SyntaxMind at BLP-2025 Task 1: Leveraging Attention Fusion of CNN and GRU for Hate Speech Detection

This paper describes our system used in the BLP-2025 Task 1: Hate Speech Detection. We participated in Subtask 1A and Subtask 1B, addressing hate speech classification in Bangla text. Our approach employs a unified architecture that integrates BanglaBERT embeddings with multiple parallel processing branches based on GRUs and CNNs, followed by attention and dense layers for final classification. The model is designed to capture both contextual semantics and local linguistic cues, enabling robust performance across subtasks. The proposed system demonstrated high competitiveness, obtaining 0.7345 micro F1-Score (2nd place) in Subtask 1A and 0.7317 micro F1-Score (5th place) in Subtask 1B.

• Publication year

  2026

• Venue

  arXiv.org

• Publication date

  2026-01-09

• Fields of study

  Linguistics, Computer Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.48550/arXiv.2601.06306arXiv 2601.06306
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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