CAMeLBERT (CAMeL-Lab/bert-base-arabic-camelbert-mix) fine-tuned on HalluScoring 2026 Task 1.1 using an NLI framing: [CLS] gold_answer [SEP] model_answer [SEP], treating hallucination detection as "does the model's answer entail/contradict the gold answer." Internally this is run S02 — the experiment that established NLI framing as the single biggest lever in this task (+5.6pp clean-dev AUC-ROC over the QA-framed halluscoring-camelbert-qa). Every model after this one uses the same NLI framing.

Not submitted to the competition — kept as an internal experiment and as a component of the S23/S24v/S25v ensembles. See SYSTEM_WRITEUP.md for the officially-submitted models.

How to Use

python

import torch
from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSequenceClassification

model_id = "HassanB4/halluscoring-camelbert-nli"
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_id)
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained(model_id)
model.eval()

gold_answer = "..."
model_answer = "..."

inputs = tokenizer(gold_answer, model_answer, truncation=True, max_length=512, return_tensors="pt")
with torch.no_grad():
    logits = model(**inputs).logits
    prob_hallucinated = torch.softmax(logits, dim=-1)[0, 1].item()

print(f"hallucinated={int(prob_hallucinated > 0.5)}, score={prob_hallucinated:.4f}")

Training

Parameter	Value
Base model	`CAMeL-Lab/bert-base-arabic-camelbert-mix`
Input format	`nli` (`gold_answer` + `model_answer`)
Max sequence length	512
Batch size	16
Epochs	5
Learning rate	2e-5
Warmup ratio	0.1
Weight decay	0.01
Loss	cross-entropy
Seed	42

Evaluation

Split	AUC-ROC	F1-Macro
Dev (official, n=1300)	0.9574	0.9081
Dev (clean, unseen-question subset, n=800)	0.9272	—

Clean-dev AUC-ROC is our internal generalization estimate, restricted to the ~800 dev rows whose questions never appear in training (see SYSTEM_WRITEUP.md §"Key finding" for why).

Limitations

Not evaluated on the hidden test set — internal dev-only experiment. Used as a component of the S23, S24v, and S25v soft-vote ensembles.

Citation

bibtex

@inproceedings{namaa2026halluscoring,
    title={{NAMAA at HalluScoring 2026: NLI-Framed BERT Classifiers and Ensembling for Model-Agnostic Arabic Hallucination Detection}},
    author={[AUTHOR NAMES TBD]},
    year={2026},
    booktitle={Proceedings of ArabicNLP 2026},
    note={HalluScoring 2026 Shared Task, Track 1}
}