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Severity-Aware Weighted Loss for Arabic Medical Text Generation

Ahmed Alansary, Molham Mohamed, Ali Hamdi

Published

Apr 7, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

0/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

15% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

Signals refreshed

Apr 7, 2026

Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

Background context only.

What to verify

Read the full paper before copying any benchmark, metric, or protocol choices.

Main weakness

This paper looks adjacent to evaluation work, but not like a strong protocol reference.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Weak or implicit
Validate from full paper
Usefulness for eval research
0/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

Abstract

Large language models have shown strong potential for Arabic medical text generation; however, traditional fine-tuning objectives treat all medical cases uniformly, ignoring differences in clinical severity. This limitation is particularly critical in healthcare settings, where errors in severe cases contain higher clinical risk. In this work, we propose a severity-aware weighted loss for fine-tuning Arabic language models on medical complaint-response data. The method depends on soft severity probabilities to dynamically scale token-level loss contributions during optimization, thereby prioritizing clinically critical interactions without modifying model architectures. Experiments are conducted using the MAQA dataset, which provides Arabic medical complaints and trusted human responses. Severity labels and probabilistic scores are automatically derived using a fine-tuned AraBERT-based classifier and incorporated exclusively at the loss level. The proposed approach is evaluated across ten Arabic large language models of varying architectures and parameter scales. While standard cross-entropy fine-tuning yields only modest improvements, severity-aware optimization consistently achieves larger gains. Using a balanced weighting configuration, performance improves from 54.04% to 66.14% for AraGPT2-Base, from 59.16% to 67.18% for AraGPT2-Medium, and from 57.83% to 66.86% for Qwen2.5-0.5B, with peak performance reaching 67.18%. Overall, severity-aware fine-tuning delivers improvements of up to 12.10% over non-fine-tuned baselines, demonstrating robust and architecture-consistent gains.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"Large language models have shown strong potential for Arabic medical text generation; however, traditional fine-tuning objectives treat all medical cases uniformly, ignoring differences in clinical severity."

Evaluation Modes

missing

None explicit

Validate eval design from full paper text.

"Large language models have shown strong potential for Arabic medical text generation; however, traditional fine-tuning objectives treat all medical cases uniformly, ignoring differences in clinical severity."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"Large language models have shown strong potential for Arabic medical text generation; however, traditional fine-tuning objectives treat all medical cases uniformly, ignoring differences in clinical severity."

Benchmarks / Datasets

missing

Not extracted

No benchmark anchors detected.

"Large language models have shown strong potential for Arabic medical text generation; however, traditional fine-tuning objectives treat all medical cases uniformly, ignoring differences in clinical severity."

Reported Metrics

missing

Not extracted

No metric anchors detected.

"Large language models have shown strong potential for Arabic medical text generation; however, traditional fine-tuning objectives treat all medical cases uniformly, ignoring differences in clinical severity."

Benchmarks and datasets

No benchmark or dataset names were extracted from the available abstract.

Reported metrics

No metric terms were extracted from the available abstract.

Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
Medicine
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
None
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

Large language models have shown strong potential for Arabic medical text generation; however, traditional fine-tuning objectives treat all medical cases uniformly, ignoring differences in clinical severity.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • Large language models have shown strong potential for Arabic medical text generation; however, traditional fine-tuning objectives treat all medical cases uniformly, ignoring differences in clinical severity.
  • This limitation is particularly critical in healthcare settings, where errors in severe cases contain higher clinical risk.
  • In this work, we propose a severity-aware weighted loss for fine-tuning Arabic language models on medical complaint-response data.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • In this work, we propose a severity-aware weighted loss for fine-tuning Arabic language models on medical complaint-response data.
  • Experiments are conducted using the MAQA dataset, which provides Arabic medical complaints and trusted human responses.
  • Using a balanced weighting configuration, performance improves from 54.04% to 66.14% for AraGPT2-Base, from 59.16% to 67.18% for AraGPT2-Medium, and from 57.83% to 66.86% for Qwen2.5-0.5B, with peak performance reaching 67.18%.

Why it matters for eval

  • Experiments are conducted using the MAQA dataset, which provides Arabic medical complaints and trusted human responses.

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    No clear evaluation mode extracted.

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    No benchmark/dataset anchor extracted from abstract.

  • Metric reporting is present

    No metric terms extracted.