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UI-Level Evaluation of ALLaM 34B: Measuring an Arabic-Centric LLM via HUMAIN Chat

arXiv · Aug 24 · LLM Arabic AI

This paper presents a UI-level evaluation of ALLaM-34B, an Arabic-centric LLM developed by SDAIA and deployed in the HUMAIN Chat service. The evaluation used a prompt pack spanning various Arabic dialects, code-switching, reasoning, and safety, with outputs scored by frontier LLM judges. Results indicate strong performance in generation, code-switching, MSA handling, reasoning, and improved dialect fidelity, positioning ALLaM-34B as a robust Arabic LLM suitable for real-world use.

Saudi-Dialect-ALLaM: LoRA Fine-Tuning for Dialectal Arabic Generation

arXiv · Aug 19 · NLP LLM

This paper introduces Saudi-Dialect-ALLaM, a LoRA fine-tuned version of the Saudi Arabian foundation model ALLaM-7B-Instruct-preview, designed to improve the generation of Saudi dialects (Najdi and Hijazi). The model is trained on a private dataset of 5,466 synthetic instruction-response pairs, with two variants explored: Dialect-Token and No-Token training. Results indicate that the Dialect-Token model achieves superior dialect control and fidelity compared to generic instruction models, although the dataset and model weights are not released.

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