🧑‍🔬 Salem Lahlou

🏛️ Affiliations

🎓Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial IntelligenceAbu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates2023–2026 · 31 papersEmployment since 2024 · Assistant Professor, Machine Learningcurrent🎓Zayed UniversityAbu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates2025–2026 · 2 paperscurrent🔬Canadian Institute for Advanced ResearchToronto · Canada2026 · 1 papercurrent🎓Université de MontréalMontreal · Canada2020–2024 · 5 papers🔬Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence InstituteMontreal · Canada2021–2023 · 4 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

🧭 Fields, topics and concepts

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

📅 Works by year

2020s

📄 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

1. SAHM: A Benchmark for Arabic Financial and Shari'ah-Compliant Reasoning (2026 · 4 citations)
   Arabic financial NLP has almost no evaluation resources, even though Gulf economies and the Islamic finance industry produce large amounts of Arabic regulatory, juristic and corporate text.
2. ArabicDialectHub: A Cross-Dialectal Arabic Learning Resource and Platform (2026)
   ArabicDialectHub targets a gap in Arabic learning. Most apps teach only MSA, and dialect corpora such as MADAR or PADIC are built for NLP research, not for learners. The author contributes two things. The first is a collection of 552 phrases organized for teaching, spanning MSA along with five dialects: Lebanese…
3. Communication Enables Cooperation in LLM Agents: A Comparison with Curriculum-Based Approaches (2026)
   The paper examines how to make LLM agents cooperate in social dilemmas. It compares two interventions: an explicit communication channel and in-context curriculum learning. Four instruction-tuned models (Mixtral-8x22B, Qwen2.5-72B, Llama-3.3-70B, DeepSeek-V3) played classic game-theory scenarios through the DeepInfra…
4. SD-E2: Semantic Exploration for Reasoning Under Token Budgets (2026)
   Small language models have a hard time with multi-step reasoning when token budgets are tight. They need to try different solution approaches, but sampling many traces is costly. Standard RL rewards such as GRPO also cannot tell a new strategy apart from a reworded old one. The authors propose SD-E2, an RL framework…

All works

6 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 4 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

1. BabyAI: A Platform to Study the Sample Efficiency of Grounded Language Learning ↗arXiv:1810.08272 · no summary yetMaxime Chevalier-Boisvert et al.2018 · 123 citations
2. Minigrid & Miniworld: Modular & Customizable Reinforcement Learning Environments for Goal-Oriented Tasks ↗arXiv:2306.13831 · no summary yetMaxime Chevalier-Boisvert et al.2023 · 25 citations
3. SAHM: A Benchmark for Arabic Financial and Shari'ah-Compliant ReasoningAnnual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)Rania Elbadry, Sarfraz Ahmad, Ahmed Heakl, et al.2026 · 4 citations
4. ArabicDialectHub: A Cross-Dialectal Arabic Learning Resource and PlatformWorkshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic ScriptSalem Lahlou2026
5. Communication Enables Cooperation in LLM Agents: A Comparison with Curriculum-Based ApproachesConference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL)Hachem Madmoun, Salem Lahlou2026
6. SD-E2: Semantic Exploration for Reasoning Under Token BudgetsFindings of the Association for Computational LinguisticsKshitij Mishra, Nils Lukas, Salem Lahlou2026

🤝 Co-authors here

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

• Ahmed Heakl
• Hachem Madmoun
• Jimin Huang
• Kshitij Mishra
• Momina Ahsan
• Nils Lukas
• Rania Elbadry
• Sarfraz Ahmad
• Sophia Ananiadou
• Veselin Stoyanov
• Yuxia Wang

Venues

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

• Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) ×2: ACL 2026
• Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script: Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script 2026
• Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL): EACL 2026
• Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics 2026

🔗 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 93 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 10 citing papers with a page here →.

Updated 1 November 2026

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