arXiv Machine Learning By Aleesha Zainab, Muhammad Ahmed Khalid, Faheem Ullah Khan, Asifullah Khan

Benchmarking Classical and Transformer-Based Models for Document Sensitivity Classification

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The paper introduces Strategic 16K, a 16,000‑document corpus of diplomatic cables from WikiLeaks’ Public Library of US Diplomacy, designed to eliminate label leakage. It benchmarks six models—both classical machine learning and transformer-based—on this leakage‑controlled dataset, finding BERT and ELECTRA top performers while TF‑IDF with Logistic Regression offers strong accuracy at lower cost. This work provides the first fully reproducible sensitivity‑classification benchmark built under explicit leakage‑control conditions.

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