Papers by Houdaifa Atou

4 papers
Pearl: A Multimodal Culturally-Aware Arabic Instruction Dataset (2025.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Mainstream large vision-language models (LVLMs) inherently encode cultural biases, highlighting the need for diverse multimodal datasets.
Approach: They propose to construct a large-scale Arabic multimodal dataset and benchmark explicitly designed for cultural understanding.
Outcome: The proposed dataset covers ten culturally significant domains covering all Arab countries and includes two evaluation benchmarks (PEARL and PEARL-LITE) and a specialized subset (PearL-X).
Alexandria: A Multi-Domain Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation Dataset for Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse LLMs (2026.acl-long)

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Challenge: Arabic is a highly diglossic language where most daily communication occurs in regional dialects rather than modern standard Arabic (MSA).
Approach: They propose a large-scale, community-driven, human-translated dataset to bridge this gap . Alexandria covers 13 Arab countries and 11 high-impact domains . it provides unprecedented granularity by associating contributions with city-of-origin metadata .
Outcome: The Alexandria dataset covers 13 Arab countries and 11 high-impact domains . it provides unprecedented granularity by associating contributions with city-of-origin metadata . Alexandria is a training resource and a rigorous benchmark for evaluating MT and LLMs based on the Alexandria dataset .
NileChat: Towards Linguistically Diverse and Culturally Aware LLMs for Local Communities (2025.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: Current research directions rely on synthetic data generated by translating English corpora, which often fails to represent the cultural heritage and values of local communities.
Approach: They propose a method to create and retrieve pre-training data tailored to a specific community . they use Egyptian and Moroccan dialects as testbeds to test their understanding .
Outcome: The proposed method outperforms existing Arabic-aware LLMs and performs on par with larger models.

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