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Optimizing What We Trust: Reliability-Guided QUBO Selection of Multi-Agent Weak Framing Signals for Arabic Sentiment Prediction

Computation and Language 2026-03-06 v1

Abstract

Framing detection in Arabic social media is difficult due to interpretive ambiguity, cultural grounding, and limited reliable supervision. Existing LLM-based weak supervision methods typically rely on label aggregation, which is brittle when annotations are few and socially dependent. We propose a reliability-aware weak supervision framework that shifts the focus from label fusion to data curation. A small multi-agent LLM pipeline, two framers, a critic, and a discriminator, treats disagreement and reasoning quality as epistemic signals and produces instance-level reliability estimates. These estimates guide a QUBO-based subset selection procedure that enforces frame balance while reducing redundancy. Intrinsic diagnostics and an out-of-domain Arabic sentiment transfer test show that the selected subsets are more reliable and encode non-random, transferable structure, without degrading strong text-only baselines.

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@article{arxiv.2603.04416,
  title  = {Optimizing What We Trust: Reliability-Guided QUBO Selection of Multi-Agent Weak Framing Signals for Arabic Sentiment Prediction},
  author = {Rabab Alkhalifa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.04416},
  year   = {2026}
}