembles: Enhancing Grounded Arabic Image Captioning

Rana Gaber, Seif Eldin Amgad, Ahmed Sherif Nasri, Mohamed Ibrahim Ragab, Ensaf Hussein Mohamed

PhantomTroupe at ImageEval 2025 Shared Task: Multimodal Arabic Image Captioning through Translation-Based Fine-Tuning of LLM Models

Muhammad Abu Horaira, Farhan Amin, Sakibul Hasan, Md. Tanvir Ahammed Shawon, Muhammad Ibrahim Khan

VLCAP at ImageEval 2025 Shared Task: Multimodal Arabic Captioning with Interpretable Visual Concept Integration

Passant Elchafei, Amany Fashwan

ImpactAi at ImageEval 2025 Shared Task: Region-Aware Transformers for Arabic Image Captioning – A Case Study on the Palestinian Narrative

Rabee Al-Qasem, Mohannad Hendi

BZU-AUM@ImageEval2025: An Arabic Image Captioning Dataset for Conflict Narratives with Human Annotation

Mohammed Alkhanafseh, Ola Surakhi, Abdallah Abedaljalill

Codezone Research Group at ImageEval Shared-Task 2: Arabic Image Captioning Using BLIP and M2M100: A Two-Stage Translation Approach for ImageEval 2025

Abdulkadir Shehu Bichi