Mapping the Circumplex of Affect: Geometric Analysis of Emotion Representations via Hyperspherical Contrastive Learning (2026.acl-long)
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| Challenge: | Existing methods to induce circular emotion representations in language models are limited . elucidates trade-offs involved in applying circumplex models to deep learning architectures . |
| Approach: | They propose a method to induce circular emotion representations within language models via contrastive learning on a hypersphere. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method underperforms in high-dimensional settings and fine-grained classification. |
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