It Hears You in Egyptian and Will Not Answer You in It: Reading SeamlessM4T

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Ehab Saleh | techkahwa.net Model released: August 22, 2023 | Published: September 5, 2023 The numbers first Metric Result What it measures Source Modern Standard Arabic, speech in Supported Whether it hears you Official language table, seamless_communication repository Modern Standard Arabic, speech out Supported Whether it speaks to you Same table Egyptian Arabic, speech in … Read more

Eighty Percent in Arabic: The First Official Number, and the First Misleading One

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Ehab Saleh | techkahwa.net Model released: March 14, 2023 | Published: March 28, 2023 The numbers first Metric Result What it measures Source GPT-4 on MMLU in Arabic 80% General knowledge, on a machine-translated exam GPT-4 Technical Report, Figure 5, March 2023 GPT-4 on MMLU in English, same condition 85.5% The reference the Arabic number … Read more

Before the Large Models Arrived: What Arabic Actually Had

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Ehab Saleh | techkahwa.net Work published: May 2022 (ACL 2022) | Published: June 5, 2022 The numbers first Metric Result What it measures Source AraBERT, training data 70 million sentences, about 24 GB The size of the Arabic input to the first serious Arabic model Antoun, Baly and Hajj, OSACT4 workshop, May 2020 AraBERT on … Read more