AI RESEARCH

GATech at AbjadMed: Bidirectional Encoders vs. Causal Decoders: Insights from 82-Class Arabic Medical Classification

arXiv CS.AI

ArXi:2603.10008v1 Announce Type: cross This paper presents system description for Arabic medical text classification across 82 distinct categories. Our primary architecture utilizes a fine-tuned AraBERTv2 encoder enhanced with a hybrid pooling strategies, combining attention and mean representations, and multi-sample dropout for robust regularization.