Ahmed Shafin Ruhan
Author directory2026
Routing Is Not Enough: Diagnosing Intra-Adapter Subspace Contention in MoE+LoRA Fine-Tuning
Mehreen Hossain Chowdhury | Nowshin Mahjabin | Ahmed Shafin Ruhan | MD Azam Hossain | Abu Raihan Mostofa Kamal | Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Mehreen Hossain Chowdhury | Nowshin Mahjabin | Ahmed Shafin Ruhan | MD Azam Hossain | Abu Raihan Mostofa Kamal | Md Tahmid Rahman Laskar
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2026
Multi-domain fine-tuning often combines MoE routing with LoRA, assuming that token-level routing separates domain-specific updates. We test this assumption in MoE+LoRA using Python code paired with biomedical text and mathematical reasoning. Although these domains show near-disjoint expert routing, adding biomedical data substantially increases code perplexity, indicating that routing separation alone may not prevent negative transfer. To localize the failure, we introduce Jaccard routing overlap and adapter-gradient cosine similarity, which measure expert sharing and update compatibility, respectively. These diagnostics indicate that interference arises mostly from nearly orthogonal domain gradients competing within the same low-rank adapter subspace. We address this issue with SpawnLoRA, which dynamically adds gated sub-adapters inside MoE experts when adapter-level contention is detected, while keeping the router fixed. We evaluate SpawnLoRA on Phi-tiny-MoE-instruct and OLMoE-1B-7B across multiple mixture settings and find that it effectively reduces negative transfer compared with standard and rank-adaptive LoRA. These results demonstrate that structural separation inside experts provides benefits beyond routing or rank expansion alone.
2025
Human–LLM Benchmarks for Bangla Dialect Translation: Sylheti and Chittagonian on the BanglaCHQ-Summ Corpus
Nowshin Mahjabin | Ahmed Shafin Ruhan | Mehreen Hossain Chowdhury | Md Fahim | Md. Azam Hossain
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2025)
Nowshin Mahjabin | Ahmed Shafin Ruhan | Mehreen Hossain Chowdhury | Md Fahim | Md. Azam Hossain
Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2025)
Millions in Bangladesh speak Sylheti and Chittagonian (Chatgaiyya) dialects, yet most public health guidance exists only in Standard Bangla, which creates barriers and safety risks. Ad-hoc translation further harms comprehension, while challenges such as scarce data, non-standard spelling, medical terms, numerals, and idioms make accurate translation difficult. We present BanglaCHQ-Prantik, the first benchmark for this setting, extending BanglaCHQ-Summ with human gold references from 17 native translators. We evaluate Qwen 2.5 3B, Gemma 3 1B, GPT-4o mini, and Gemini 2.5 Flash under zero-shot, one-shot, five-shot, and chain-of-thought prompts, using BLEU, ROUGE-1/2/L, and METEOR. Closed-source models (GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5) lead overall, with Gemini 2.5 Flash being strongest. Few-shot prompting helps especially for Sylheti, though errors persist with terminology, numerals, and idioms. The dataset is designed to support both NLP research and public health communication by enabling reliable translation across regional Bangla dialects. To our knowledge, this is the first medical-domain dataset for Sylheti/Chittagonian.