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# Rifai

**Research and Innovation Frontier in Artificial Intelligence**

Minimal, research-driven AI work — useful systems, clear interfaces, practical innovation.

[Website](https://rifailabs.com) · [Contact](mailto:naira@rifailabs.com) · [Swauti TTS Demo](https://swauti.rifailabs.com)

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## About

Rifai is built around a simple principle: build things that are actually useful.

We work across the full stack — from foundational research to production-ready systems — with a focus on language, reasoning, and human-centered AI interfaces.

## Research

Selected publications from the Rifai team:

| Paper | Venue | Year |
|-------|-------|------|
| [Harnessing Transfer Learning from Swahili: Advancing Solutions for Comorian Dialects](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.12143) | Deep Learning Indaba | 2024 |
| [Preserving Comorian Linguistic Heritage: Bidirectional Transliteration Between the Latin Alphabet and the Kamar-Eddine System](https://aclanthology.org/2025.latechclfl-1.2/) | LaTeCH-CLfL @ ACL 2025 | 2025 |
| [Datasets Creation and Empirical Evaluations of Cross-Lingual Learning on Extremely Low-Resource Languages: A Focus on Comorian Dialects](https://aclanthology.org/2024.law-1.14/) | LAW-XVIII @ EACL 2024 | 2024 |

> Full list on [Google Scholar](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9ED-kHsAAAAJ&hl=en)

## Work

We focus on three areas:

**Applied Research** — Prototypes and experiments at the intersection of research and engineering: models, datasets, and evaluation workflows.

**Language & Reasoning** — Exploration around large language models, structured reasoning, and robust evaluation.

**Human-Centered AI** — Product-oriented systems designed to be usable, interpretable, and well-scoped.

## Releases

This organization hosts:

- Models
- Datasets
- Demo spaces
- Internal experiments made public when ready

## Demos

**Swauti** — Our text-to-speech system. Try it at [swauti.rifailabs.com](https://swauti.rifailabs.com).

## Contact

For collaborations or early-stage work: [naira@rifailabs.com](mailto:naira@rifailabs.com)