def prune_transformer(model, amount=0.3):
            for name, module in model.named_modules():
                if isinstance(module, torch.nn.Linear):
                    prune.l1_unstructured(module, name='weight', amount=amount)
                    prune.remove(module, 'weight')
            return model

        # Efficient Multilingual NMT
        class LightTranslator(nn.Module):
            def __init__(self, vocab_size, d_model=512):
                super().__init__()
                self.encoder = TransformerEncoder(d_model)
                self.decoder = TransformerDecoder(d_model)

            def forward(self, src, tgt):
                memory = self.encoder(src)
                return self.decoder(tgt, memory)
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Ahmed Amine ALIANE

Algiers, Algeria

Research Engineer in NLP specializing in model efficiency and multilingual systems, with full-stack, Linux systems, and infrastructure expertise.

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Publications

Scientific articles in NLP and Text Processing.

AraSSM: A Bidirectional State-Space Encoder for Arabic Masked Language Modeling
August 2026 Ahmed Amine Aliane, Hassina Aliane, Nasredine Semmar arXiv preprint
[NLP] [State Space Models] [Mamba] [Masked Language Modeling] [Arabic]

A bidirectional Mamba/SSM encoder pretrained from scratch for Arabic via masked language modeling, reaching near-parity with base-sized Transformer encoders on consumer-grade hardware.

Efficient Multilingual Neural Machine Translation via Corpus-Driven Vocabulary Pruning: An English-Arabic Case Study
August 2026 Ahmed Amine Aliane, Nasredine Semmar, Hassina Aliane arXiv preprint
[NLP] [Machine Translation] [Vocabulary Pruning] [Model Compression] [Arabic]

A framework combining corpus-driven vocabulary pruning and targeted fine-tuning to compress multilingual NMT models by 60% without performance loss.

Neural Machine Translation for the Arabic-English Language Pair
March 2024 Ahmed Amine Aliane ICPAIS (International Conference on Pattern Analysis and Intelligent Systems)
[NLP] [Machine Translation] [Neural Networks] [Arabic]

Implementation and evaluation of modern Neural Machine Translation models for the Arabic-English language pair.

Sarcasm Detection in Arabic Tweets: A Comparison Between Deep Learning and Pre-trained Transformer-based Models
June 2022 R Bouguesri, K Habelhames, H Aliane, Ahmed Amine Aliane ISIA
[NLP] [Sarcasm Detection] [Twitter] [Arabic]

A study on detecting sarcasm in dialectal Arabic tweets using machine learning techniques.

Evaluating Siamese Architecture Neural Models for Arabic Textual Similarity and Plagiarism Detection
May 2020 Ahmed Amine Aliane ISIA
[NLP] [Siamese Networks] [Plagiarism Detection] [Arabic]

Implementation of Siamese neural networks to detect textual similarity and plagiarism in Arabic documents.

A Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) approach for plagiarism detection in Arabic documents
January 2018 Imene Setha, Hassina Aliane, Ahmed Amine Aliane International Conference
[NLP] [LSA] [Plagiarism Detection] [Arabic]

Exploring Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) for identifying plagiarism in Arabic text.

A genetic algorithm feature selection based approach for Arabic sentiment classification
November 2016 Ahmed Amine Aliane IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA)
[NLP] [Sentiment Analysis] [Genetic Algorithms] [Arabic]

Research on sentiment classification for Arabic text using genetic algorithms to optimize performance.

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