Using RL to Identify Divisive Perspectives Improves LLMs Abilities to Identify Communities on Social Media

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Autori principali: Mehta, Nikhil, Goldwasser, Dan
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author Mehta, Nikhil
Goldwasser, Dan
author_facet Mehta, Nikhil
Goldwasser, Dan
contents The large scale usage of social media, combined with its significant impact, has made it increasingly important to understand it. In particular, identifying user communities, can be helpful for many downstream tasks. However, particularly when models are trained on past data and tested on future, doing this is difficult. In this paper, we hypothesize to take advantage of Large Language Models (LLMs), to better identify user communities. Due to the fact that many LLMs, such as ChatGPT, are fixed and must be treated as black-boxes, we propose an approach to better prompt them, by training a smaller LLM to do this. We devise strategies to train this smaller model, showing how it can improve the larger LLMs ability to detect communities. Experimental results show improvements on Reddit and Twitter data, on the tasks of community detection, bot detection, and news media profiling.
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spellingShingle Using RL to Identify Divisive Perspectives Improves LLMs Abilities to Identify Communities on Social Media
Mehta, Nikhil
Goldwasser, Dan
Computation and Language
The large scale usage of social media, combined with its significant impact, has made it increasingly important to understand it. In particular, identifying user communities, can be helpful for many downstream tasks. However, particularly when models are trained on past data and tested on future, doing this is difficult. In this paper, we hypothesize to take advantage of Large Language Models (LLMs), to better identify user communities. Due to the fact that many LLMs, such as ChatGPT, are fixed and must be treated as black-boxes, we propose an approach to better prompt them, by training a smaller LLM to do this. We devise strategies to train this smaller model, showing how it can improve the larger LLMs ability to detect communities. Experimental results show improvements on Reddit and Twitter data, on the tasks of community detection, bot detection, and news media profiling.
title Using RL to Identify Divisive Perspectives Improves LLMs Abilities to Identify Communities on Social Media
topic Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00969