arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 23

Designing and Analysing Argument Mining Pipelines: Towards a Comprehensive Assessment

The paper introduces a meta‑study that reviews state‑of‑the‑art end‑to‑end argument mining (AM) pipelines. It proposes a triple‑perspective framework—linguistic, computational, and domain—to analyze how these pipelines model, compute, and incorporate domain knowledge into argument structures. The authors also outline a general design for the linguistic and computational aspects, aiming to standardize methodology descriptions and enable clearer comparisons among AM approaches.

By Siddharth Bhargava, Sara Tonelli, Patricia Mart\'in-Rodilla
arXiv Computation and Language
4d ago

Layer-Informed Fine-Tuning via Three-Stage Functional Segmentation of LLMs

The paper proposes Layer-Informed Fine-Tuning (LIFT), a method that identifies and updates only the most functionally critical layers of large language models (LLMs) using a bottleneck identification mechanism based on sensitivity analysis. By focusing on layers that handle conceptualization, reasoning, and textualization, LIFT aims to accelerate training and enhance performance on reasoning tasks. Experiments demonstrate that this selective fine-tuning approach both speeds up the training process and yields significant performance gains.

By Junning Shao, Siwei Wang, Zhixuan Fang