2 papers
cs.CL2026
AraModernBERT: Transtokenized Initialization and Long-Context Encoder Modeling for Arabic
Omar Elshehy, Omer Nacar, Abdelbasset Djamai +3
Encoder-only transformer models remain widely used for discriminative NLP tasks, yet recent architectural advances have largely focused on English. In this work, we present AraMode…
cs.CV2025
QARI-OCR: High-Fidelity Arabic Text Recognition through Multimodal Large Language Model Adaptation
Ahmed Wasfy, Omer Nacar, Abdelakreem Elkhateb +4
The inherent complexities of Arabic script; its cursive nature, diacritical marks (tashkeel), and varied typography, pose persistent challenges for Optical Character Recognition (O…