Community Norms in the Spotlight: Enabling Task-Agnostic Unsupervised Pre-Training to Benefit Online Social Media

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Autori principali: Hebert, Liam, Kopp, Lucas, Cohen, Robin
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author Hebert, Liam
Kopp, Lucas
Cohen, Robin
author_facet Hebert, Liam
Kopp, Lucas
Cohen, Robin
contents Modelling the complex dynamics of online social platforms is critical for addressing challenges such as hate speech and misinformation. While Discussion Transformers, which model conversations as graph structures, have emerged as a promising architecture, their potential is severely constrained by reliance on high-quality, human-labelled datasets. In this paper, we advocate a paradigm shift from task-specific fine-tuning to unsupervised pretraining, grounded in an entirely novel consideration of community norms. We posit that this framework not only mitigates data scarcity but also enables interpretation of the social norms underlying the decisions made by such an AI system. Ultimately, we believe that this direction offers many opportunities for AI for Social Good.
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spellingShingle Community Norms in the Spotlight: Enabling Task-Agnostic Unsupervised Pre-Training to Benefit Online Social Media
Hebert, Liam
Kopp, Lucas
Cohen, Robin
Social and Information Networks
Artificial Intelligence
Modelling the complex dynamics of online social platforms is critical for addressing challenges such as hate speech and misinformation. While Discussion Transformers, which model conversations as graph structures, have emerged as a promising architecture, their potential is severely constrained by reliance on high-quality, human-labelled datasets. In this paper, we advocate a paradigm shift from task-specific fine-tuning to unsupervised pretraining, grounded in an entirely novel consideration of community norms. We posit that this framework not only mitigates data scarcity but also enables interpretation of the social norms underlying the decisions made by such an AI system. Ultimately, we believe that this direction offers many opportunities for AI for Social Good.
title Community Norms in the Spotlight: Enabling Task-Agnostic Unsupervised Pre-Training to Benefit Online Social Media
topic Social and Information Networks
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02525