--- title: "Safwan AlModhayan — author profile and papers" description: "Safwan AlModhayan: 4 papers on Elamur Research (2025), h-index 1 — affiliations, topics, co-authors and who cites them in our library." canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/safwan-almodhayan/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/safwan-almodhayan/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [authors](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/) / Safwan AlModhayan # Safwan AlModhayan Safwan AlModhayan has 4 papers in our library, in 2025, most of them on [Semitic languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/), [Language models & pretraining](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/), [Vision & language](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/); often with [Khalil Hennara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khalil-hennara/), [Sara Chrouf](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sara-chrouf/), [Zeina Aldallal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeina-aldallal/). 4 papers in our library · 2025 [OpenAlex](https://openalex.org/A5120651265) · [**h-index 1**](https://openalex.org/authors/A5120651265) · [5 works](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5120651265) · [1 citations](https://openalex.org/works?filter=author.id:A5120651265&sort=cited_by_count:desc) OpenAlex, 2026-10-14 [📄 4 works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/safwan-almodhayan/#papers) · [🔗 9 citations in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/safwan-almodhayan/cited-by/) · [1 more in our library without a page yet](#also) · [⭐ Paper Star rank #4819](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/paper-stars/page/49/#star-4819) 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=Safwan+AlModhayan) · [Semantic Scholar](https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=Safwan+AlModhayan) · [dblp](https://dblp.org/search?q=Safwan+AlModhayan) · [ACL Anthology](https://aclanthology.org/search/?q=Safwan+AlModhayan) ## Affiliations [🏥**Saad Specialist Hospital** Khobar · Saudi Arabia 2025 · 3 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/hospitals/saad-specialist-hospital/) From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. ## Topics [Semitic languages (4)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Language models & pretraining (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/language-models/) · [Vision & language (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/multimodal/) ## Works by year ### 2020s [**2025** 4 papers](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/safwan-almodhayan/year/2025/) ## Papers The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library). 1. **[Kuwain 1.5B: An Arabic SLM via Language Injection](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hennara-2025-kuwain-1-5b-arabic-slm/)** *(2025 · 4 citations)* Most open LLMs are trained mainly on English, and they handle Arabic poorly. The usual fix is continued pre-training, which is costly and tends to erode the model's English skills. This paper builds Kuwain 1.5B by "injecting" Arabic into TinyLlama 1.1B, an English-centric base model. The original weights stay frozen.… 2. **[Baseer: A Vision-Language Model for Arabic Document-to-Markdown OCR](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hennara-2025-baseer-vision-language-model-arabic/)** *(2025 · 3 citations)* Arabic page OCR remains difficult for current multimodal models. The script is cursive, letter shapes change with context, ligatures are common, diacritics carry meaning, text runs right to left, and fonts vary widely. The authors adapt Qwen2.5-VL-3B-Instruct into Baseer, a model that takes a page image and outputs… 3. **[Sadeed: Advancing Arabic Diacritization Through Small Language Model](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/aldallal-2025-sadeed-advancing-arabic-diacritization-through/)** *(2025 · 3 citations)* Arabic is usually written without short-vowel marks (diacritics). Restoring them is hard because one consonant skeleton can stand for several words, and the right choice often depends on the whole sentence and even on punctuation. The authors build Sadeed by fine-tuning Kuwain 1.5B, a small decoder-only model… 4. **[Wasm: A Pipeline for Constructing Structured Arabic Interleaved Multimodal Corpora](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/hennara-2025-wasm-pipeline-constructing-structured-arabic/)** *(2025)* Arabic web corpora have generally been built as plain text. That approach discards page layout, formatting and the placement of images, which interleaved multimodal models need. Wasm addresses this gap with a Common Crawl processing pipeline for Arabic, adapted from the OBELICS framework. Instead of flat text, it… ## Also in our library 1 more work of theirs is in our library without a page here yet; it will appear as we publish them. ## Co-authors here 5 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first. - [Khalil Hennara](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/khalil-hennara/) ×3 - [Sara Chrouf](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/sara-chrouf/) ×3 - [Zeina Aldallal](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/zeina-aldallal/) ×3 - [Mohamed Motaism Hamed](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/mohamed-motaism-hamed/) ×2 - [Muhammad Hreden](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/muhammad-hreden/) ×2 ## Cited by Papers of our library cite their works 9 times (of the 140,884 papers whose bibliographies we read); [2 citing papers with a page here →](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/safwan-almodhayan/cited-by/).