Mohamad Ballout

According to our database, Mohamad Ballout authored at least 14 papers between 2020 and 2026.

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2026

Alexandria: A Multi-Domain Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation Dataset for Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse LLMs.

Abdellah El Mekki, Samar Mohamed Magdy, Houdaifa Atou, Ruwa AbuHweidi, Baraah Qawasmeh, Omer Nacar, Thikra Al-Hibiri, Razan Saadie, Hamzah A. Alsayadi, Nadia Ghezaiel Hammouda, Alshima Alkhazimi, Aya Hamod, Al-Yas Al-Ghafri, Wesam El-Sayed, Asila Al Sharji, Mohamad Ballout, Anas Belfathi, Karim Ghaddar, Serry Sibaee, Alaa Aoun, Areej Asiri, Lina Abureesh, Ahlam Bashiti, Majdal Yousef, Abdulaziz Hafiz, Yehdih Mohamed, Emira Hamedtou, Brakehe Brahim, Rahaf Alhamouri, Youssef Nafea, Aya El Aatar, Walid Al-Dhabyani, Emhemed Hamed, Sara Shatnawi, Fakhraddin Alwajih, Khalid Elkhidir, Ashwag Alasmari, Abdurrahman Gerrio, Omar Alshahri, AbdelRahim A. Elmadany, Ismail Berrada, Amir Azad Adli Alkathiri, Fadi A. Zaraket, Mustafa Jarrar, Yahya Mohamed El Hadj, Hassan Alhuzali, Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

CoRR, January, 2026

2025

Pixels to Principles: Probing Intuitive Physics Understanding in Multimodal Language Models.

Mohamad Ballout, Serwan Jassim, Elia Bruni

CoRR, July, 2025

Transformer Tafsir at QIAS 2025 Shared Task: Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Islamic Knowledge Question Answering.

Muhammad Abu Ahmad, Mohamad Ballout, Raia Abu Ahmad, Elia Bruni

Proceedings of The Third Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference: ArabicNLP 2025, 2025

iVISPAR - An Interactive Visual-Spatial Reasoning Benchmark for VLMs.

Julius Mayer, Mohamad Ballout, Serwan Jassim, Farbod Nosrat Nezami, Elia Bruni

Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2025

Can you SPLICE it together? A Human Curated Benchmark for Probing Visual Reasoning in VLMs.

Mohamad Ballout, Okajevo Wilfred, Seyedalireza Yaghoubi, Nohayr Abdelmoneim, Julius Mayer, Elia Bruni

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 2025

2024

Enhancing SLM via ChatGPT and Dataset Augmentation.

Tom Pieper, Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

CoRR, 2024

Enhancing Small Language Models via ChatGPT and Dataset Augmentation.

Tom Pieper, Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing and Information Systems, 2024

Efficient Knowledge Distillation: Empowering Small Language Models with Teacher Model Insights.

Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

Proceedings of the Natural Language Processing and Information Systems, 2024

FOOL ME IF YOU CAN! An Adversarial Dataset to Investigate the Robustness of LMs in Word Sense Disambiguation.

Mohamad Ballout, Anne Dedert, Nohayr Abdelmoneim, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024

Generating Qualitative Descriptions of Diagrams with a Transformer-Based Language Model.

Marco Schorlemmer, Mohamad Ballout, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

Proceedings of the Diagrammatic Representation and Inference, 2024

2023

Opening the Black Box: Analyzing Attention Weights and Hidden States in Pre-trained Language Models for Non-language Tasks.

Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

Proceedings of the Explainable Artificial Intelligence, 2023

Investigating Pre-trained Language Models on Cross-Domain Datasets, a Step Closer to General AI.

Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

Proceedings of the International Neural Network Society Workshop on Deep Learning Innovations and Applications, 2023

Show Me How It's Done: The Role of Explanations in Fine-Tuning Language Models.

Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger

Proceedings of the Asian Conference on Machine Learning, 2023

2020

The benefits of synthetic data for action categorization.

Mohamad Ballout, Mohammad Tuqan, Daniel C. Asmar, Elie A. Shammas, George E. Sakr

Proceedings of the 2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, 2020