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Mohamed-Amine Chadi

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arXiv2026

TutlAit v1: a crowdsourced Moroccan Tamazight speech dataset with Arabic transcriptions and regional accent labels

Tamazight (Amazigh) is, together with Arabic, one of the two official languages of Morocco, yet it remains severely under-resourced for speech technology: pub licly available labelled audio is scarce, generally lacks information on the regional variety spoken, and is often of uneven transcription quality. This article describes the TutlAit dataset, a corpus of Moroccan Tamazight speech paired with Modern Standard Arabic text and explicit regional accent labels. The data were collected with TutlAit, a purpose-built crowdsourcing web application (React 18 front end, Django 5 / Django REST Framework back-end, PostgreSQL database). Native speakers recruited through targeted LinkedIn and Instagram campaigns created an account, declared their regional variety (Atlas, Souss, Rif or other) and demographic information, and then contributed through two workflows: Text-to Audio, in which an Arabic sentence is displayed and the volunteer records its oral Tamazight rendering in the browser, and Audio-to-Text, in which a Tamazight excerpt is played and the volunteer types its Arabic transcription. A complemen tary set of segments was obtained from freely accessible Tamazight audiovisual media, segmented and annotated with ELAN and imported through a bulk CSV/ZIP pipeline. Every upload is converted server-side to 16kHz mono WAV, hashed with SHA-256 for duplicate rejection, checked for duration bounds and validated by an administrator. The dataset contains 13,384 audio files totalling 75,231 seconds (approximately 20.9 hours, about 3.01GB). The Atlas variety accounts for 9,956 files (14.08h) and the Souss variety for 3,378 files (6.75h); small Rif (22 files) and Kabyle (28 files) subsets are also included. The corpus can be reused for speech recognition, speech translation and accent identification for Moroccan Tamazight.

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arXiv2023

Curiosity as a Self-Supervised Method to Improve Exploration in De novo Drug Design

In recent years, deep learning has demonstrated promising results in de novo drug design. However, the proposed techniques still lack an efficient exploration of the large chemical space. Most of these methods explore a small fragment of the chemical space of known drugs, if the desired molecules were not found, the process ends. In this work, we introduce a curiosity-driven method to force the model to navigate many parts of the chemical space, therefore, achieving higher desirability and diversity as well. At first, we train a recurrent neural network-based general molecular generator (G), then we fine-tune G to maximize curiosity and desirability. We define curiosity as the Tanimoto similarity between two generated molecules, a first molecule generated by G, and a second one generated by a copy of G (Gcopy). We only backpropagate the loss through G while keeping Gcopy unchanged. We benchmarked our approach against two desirable chemical properties related to drug-likeness and showed that the discovered chemical space can be significantly expanded, thus, discovering a higher number of desirable molecules with more diversity and potentially easier to synthesize. All Code and data used in this paper are available at https://github.com/amine179/Curiosity-RL-for-Drug-Design.

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arXiv2023

Understanding Reinforcement Learning Algorithms: The Progress from Basic Q-learning to Proximal Policy Optimization

This paper presents a review of the field of reinforcement learning (RL), with a focus on providing a comprehensive overview of the key concepts, techniques, and algorithms for beginners. RL has a unique setting, jargon, and mathematics that can be intimidating for those new to the field or artificial intelligence more broadly. While many papers review RL in the context of specific applications, such as games, healthcare, finance, or robotics, these papers can be difficult for beginners to follow due to the inclusion of non-RL-related work and the use of algorithms customized to those specific applications. To address these challenges, this paper provides a clear and concise overview of the fundamental principles of RL and covers the different types of RL algorithms. For each algorithm/method, we outline the main motivation behind its development, its inner workings, and its limitations. The presentation of the paper is aligned with the historical progress of the field, from the early 1980s Q-learning algorithm to the current state-of-the-art algorithms such as TD3, PPO, and offline RL. Overall, this paper aims to serve as a valuable resource for beginners looking to construct a solid understanding of the fundamentals of RL and be aware of the historical progress of the field. It is intended to be a go-to reference for those interested in learning about RL without being distracted by the details of specific applications.

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