Decoding Fake Narratives in Spreading Hateful Stories: A Dual-Head RoBERTa Model with Multi-Task Learning

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Main Authors: Bhaskar, Yash, Bahad, Sankalp, Krishnamurthy, Parameswari
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author Bhaskar, Yash
Bahad, Sankalp
Krishnamurthy, Parameswari
author_facet Bhaskar, Yash
Bahad, Sankalp
Krishnamurthy, Parameswari
contents Social media platforms, while enabling global connectivity, have become hubs for the rapid spread of harmful content, including hate speech and fake narratives \cite{davidson2017automated, shu2017fake}. The Faux-Hate shared task focuses on detecting a specific phenomenon: the generation of hate speech driven by fake narratives, termed Faux-Hate. Participants are challenged to identify such instances in code-mixed Hindi-English social media text. This paper describes our system developed for the shared task, addressing two primary sub-tasks: (a) Binary Faux-Hate detection, involving fake and hate speech classification, and (b) Target and Severity prediction, categorizing the intended target and severity of hateful content. Our approach combines advanced natural language processing techniques with domain-specific pretraining to enhance performance across both tasks. The system achieved competitive results, demonstrating the efficacy of leveraging multi-task learning for this complex problem.
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spellingShingle Decoding Fake Narratives in Spreading Hateful Stories: A Dual-Head RoBERTa Model with Multi-Task Learning
Bhaskar, Yash
Bahad, Sankalp
Krishnamurthy, Parameswari
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
I.2.7; I.2.11; H.3.3
Social media platforms, while enabling global connectivity, have become hubs for the rapid spread of harmful content, including hate speech and fake narratives \cite{davidson2017automated, shu2017fake}. The Faux-Hate shared task focuses on detecting a specific phenomenon: the generation of hate speech driven by fake narratives, termed Faux-Hate. Participants are challenged to identify such instances in code-mixed Hindi-English social media text. This paper describes our system developed for the shared task, addressing two primary sub-tasks: (a) Binary Faux-Hate detection, involving fake and hate speech classification, and (b) Target and Severity prediction, categorizing the intended target and severity of hateful content. Our approach combines advanced natural language processing techniques with domain-specific pretraining to enhance performance across both tasks. The system achieved competitive results, demonstrating the efficacy of leveraging multi-task learning for this complex problem.
title Decoding Fake Narratives in Spreading Hateful Stories: A Dual-Head RoBERTa Model with Multi-Task Learning
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
I.2.7; I.2.11; H.3.3
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.16147