Fine-Tuning Arabic Large Language Models for improved multi-turn dialogue: A blueprint for synthetic data generation and benchmarking

Ahmed Mahmoud Misbah; Mohamed Farouk; Mustafa AbdulAzim

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0341905

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Fine-Tuning Arabic Large Language Models for improved multi-turn dialogue: A blueprint for synthetic data generation and benchmarking

Ahmed Mahmoud Misbah ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: a.misbah5156@student.aast.edu

Affiliation College of Computing and Information Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1168-4896

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Mohamed Farouk,

Roles Supervision

Affiliation College of Computing and Information Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt
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Mustafa AbdulAzim

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Computing and Information Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt
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Fine-Tuning Arabic Large Language Models for improved multi-turn dialogue: A blueprint for synthetic data generation and benchmarking

Ahmed Mahmoud Misbah,
Mohamed Farouk,
Mustafa AbdulAzim

Published: February 12, 2026
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0341905

About the Authors

Ahmed Mahmoud Misbah

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: a.misbah5156@student.aast.edu

Affiliation College of Computing and Information Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1168-4896

Mohamed Farouk

Roles Supervision

Affiliation College of Computing and Information Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Alexandria, Egypt

Mustafa AbdulAzim

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Computing and Information Technology, Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport, Cairo, Egypt

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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