--- title: "Hisham Abdullah Alyahya — author profile and papers" description: "Hisham Abdullah Alyahya, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute: 2 papers on Elamur Research (2024), h-index 2 — affiliations, topics, co-authors…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hisham-abdullah-alyahya/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hisham-abdullah-alyahya/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Hisham Abdullah Alyahya # Hisham Abdullah Alyahya Hisham Abdullah Alyahya has 2 papers in our library, in 2024, most of them on [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Evaluation & benchmarks](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/), [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/); often with [Faisal Abdulrahman Mirza](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/faisal-abdulrahman-mirza/), [M Saiful Bari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/m-saiful-bari/), [Shaykhah Z. Alsubaie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaykhah-z-alsubaie/). 2 papers in our library · 2024 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5115024403) · [**h-index 2**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5115024403) · [7 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5115024403) · [27 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5115024403&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 2 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hisham-abdullah-alyahya/#papers) · [🔗 Cited 181 times in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hisham-abdullah-alyahya/cited-by/) · [⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #6613](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/67/#star-6613) The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart. Elsewhere: [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=Hisham+Abdullah+Alyahya) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Hisham+Abdullah+Alyahya) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Hisham+Abdullah+Alyahya) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Hisham+Abdullah+Alyahya) ## Affiliations [🎓**Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute** Troy · United States 2025 · 1 paper*current*](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/rensselaer-polytechnic-institute/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Fields, topics and concepts Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. 📚 Shelves 4 The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).[Artificial Intelligence · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/artificial-intelligence/) · [Arts and Humanities · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Language and Linguistics · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/language-and-linguistics/) 🧭 Topics 4 Research subjects and languages the work is about.[Language models & pretraining · 2 works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Evaluation & benchmarks · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/evaluation-benchmarks/) · [English · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/english/) · [Semitic languages · 1 work](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2024** 2 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hisham-abdullah-alyahya/year/2024/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[ALLaM: Large Language Models for Arabic and English](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/bari-2024-allam-large-language-models-arabic/)** *(2024 · 113 citations)* The paper addresses the lack of strong Arabic LLMs. Frontier models are mostly English-centric, and Arabic pretraining data is scarce. The NCAI/SDAIA team builds ALLaM in two stages. First, they continue training Llama-2 checkpoints after expanding the tokenizer vocabulary with Arabic tokens. Then they apply what… 2. **[When Benchmarks are Targets: Revealing the Sensitivity of Large Language Model Leaderboards](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/alzahrani-2024-benchmarks-targets-revealing-sensitivity-large/)** *(2024 · 74 citations)* The authors, from NCAI (SDAIA, Riyadh), test whether LLM leaderboards built on multiple-choice question (MCQ) benchmarks can be trusted. ## Co-authors here 12 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Faisal Abdulrahman Mirza](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/faisal-abdulrahman-mirza/) ×2 - [M Saiful Bari](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/m-saiful-bari/) ×2 - [Shaykhah Z. Alsubaie](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/shaykhah-z-alsubaie/) ×2 - [Sultan AlRashed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sultan-alrashed/) ×2 - [Yazeed Alnumay](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/yazeed-alnumay/) ×2 - [Areeb Alowisheq](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/areeb-alowisheq/) - [Haidar Khan](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/haidar-khan/) - [Nora Altwairesh](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nora-altwairesh/) - [Norah A. Alzahrani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/norah-a-alzahrani/) - [Norah Alzahrani](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/norah-alzahrani/) - [Nouf Alotaibi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nouf-alotaibi/) - [Nouf M. Alotaibi](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/nouf-m-alotaibi/) ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 181 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); [109 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/hisham-abdullah-alyahya/cited-by/). Updated 2 November 2026