A Short Study on Compressing Decoder-Based Language Models. - Tianda Li; Yassir El Mesbahi; Ivan Kobyzev; Ahmad Rashid; Atif Mahmud; Nithin Anchuri; Habib Hajimolahoseini; Yang Liu; Mehdi Rezagholizadeh (CoRR, 2021)

On the utility of enhancing BERT syntactic bias with Token Reordering Pretraining. - Yassir El Mesbahi; Atif Mahmud; Abbas Ghaddar; Mehdi Rezagholizadeh; Philippe Langlais; Prasanna Parthasarathi (CoNLL, 2023)

Benchmarking Transcriptomics Foundation Models for Perturbation Analysis : one PCA still rules them all. - Ihab Bendidi; Shawn Whitfield; Kian Kenyon-Dean; Hanene Ben Yedder; Yassir El Mesbahi; Emmanuel Noutahi; Alisandra K. Denton (CoRR, 2024)

SAFE setup for generative molecular design. - Yassir El Mesbahi; Emmanuel Noutahi (CoRR, 2024)

TxPert: Leveraging Biochemical Relationships for Out-of-Distribution Transcriptomic Perturbation Prediction. - Frederik Wenkel; Wilson Tu; Cassandra Masschelein; Hamed Shirzad; Cian Eastwood; Shawn Whitfield; Ihab Bendidi; Craig Russell; Liam Hodgson; Yassir El Mesbahi; Jiarui Ding; Marta M. Fay; et al. (CoRR, 2025)

A Cross Modal Knowledge Distillation & Data Augmentation Recipe for Improving Transcriptomics Representations through Morphological Features. - Ihab Bendidi; Yassir El Mesbahi; Alisandra K. Denton; Karush Suri; Kian Kenyon-Dean; Auguste Genovesio; Emmanuel Noutahi (CoRR, 2025)