Zero-shot data citation function classification using transformer-based large language models (LLMs)

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Autores principales: Byers, Neil, Zaidi, Ali, Skye, Valerie, Beecroft, Chris, Fagnan, Kjiersten
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Publicado: 2025
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author Byers, Neil
Zaidi, Ali
Skye, Valerie
Beecroft, Chris
Fagnan, Kjiersten
author_facet Byers, Neil
Zaidi, Ali
Skye, Valerie
Beecroft, Chris
Fagnan, Kjiersten
contents Efforts have increased in recent years to identify associations between specific datasets and the scientific literature that incorporates them. Knowing that a given publication cites a given dataset, the next logical step is to explore how or why that data was used. Advances in recent years with pretrained, transformer-based large language models (LLMs) offer potential means for scaling the description of data use cases in the published literature. This avoids expensive manual labeling and the development of training datasets for classical machine-learning (ML) systems. In this work we apply an open-source LLM, Llama 3.1-405B, to generate structured data use case labels for publications known to incorporate specific genomic datasets. We also introduce a novel evaluation framework for determining the efficacy of our methods. Our results demonstrate that the stock model can achieve an F1 score of .674 on a zero-shot data citation classification task with no previously defined categories. While promising, our results are qualified by barriers related to data availability, prompt overfitting, computational infrastructure, and the expense required to conduct responsible performance evaluation.
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spellingShingle Zero-shot data citation function classification using transformer-based large language models (LLMs)
Byers, Neil
Zaidi, Ali
Skye, Valerie
Beecroft, Chris
Fagnan, Kjiersten
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Efforts have increased in recent years to identify associations between specific datasets and the scientific literature that incorporates them. Knowing that a given publication cites a given dataset, the next logical step is to explore how or why that data was used. Advances in recent years with pretrained, transformer-based large language models (LLMs) offer potential means for scaling the description of data use cases in the published literature. This avoids expensive manual labeling and the development of training datasets for classical machine-learning (ML) systems. In this work we apply an open-source LLM, Llama 3.1-405B, to generate structured data use case labels for publications known to incorporate specific genomic datasets. We also introduce a novel evaluation framework for determining the efficacy of our methods. Our results demonstrate that the stock model can achieve an F1 score of .674 on a zero-shot data citation classification task with no previously defined categories. While promising, our results are qualified by barriers related to data availability, prompt overfitting, computational infrastructure, and the expense required to conduct responsible performance evaluation.
title Zero-shot data citation function classification using transformer-based large language models (LLMs)
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.02936