Haithem Kchaou
Haithem Kchaou has 2 papers on this site, in 2024, most of them on Semitic languages, Language models & pretraining; often with Chehir Dhaouadi, Ghaith Chaabane, Hasna Chouikhi.
OpenAlex · h-index 1 · 2 works · 1 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14
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- 101 Billion Arabic Words Dataset (2024 · 13 citations)
The paper tackles the shortage of large, native Arabic text for pretraining language models. Many Arabic LLMs rely on English or translated material, which can introduce bias and weaken authenticity. Following the RefinedWeb idea that well-filtered web data alone can be enough, the authors mined Common Crawl WET… - GemmAr: Enhancing LLMs Through Arabic Instruction-Tuning (2024 · 4 citations)
Open LLMs handle English well but are much weaker in Arabic, largely because there are few Arabic instruction-response datasets for fine-tuning.
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