Confidence-Credibility Aware Weighted Ensembles of Small LLMs Outperform Large LLMs in Emotion Detection

arXiv — cs.LGMonday, December 22, 2025 at 5:00:00 AM
  • A new study has introduced a confidence-weighted, credibility-aware ensemble framework for emotion detection using small transformer-based large language models (sLLMs) like BERT, RoBERTa, and DistilBERT. This approach minimizes parameter convergence while leveraging the unique biases of each model, achieving a macro F1 score of 93.5% on the DAIR-AI dataset, outperforming large language models (LLMs).
  • This development is significant as it demonstrates that smaller, architecturally diverse models can achieve superior performance in emotion detection tasks, challenging the prevailing notion that larger models are inherently better.
  • The findings highlight a growing trend in AI research that emphasizes the importance of model diversity and robustness, particularly in addressing issues like adversarial vulnerabilities and bias in language models, which are critical for ensuring ethical AI deployment in sensitive applications.
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