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New AraSSM model offers efficient Arabic language processing

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Researchers have introduced AraSSM, a new bidirectional Mamba encoder specifically designed for Arabic masked language modeling. This model aims to overcome the quadratic scaling limitations of traditional Transformer encoders by utilizing a selective state-space model (SSM) for more efficient sequence modeling. AraSSM was pretrained on a combined corpus of Arabic Wikipedia and CulturaX, and evaluated on several Arabic NLU benchmarks, showing competitive or superior performance compared to existing Transformer-based models on tasks like sentiment classification and named entity recognition. AI

IMPACT Introduces a more efficient architecture for processing long Arabic text sequences, potentially improving performance on downstream NLP tasks.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Ahmed Amine Aliane, Hassina Aliane, Nasredine Semmar ·

    AraSSM: A bidirectional state-space encoder for Arabic masked language modeling

    arXiv:2608.08256v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained Transformer encoders such as AraBERT, MARBERT, and CAMeLBERT have become the standard backbone for Arabic natural language understanding, but their self-attention mechanism scales quadratically with sequence length, which…

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