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New SICI Index Reveals LLM Stance Detection Complexity Shifts

Researchers have developed SICI, a new seven-dimensional index to measure the semantic-pragmatic complexity of text for LLM stance detection. This index predicts LLM accuracy better than existing methods and reveals that LLM errors shift predictably with increasing complexity, moving from over-attribution to abstention. The study found that common interventions like prompting and retrieval do not fully overcome this high-complexity bottleneck across models including GPT-3.5, GPT-4o-mini, DeepSeek-V3, and GPT-4o. AI

IMPACT This research provides a new metric for evaluating LLM performance on complex tasks, potentially guiding future model development and fine-tuning strategies.

RANK_REASON This is a research paper detailing a new index and findings about LLM behavior.

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  1. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Fuqiang Niu, Bowen Zhang ·

    SICI: A Semantic-Pragmatic Complexity Index Reveals Regime Shifts in LLM Stance Detection

    arXiv:2606.13189v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Prompt-based LLMs are increasingly used for stance detection, but harder examples are not always repaired by clearer instructions, reasoning prompts, retrieval, or debate. We introduce SICI (Stance Inference Complexity Index), a sev…

  2. arXiv cs.CL TIER_1 English(EN) · Bowen Zhang ·

    SICI: A Semantic-Pragmatic Complexity Index Reveals Regime Shifts in LLM Stance Detection

    Prompt-based LLMs are increasingly used for stance detection, but harder examples are not always repaired by clearer instructions, reasoning prompts, retrieval, or debate. We introduce SICI (Stance Inference Complexity Index), a seven-dimensional diagnostic measure of the semanti…