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Meysam Alizadeh1, Maël Kubli1, Zeynab Samei2
1Department of Political Science, University of Zurich, 8050 Zurich, Switzerland.
Journal of Computational Social Science
|December 23, 2024
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Summary
Fine-tuning open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) significantly boosts performance on political science text classification tasks, outperforming zero-shot models and offering a practical alternative to few-shot training.
Area of Science:
- Political Science
- Computational Social Science
- Natural Language Processing
Background:
- Open-source Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used for text analysis.
- Scholars require guidance on LLM performance for specific political science tasks.
- Establishing benchmarks for LLM effectiveness in social science research is crucial.
Purpose of the Study:
- To evaluate the performance of open-source LLMs in political science text classification.
- To compare zero-shot and fine-tuned LLM capabilities on tasks like stance, topic, and relevance.
- To provide a benchmark for LLM effectiveness and inform scholarly decision-making.
Main Methods:
- Assessed open-source LLMs using both zero-shot and fine-tuned approaches.
Main Results:
- Fine-tuning enhances open-source LLM performance, matching or exceeding zero-shot GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.
- Fine-tuned open-source LLMs still lag behind fine-tuned GPT-3.5.
- Fine-tuning is more effective than few-shot training with modest data.
Conclusions:
- Fine-tuned open-source LLMs are suitable for diverse text annotation applications in political science.
- The study provides a practical benchmark for LLM performance in social science research.
- A Python notebook is available to assist researchers in applying LLMs for text annotation.


