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Mohamad Bilal Zbib

Mohamad Bilal Zbib has 3 papers in our library, in 2026, most of them on Semitic languages, Machine translation, Language models & pretraining; often with Ammar Mohanna, Bernard Ghanem, Hasan Abed Al Kader Hammoud.

3 papers in our library · 2026

OpenAlex · h-index 1 · 6 works · 1 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 3 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 7 times in our library · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #10112

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 Affiliations

🎓American University of BeirutBeirut · Lebanon2026 · 3 paperscurrent🎓King Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyJeddah · Saudi Arabia2026 · 3 paperscurrent

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 6The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Artificial Intelligence · 3 worksComputer Science · 3 worksArts and Humanities · 2 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 2 worksSafety Research · 1 workSocial Sciences · 1 work

🧭 Topics 6Research subjects and languages the work is about.Semitic languages · 3 worksMachine translation · 1 workEvaluation & benchmarks · 1 workLanguage models & pretraining · 1 workMorphology · 1 workBias, fairness & safety · 1 work

 Works by year

2020s

20263 papers

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Hala Technical Report Building Arabic-Centric Instruction & Translation Models at Scale (2026 · 5 citations)
    Arabic language models are held back by a shortage of good Arabic instruction-tuning data. The authors address this with a "translate-and-tune" pipeline. First, a large AR↔EN translator, CohereLabs/command-a-translate-08-2025, was quantized to FP8. It ran about twice as fast and its translation scores did not drop.…
  2. AraLingBench: A Human-Annotated Benchmark for Evaluating Arabic Linguistic Capabilities of Large Language Models (2026 · 3 citations)
    Arabic LLM evaluation has focused mostly on factual knowledge and problem solving, through suites such as ArabicMMLU, EXAMS, BALSAM and 3LM.
  3. Arabic Safety Alignment as Selective Refusal: An Empirical Study of SFT, DPO, and Guard Calibration (2026)
    The paper asks how to make Arabic-capable LLMs refuse harmful requests without also refusing benign but sensitive questions about news, medicine, law, or policy.

 Co-authors here

3 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 7 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 6 citing papers with a page here →.

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