ToxiTrace: Gradient-Aligned Training for Explainable Chinese Toxicity Detection (2026.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Existing toxic content detection methods focus on sentence-level classification but fail to provide readable and contiguous toxic evidence spans. |
| Approach: | They propose an explainability-oriented method for Chinese toxic content detection methods . they refine saliency cues into fine-grained toxic spans with lightweight LLM guidance . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves classification accuracy and toxic span extraction while preserving efficient encoder-based inference and producing more coherent explanations. |
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