Do We Still Need Humans in the Loop? Comparing Human and LLM Annotation in Active Learning for Hostility Detection
arXiv:2604. 13899v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Instruction-tuned LLMs can annotate thousands of instances at low cost.
arXiv:2604. 13899v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Instruction-tuned LLMs can annotate thousands of instances at low cost.
The paper presents an instruction‑tuned large language model (LLM) based on Qwen3 that is fine‑tuned for hate speech mitigation by unifying 36 English hate speech datasets. The authors show that this generalist LLM achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on in‑domain benchmarks and delivers significant gains in cross‑domain and cross‑lingual generalization, outperforming specialist encoder‑based classifiers.
arXiv:2511. 14117v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Supervised classifiers output a distribution over classes but are typically trained against a single label obtained by collapsing multiple annotators into a majority vote.
Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate impressive performance across a wide range of general NLP tasks; however, their effectiveness in sensitive domains, such as hate speech detection, remains less...
arXiv:2606. 08718v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Deep Active Learning (DAL) effectively reduces human annotation costs, its efficacy is constrained by human annotation errors.
arXiv:2606. 28772v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hate speech annotation pipelines routinely collapse annotator disagreement into majority vote labels before training.
arXiv:2608. 09209v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Neural language models trained on large crowdsourced corpora frequently exploit spurious surface patterns tied to target labels without true linguistic or causal relevance, boosting benchmark performance while failing on adversarial or out-of-distribution inputs.
The paper introduces WSF-ARG+, a new dataset that pairs hate speech with check‑worthiness annotations, and presents an LLM‑in‑the‑loop framework to streamline the annotation process. Experiments with 12 open‑weight large language models demonstrate that the framework cuts human effort while maintaining annotation quality. The study also shows that incorporating check‑worthiness labels improves hate‑speech detection performance, boosting macro‑F1 scores for large models by up to 0.213 and averaging 0.154 across models.
arXiv:2601.14172v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We study neural multi-label classification under severe label imbalance through sentence-level detection of the 19 refined Schwartz human val...
arXiv:2607. 18358v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Document classification is a solved problem in the laboratory and an unsolved one in the enterprise.
Neural language models trained on large crowdsourced corpora frequently exploit spurious surface patterns tied to target labels without true linguistic or causal relevance, boosting benchmark performance while failing on adversarial or out-of-distribution inputs. Existing approaches either require manual specification of the feature vocabulary or automate discovery only partially, leaving the gap between dataset-level correlation and model-level exploitation unaddressed.
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to annotate datasets for training smaller, task‑specialized models such as named entity recognition (NER). However, current fine‑tuning processes ignore the annotation noise introduced by LLMs, leading to degraded performance, and existing noise‑robust losses fail to handle the heterogeneous nature of NER noise (e.g., missing mentions vs. type errors). The authors propose error‑type‑aware loss reweighting, which applies separate reweighting rules for different erroneous token types, improving F1 scores by 0.8–2.0 percentage points on average and up to 4.6 points on Wikigold at 24.1% noise.