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Abstract:…the relationship between textual context and visual elements. The majority of research on news image captioning focuses on English, primarily because datasets in otherlanguagesare scarce. To address this limitation, we create the first multilingual news image captioning benchmark, MUNIChus, comprising 9…▽ MoreThe goal of news image captioning is to generate captions by integrating news a
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Oct 27, 2025The Ministry of InformationTechnologyand Telecommunication (MoITT), in partnership with Meta, has launched ALIF, anUrduversion of MetaAI, enabling users inPakistanto interact with theAI...
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Oct 27, 2025PakistanMinister for InformationTechnologyand Telecommunication and META officials at the launch of 'ALIF,' an artificial intelligence (AI) model, that allows users to communicate with it ...
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Oct 27, 2025ISLAMABAD: Meta has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) model, that allows users to communicate with it inUrduas part of an expansion of itslanguagecapabilities,Pakistan'sinformationtechnology(IT) ministry said on Monday.Urdu,Pakistan'snationallanguageand one of the 22languagesenshrined under India's constitution, is spoken by millions of people in South Asia and ...
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Oct 25, 2024MULTAN, (UrduPoint / Pakistan PointNews- 25th Oct,2024) The preparations for Pakistan 's first-ever Artificial Intelligence (AI) and TechnologicalAdvancementExpo & Seminar, being organised by the South Punjab Secretariat, are in full swing currently. The event will showcase innovative scientific inventions and product's models developed by public and private universities of South Punjab ...
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Mar 6, 2025The rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming industries worldwide, from healthcare and education to e-commerce and entertainment. As global economies rapidly shift toward digital innovation, Pakistan faces a critical challenge— embraceAIor risk falling further behind. One of the most promising applications for the country isUrduAIassistants, which have the potential to ...
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Feb 18, 2026Announcing Alif 1.0: Our FirstUrduLLMoutperforming other Open SourceLLMsWe are thrilled to announce Alif 1.0, our first-everUrdu-EnglishLLM, setting a newbenchmarkin multilingual AI. Specifically optimized forUrdu, Alif addresses critical challenges inUrduNLP and brings significant advancements in reasoning, fluency, and cultural alignment. This launch marks a significant milestone ...
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Feb 24, 2025Abstract Multilingual Large Language Models (LLMs) often provide suboptimal performance on low-resource languages likeUrdu. This paper introduces UrduLLaMA 1.0, a model derived from the open-source Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct architecture and continually pre-trained on 128 millionUrdutokens, capturing the rich diversity of the language. To enhance instruction-following and translation ...
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Similarly, whileTTSsystems for Punjabi Gurumukhi exist [6 9], they fail to adequately servePunjabiShahmukhiduetophoneticandstructuraldif- ferences between the two scripts. In this study, deep learning basedTTSsystems forUrduand Punjabi Shahmukhi are proposed which can do language-specictextanalysis.
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Theuniversitysystem inPakistanhas grown considerably since the first university—theUniversityof the Punjab in Lahore—was established in 1882 in the territory that now constitutesPakistan. Since the establishment of the HEC in 2002, the number of universities inPakistanhas grown dramatically through accreditation of both pre-existing colleges and newly-established academic ...
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Hisresearchfields are Artificial Intelligence, Deep Neural Networks, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, and Image Processing. He has published 150 International Journal, 65 Conference, one Book, and 08 Book-Chapter publications (with 14,000 citations).
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