Fine-tuned Arabic student advisor for Qassim University. Two variants: Qwen2.5-1.5B (lightweight, 986MB) and ALLaM-7B by SDAIA (higher quality, 4.3GB). Trained on 15,903 Q&A pairs from official university documents. Apache-2.0 licensed.

qu-llm-assistant

Arabic-native AI assistant fine-tuned to answer student questions about Qassim University policies, regulations, and services.

Model Variants

Variant	Base Model	Size	Training Data	Ollama
v1 (default)	Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct	986 MB	15,903 Q&A pairs	`wesamhamad/qu-llm-assistant`
v2 (ALLaM)	ALLaM-7B-Instruct (SDAIA)	4.3 GB	12,320 Q&A pairs (2024-2026)	`wesamhamad/qu-llm-assistant-allam`

v1 is lightweight and fast — ideal for quick responses on consumer hardware
v2 uses Saudi Arabia’s ALLaM model by SDAIA — better Arabic quality, trained exclusively on recent (2024-2026) university documents

Both variants use GGUF Q4_K_M quantization and are licensed under Apache 2.0.

Quick Start

# Lightweight variant (Qwen 1.5B — fast, ~1 GB)
ollama run wesamhamad/qu-llm-assistant

# Arabic-native variant (ALLaM 7B — higher quality, ~4.3 GB)
ollama run wesamhamad/qu-llm-assistant-allam

Training Data

Source corpus: 262 PDF documents + 800+ HTML pages from qu.edu.sa
15,903 Q&A pairs (v1) generated with multi-stage quality filtering
12,320 Q&A pairs (v2) filtered to 2024-2026 documents only
Quality pipeline: Deduplication, OCR artifact removal, garbled text detection, semantic similarity filtering, length checks
Coverage: Admissions, study regulations, examinations, discipline, cooperative training, student services, graduation, academic advising, transfers, complaints, and graduate studies

Fine-tuning

Property	v1 (Qwen)	v2 (ALLaM)
Method	LoRA via Unsloth	LoRA via Unsloth
LoRA config	rank=16, alpha=32	rank=16, alpha=32
Epochs	3	1
Hardware	Google Colab T4 (16 GB)	Google Colab T4 (16 GB)
Training time	~2 hours	~30 minutes

Example Prompts

Prompt	Category
ما هي شروط القبول في جامعة القصيم؟	Admissions
كم ساعة أقدر أسجل في الفصل كحد أقصى؟	Study Regulations
ما عقوبة الغش في الاختبارات النهائية؟	Discipline
وش متطلبات التدريب التعاوني وكيف أسجل فيه؟	Cooperative Training
كيف أقدم على التخرج وما هي الشروط المطلوبة؟	Graduation
ما هي شروط التحويل بين الكليات داخل الجامعة؟	Transfers
كيف أقدم شكوى أو تظلم على درجة في مادة؟	Complaints
ما هي الخدمات التي تقدمها عمادة شؤون الطلاب؟	Student Services

RAG Integration

For best results, pair this model with the full RAG pipeline:

18,505 document chunks indexed in ChromaDB
BGE-M3 embeddings for multilingual semantic search
Gradio chat UI with source citations and confidence scores

Also Available On

HuggingFace: wesam3/qu-llm-assistant | wesam3/qu-llm-assistant-allam
GitHub: wesamhamad/qassim-gpt

Limitations

Answers are based on training data from 2024-2026 documents and may not reflect the latest policy changes
The model may occasionally generate plausible-sounding but inaccurate information
Best used as a supplementary tool alongside official university channels
Optimized for Qassim University context; may not generalize well to other institutions
Responses should be treated as informational guidance, not official university decisions

License

Apache 2.0

Author

Qassim University — Deanship of Information Technology / wesamhamad