Reasoning for Hierarchical Text Classification: The Case of Patents

arXiv:2510.07167 · cs.CL · Submitted 2025-10-08 · Read on arXiv

cs.CL

Submitted: 2025-10-08

Updated: 2026-10-17

Comments: ACL 2026 Findings. 16 pages, 10 tables, 3 figures

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Reasoning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Explainability — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Hierarchical Classification — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Large Language Models (LLMs) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Reasoning for Hierarchical Classification — 1× in this paper
• Reinforcement Learning — 1× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning (RL) — 1× in this paper · explained in 25 episodes

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