Assessing how hyperparameters impact Large Language Models' sarcasm detection performance

Montgomery Gole, Andriy Miranskyy
4/8/2025
cs.CL

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Sarcasm detection is challenging for both humans and machines. This work explores how model characteristics impact sarcasm detection in OpenAI's GPT, and Meta's Llama-2 models, given their strong natural language understanding, and popularity. We evaluate fine-tuned and zero-shot models across various sizes, releases, and hyperparameters. Experiments were conducted on the political and balanced (pol-bal) portion of the popular Self-Annotated Reddit Corpus (SARC2.0) sarcasm dataset. Fine-tuned performance improves monotonically with model size within a model family, while hyperparameter tuning also impacts performance. In the fine-tuning scenario, full precision Llama-2-13b achieves state-of-the-art accuracy and $F_1$-score, both measured at 0.83, comparable to average human performance. In the zero-shot setting, one GPT-4 model achieves competitive performance to prior attempts, yielding an accuracy of 0.70 and an $F_1$-score of 0.75. Furthermore, a model's performance may increase or decline with each release, highlighting the need to reassess performance after each release.

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@article{gole2025assessing,
  title  = {Assessing how hyperparameters impact Large Language Models' sarcasm detection performance},
  author = {Montgomery Gole and Andriy Miranskyy},
  year   = {2025},
  eprint = {2504.06166},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url    = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.06166v2}
}

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