Papers by Sabri Boughorbel
Beyond the Leaderboard: Understanding Performance Disparities in Large Language Models via Model Diffing (2025.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | a recent study shows that benchmarking fails to explain why models outperform others . open-weight large language models have transformed the AI landscape . |
| Approach: | They use model diffing to analyze capability differences between Gemma-2-9b-it and SimPO-enhanced variants. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model diffing approach can provide fine-grained insights beyond leaderboard metrics . it can also help to identify model performance gaps, the authors say . |
LLMs for Low Resource Languages in Multilingual, Multimodal and Dialectal Settings (2024.eacl-tutorials)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in AI can be attributed to the remarkable performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) success of LLMs depends on specific training techniques, such as instruction tuning and prompting . |
| Approach: | They explore the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in various tasks and languages . they also examine their performance, fine-tuning, instructions tuning, and close vs. open models . |
| Outcome: | The proposed model can be used for speech and multimodal tasks across modalities, languages, and dialects. |
LAraBench: Benchmarking Arabic AI with Large Language Models (2024.eacl-long)
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Ahmed Abdelali, Hamdy Mubarak, Shammur Chowdhury, Maram Hasanain, Basel Mousi, Sabri Boughorbel, Samir Abdaljalil, Yassine El Kheir, Daniel Izham, Fahim Dalvi, Majd Hawasly, Nizi Nazar, Youssef Elshahawy, Ahmed Ali, Nadir Durrani, Natasa Milic-Frayling, Firoj Alam
| Challenge: | Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly influenced the landscape of language and speech research. |
| Approach: | They used GPT-3.5-turbo, GPT-4, BLOOMZ, Jais-13b-chat, Whisper, and USM to tackle 33 distinct tasks across 61 datasets. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms SOTA models in zero-shot learning, with a few exceptions. |
LLMeBench: A Flexible Framework for Accelerating LLMs Benchmarking (2024.eacl-demo)
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Fahim Dalvi, Maram Hasanain, Sabri Boughorbel, Basel Mousi, Samir Abdaljalil, Nizi Nazar, Ahmed Abdelali, Shammur Absar Chowdhury, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Ali
| Challenge: | Recent development and success of Large Language Models necessitate evaluation of their performance across diverse NLP tasks in different languages. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that can be customized to evaluate LLMs for any NLP task, regardless of language. |
| Outcome: | The LLMeBench framework can be customized to evaluate LLMs for any NLP task, regardless of language. |