Comparative Analysis of BERT and GPT for Conflict-Related Multiclass Label Classification from Multi-Label Ground Truth
# Comparative Analysis of BERT and GPT for Classifying Crisis News with Sudan Conflict as an Example 🚀
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## Overview
This project compares Multi-Label Classification (MLC) and Single-Label Classification from Multi-Label Ground Truth (SL-MLG) for conflict-related news using BERT and GPT-based large language models (LLMs). The evaluation includes:
- Fine-tuned BERT models (standard and hyperparameter-tuned)
- GPT models using Zero-shot, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), and RAG with In-Context Learning (ICL)
## Key Results
### **MLC Collective Experimental Results**
| Algorithm | Model | Runtime | F1-score |
|-----------------|-------------------|-----------|------------|
| **RAG ICL** | Llama3.1-70b | 3m 30s | 67.00% |
| **RAG** | Llama3.1-70b | 2m 30s | 68.80% |
| **Zero-Shot** | Llama3.3-70b | 1m 31s | 62.75% |
| **BERT (tuned)**| bert-base-uncased | 187m 45s | 63.01% |
| **BERT (tuned)**| bert-large-uncased| 1350m 55s | **68.90%** |
| **BERT** | bert-base-uncased | 9m 43s | 62.85% |
| **BERT** | bert-large-uncased| 14m 55s | 54.62% |
### **SL-MLG Collective Experimental Results**
| Algorithm | Model | Runtime | Accuracy |
|-----------------|-------------------|-----------|------------|
| **RAG ICL** | Llama3.3-70b | 3m 12s | **90.70%** |
| **RAG ICL** | Llama3.1-70b | 3m 14s | **90.70%** |
| **RAG** | Llama3.3-70b | 1m 44s | 86.05% |
| **Zero-Shot** | Llama3.3-70b | 40s | 76.74% |
| **BERT (tuned)**| bert-base-uncased | 145m 18s | 74.42% |
| **BERT (tuned)**| bert-large-uncased| 1243m 28s | 83.72% |
| **BERT** | bert-base-uncased | 10m 5s | 76.74% |
| **BERT** | bert-large-uncased| 28m 31s | 7 …