BanglaBERT DAPT — Bangla Depression Classifier (Sub-component of Multimodal System)

Project: Detecting Mental Health and Suicidal Tendencies on Social Media using Multimodal NLP
Institution: BRAC University, Department of CSE
Authors: Md. Nazim Hossain, Kazi Tarif Rahman, Raiseen Jahan Ritu, Ahmad Sameer

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Model Description

This is the depression severity sub-classifier that feeds into the multimodal fuzzy-logic risk combination system. It reads Bangla text and outputs a 4-class depression severity distribution, which is then combined with the suicide-severity model's output using fuzzy logic rules to produce a final risk level (Minimal / Low / Elevated / Critical).

Architecture: BanglaBERT (ELECTRA discriminator, 12L, 768H) fine-tuned on 4,897 Bangla depression severity posts after Domain-Adaptive Pretraining (DAPT) on 250,154 translated mental health Reddit posts.

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Performance (In-domain evaluation on the Bangla depression dataset)

Per-class F1:

Important caveat: This metric was evaluated on a test split of the same dataset the model was trained on (~80% overlap with training domain). It is a behaviour sanity check confirming the model functions correctly — not an unbiased held-out generalisation estimate. This is explicitly documented in the thesis.

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Role in the Multimodal System

Bangla text (meme OCR or raw text)
    → This model (depression classifier)
    → 4-class probability distribution [Minimum, Mild, Moderate, Severe]
         ↓
    Combined with suicide-severity model output
         ↓
    Fuzzy-logic risk layer (AND/OR rules)
         ↓
    Final risk level: Minimal / Low / Elevated / Critical

The model's full probability distribution (not just the top class) is used as input to the fuzzy-logic rules, allowing borderline cases to surface as partial risk signals rather than being clipped to a single hard label.

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Loading Instructions

Critical: Load the tokenizer from this repo directly. The checkpoint itself does not contain a fully saved tokenizer — the tokenizer files have been merged from the TAPT checkpoint used in the pipeline.

from transformers import AutoTokenizer, AutoModelForSequenceClassification
import torch

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("SrothJr/banglabert-dapt-depression-classifier")
model = AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained("SrothJr/banglabert-dapt-depression-classifier")
model.eval()

LABEL_MAP = {0: "Minimum", 1: "Mild", 2: "Moderate", 3: "Severe"}

text = "আমি খুব একা অনুভব করছি।"
inputs = tokenizer(text, return_tensors="pt", max_length=256, truncation=True, padding=True)

with torch.no_grad():
    logits = model(**inputs).logits
    probs = torch.softmax(logits, dim=-1)

predicted_idx = probs.argmax(dim=-1).item()
print(f"Predicted class: {LABEL_MAP[predicted_idx]}")
print(f"Probability distribution: {probs.squeeze().tolist()}")

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Training Details

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Limitations

• The 93.2% metric overlaps its training domain — treat as a sanity check, not a generalisation number.
• Performance on meme text (short, colloquial, OCR-extracted) has not been independently benchmarked.
• Not a clinical tool — outputs describe textual content, never a judgment about a real person.

Citation

Part of the thesis: Detecting Mental Health and Suicidal Tendencies on Social Media using Multimodal NLP
BRAC University, Department of CSE, 2026.