Logical Data Augmentation for Debiased Zero-Shot Stance Detection

  • Yinghan Cheng
  • , Shufeng Hao
  • , Chongyang Shi*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

We propose a novel knowledge enhancement zero-shot stance detection method, which employs LLMs to construct data augmentation based on Wikipedia’s background knowledge and uses Causal debiasing techniques to calibrate the LLM bias. First, the method retrieves, filters and summarizes relevant Wikipedia knowledge using topic modeling and LLMs, while enhancing text comprehension through LLM-based paraphrasing. Second, a logical Chain-of-Thought module is employed to generate coherent augmented data by deriving logical expressions from text-target pairs, in order to address the limitations, such as the lack of logical relevance and the insufficient generalization ability in data augmentation. Finally, the method introduces causal counterfactual debiasing theory with a calibration network to mitigate LLM biases while improving generalization. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method achieves superior performance over the state-of-the-art baselines.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNeural Information Processing - 32nd International Conference, ICONIP 2025, 2025, Proceedings
EditorsTadahiro Taniguchi, Chi Sing Andrew Leung, Tadashi Kozuno, Junichiro Yoshimoto, Mufti Mahmud, Maryam Doborjeh, Kenji Doya
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages196-212
Number of pages17
ISBN (Print)9789819540907
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2026
Externally publishedYes
Event32nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2025 - Okinawa, Japan
Duration: 20 Nov 202524 Nov 2025

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume2754 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference32nd International Conference on Neural Information Processing, ICONIP 2025
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityOkinawa
Period20/11/2524/11/25

Keywords

  • Causal debiasing
  • Chain-of-Thought
  • Data augmentation
  • Zero-shot stance detection

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