Rabab Alkhalifa
2026
Optimizing What We Trust: Reliability-Guided QUBO Selection of Multi-Agent Weak Framing Signals for Arabic Sentiment Prediction
Rabab Alkhalifa
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script
Rabab Alkhalifa
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on NLP for Languages Using Arabic Script
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.