Papers with Arabic VLMs
JEEM: Vision-Language Understanding in Four Arabic Dialects (2026.findings-eacl)
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Karima Kadaoui, Hanin Atwany, Hamdan Al-Ali, Abdelrahman Mohamed, Ali Mekky, Sergei Tilga, Natalia Fedorova, Ekaterina Artemova, Hanan Aldarmaki, Yova Kementchedjhieva
| Challenge: | Existing evaluation datasets feature Western-centric images and English text, while their non-English counterparts are often derived from the latter. |
| Approach: | They propose to evaluate Vision-Language Models (VLMs) on visual understanding across four Arabic-speaking countries: Jordan, The Emirates, Egypt, and Morocco. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model underperforms in visual understanding and dialect-specific generation across four Arabic-speaking countries. |
AraVQA: Building a New Arabic Factoid Visual Question Answering Dataset from Wikipedia (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing Arabic VQA datasets focus on culturally-specific and dialect-aware domains. |
| Approach: | They propose a pipeline that leverages Wikipedia template tags to extract relevant information for each image and utilize it to generate a new visual question answering dataset. |
| Outcome: | The proposed pipeline can enhance existing VLMs on Arabic VQA tasks by leveraging Wikipedia template tags. |