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Mervat T. Abassy

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#natural language process... Jul 2026

Can Dialects Be Steered Like Languages? Sparse Neurons and Distributed Directions in Arabic LLMs

Neuron steering reinforces dialect in some varieties when the prompt is already dialectal but cannot induce it from MSA prompts, whereas vector steering succeeds in both settings, and Arabic dialects are therefore steerable mainly through distributed rather than localized representations.

K. Elozeiri, Mervat T. Abassy, Omar Kallas et al. · arXiv.org · 0 citations

Preprint Jul 2026

Jais 2: A Family of Arabic-Centric Open Large Language Models

Jais 2 is a family of Arabic-centric large language models developed jointly by MBZUAI, Cerebras, and Inception, designed to advance Arabic-centric language modeling, with strong performance across the Arabic and culturally grounded benchmarks evaluated in this report. The family includes, to our knowledge, the largest...

Mohamed Anwar, A. Freihat, George Ibrahim et al. · 3 citations