Wassim Hamidouche

This study systematically evaluates Vision Mamba models for detecting AI-generated images, finding that while they show promise, their current strengths and limitations must be understood relative to established CNN, ViT, and VLM methods.

The paper introduces TukaBench, a culturally grounded jailbreak benchmark for seven African languages, demonstrating that prompting in African languages, especially with cultural adaptation, significantly reduces LLM refusal rates compared to English.