Mohamad Ballout

21 papers A* 2B 1C 2Journal 11Unranked 5
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
Alexandria: A Multi-Domain Dialectal Arabic Machine Translation Dataset for Culturally Inclusive and Linguistically Diverse LLMs.
CoRR
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
2025 — conf
Can you SPLICE it together? A Human Curated Benchmark for Probing Visual Reasoning in VLMs.
EMNLP (Findings)
Mohamad Ballout, Okajevo Wilfred, Seyedalireza Yaghoubi, Nohayr Abdelmoneim, Julius Mayer, Elia Bruni
2025 J jnl
Can you SPLICE it together? A Human Curated Benchmark for Probing Visual Reasoning in VLMs.
CoRR
Mohamad Ballout, Okajevo Wilfred, Seyedalireza Yaghoubi, Nohayr Abdelmoneim, Julius Mayer, Elia Bruni
2025 J jnl
Pixels to Principles: Probing Intuitive Physics Understanding in Multimodal Language Models.
CoRR
Mohamad Ballout, Serwan Jassim, Elia Bruni
2025 J jnl
Transformer Tafsir at QIAS 2025 Shared Task: Hybrid Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Islamic Knowledge Question Answering.
CoRR
Muhammad Abu Ahmad, Mohamad Ballout, Raia Abu Ahmad, Elia Bruni
2025 A* conf
iVISPAR - An Interactive Visual-Spatial Reasoning Benchmark for VLMs.
EMNLP
Julius Mayer, Mohamad Ballout, Serwan Jassim, Farbod Nosrat Nezami, Elia Bruni
2025 J jnl
iVISPAR - An Interactive Visual-Spatial Reasoning Benchmark for VLMs.
CoRR
Julius Mayer, Mohamad Ballout, Serwan Jassim, Farbod Nosrat Nezami, Elia Bruni
2024 — conf
Efficient Knowledge Distillation: Empowering Small Language Models with Teacher Model Insights.
NLDB (1)
Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
2024 J jnl
Efficient Knowledge Distillation: Empowering Small Language Models with Teacher Model Insights.
CoRR
Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
2024 J jnl
Enhancing SLM via ChatGPT and Dataset Augmentation.
CoRR
Tom Pieper, Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
2024 — conf
Enhancing Small Language Models via ChatGPT and Dataset Augmentation.
NLDB (2)
Tom Pieper, Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
2024 A* conf
FOOL ME IF YOU CAN! An Adversarial Dataset to Investigate the Robustness of LMs in Word Sense Disambiguation.
EMNLP
Mohamad Ballout, Anne Dedert, Nohayr Abdelmoneim, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
2024 C conf
Generating Qualitative Descriptions of Diagrams with a Transformer-Based Language Model.
Diagrams
Marco Schorlemmer, Mohamad Ballout, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
2024 J jnl
Show Me How It's Done: The Role of Explanations in Fine-Tuning Language Models.
CoRR
Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
2023 — conf
Investigating Pre-trained Language Models on Cross-Domain Datasets, a Step Closer to General AI.
INNS DLIA@IJCNN
Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
2023 J jnl
Investigating Pre-trained Language Models on Cross-Domain Datasets, a Step Closer to General AI.
CoRR
Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
2023 — conf
Opening the Black Box: Analyzing Attention Weights and Hidden States in Pre-trained Language Models for Non-language Tasks.
xAI (3)
Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
2023 J jnl
Opening the Black Box: Analyzing Attention Weights and Hidden States in Pre-trained Language Models for Non-language Tasks.
CoRR
Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
2023 C conf
Show Me How It's Done: The Role of Explanations in Fine-Tuning Language Models.
ACML
Mohamad Ballout, Ulf Krumnack, Gunther Heidemann, Kai-Uwe Kühnberger
2020 B conf
The benefits of synthetic data for action categorization.
IJCNN
Mohamad Ballout, Mohammad Tuqan, Daniel C. Asmar, Elie A. Shammas, George E. Sakr
2020 J jnl
The benefits of synthetic data for action categorization.
CoRR
Mohamad Ballout, Mohammad Tuqan, Daniel C. Asmar, Elie A. Shammas, George E. Sakr