MIL-BERT is a neural network algorithm that classifies large texts by selecting relevant excerpts, inspired by multiple instance learning. It scales to samples with nearly 1 million tokens and has been evaluated on seven datasets, achieving state‑of‑the‑art results on three long‑text tasks such as political bias detection, trigger warning identification, and author demographic inference. The model also generalizes from weakly‑labeled text bags to accurately classify smaller instances.
By John Cadigan, Dayne Freitag, Eric Yeh
arXiv:2609.24219v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Traditionally, the reliability of news publishers is assessed by expert organisations that evaluate editorial practices, transparency and factual stand...
By John Bianchi, Manuel Pratelli, Fabio Pinelli, Marinella Petrocchi
arXiv:2510.15125v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Social media platforms play a pivotal role in shaping political discourse, but the scale and rapid evolution of online content make systemati...
By Alexander Brady, Tunazzina Islam
The paper investigates the coherence of probabilistic forecasts produced by language models, particularly when users rely on them for life decisions involving uncertain events. Using a de Finetti-based method, the authors extract forecasts from language models about stock‑return events and compute the maximum Dutch‑book profit via linear programming, a metric of incoherence that does not require observed outcomes. The study finds significant incoherence, especially when events have complex logical relationships or when irrelevant context is present, and suggests that alternative training strategies could improve probabilistic coherence.
The paper investigates the coherence of probabilistic forecasts produced by language models, particularly in the context of life‑decision support. Using a de Finetti‑based method, the authors elicit forecasts for events derived from stock return data and compute the maximum Dutch‑book profit via linear programming, which quantifies incoherence. They find significant incoherence, especially when events have complex logical relationships or when irrelevant context is present, and suggest that alternative training strategies could improve coherence.
By Isaiah Andrews, Suproteem Sarkar
arXiv:2609.27165v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to measure public value orientations from long social media posts, yet such posts often mix backgr...
By Yuhe Wu, Rui Qian, Guangyu Wang, Yuran Chen, Yuanchao Zhu, Junjie Yang, Zhengheng Li, Jiulin Cai, Tianyi Zhang, Zihan Dong, Jiaxin Liu, Yujie Chen, Guang Zhang
arXiv:2604. 14575v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Marketing research often relies on parameters estimated from costly human-generated data, such as conjoint survey responses, purchase decisions, and field experiment outcomes.
By Cheng Lu, Mengxin Wang, Dennis J. Zhang, Heng Zhang
arXiv:2606.18389v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have become an effective tool for synthetic data generation, including for low-resource languages, where generated dat...
By Jan Cegin, Daniil Gurgurov, Yusser Al Ghussin, Simon Ostermann
The paper explores using large language models (LLMs) as AI respondents to convert policy documents into structured survey responses. It introduces a long-context in‑context learning pipeline that maps policy text to predefined survey categories such as policy instruments, target groups, and thematic areas, and includes a secondary LLM validation step. Evaluation on a multi‑country dataset shows high agreement (84‑95%) with human responses for structured indicators, though free‑text fields differ, indicating that hybrid human‑AI workflows can enhance policy monitoring efficiency while still requiring human oversight.
By Carolyn Cole, Matthias Deschryvere, Toqeer Ehsan, Arash Hajikhani
The paper introduces a large corpus of about 160,000 Brazilian Portuguese financial news articles to support Natural Language Processing research in this domain. It presents initial benchmarks for a weakly supervised multi‑class classification task using semantic similarity, evaluating cosine similarity, K‑Nearest Neighbors (KNN), and FAISS‑based nearest‑neighbor search with multilingual embeddings. Results show that KNN performs best on manually labeled data (47.3% accuracy, 31.9% F1), while LLM‑annotated data yields similar accuracy but much lower F1 scores due to label imbalance and noise.
By Leomax Bandeira, Gabriel Aguiar, Dalton C\'ezane Gomes Valadares, Luiz Pereira, Helder Fernando de Ara\'ujo Oliveira, Gustavo Xavier, Andson M. Balieiro
arXiv:2610.09063v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-label topic assignment for user-generated content (UGC) -- including product reviews and buyer-seller conversations -- poses unique scalability c...
By Sourabh Kasliwal, Shubhranshu Singh
The paper investigates how to detect enthymemes—arguments with unstated premises or conclusions—in controversial political tweets about vaccination and immigration. Despite extensive fine‑tuning, models achieve an F1 score of only about 0.67, prompting the authors to propose new evaluation metrics that compare predictions to the full distribution of annotator votes and a model that directly predicts this distribution. The study also shows that models rely on explicit argumentative structure, often missing implicit links that readers must infer, raising concerns for content moderation systems that depend on majority labels.
By Martial Pastor, Nelleke Oostdijk