ExBigBang: A Dynamic Approach for Explainable Persona Classification through Contextualized Hybrid Transformer Analysis

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15364v1
• Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2025 08:45:04 GMT
• Title: ExBigBang: A Dynamic Approach for Explainable Persona Classification through Contextualized Hybrid Transformer Analysis
• Authors: Saleh Afzoon, Amin Beheshti, Nabi Rezvani, Farshad Khunjush, Usman Naseem, John McMahon, Zahra Fathollahi, Mahdieh Labani, Wathiq Mansoor, Xuyun Zhang,
• Abstract summary: In user-centric design, persona development plays a vital role in understanding user behaviour, capturing needs, segmenting audiences, and guiding design decisions.<n>We present ExBigBang, a hybrid text-tabular approach that uses transformer-based architectures to model rich contextual features for persona classification.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: In user-centric design, persona development plays a vital role in understanding user behaviour, capturing needs, segmenting audiences, and guiding design decisions. However, the growing complexity of user interactions calls for a more contextualized approach to ensure designs align with real user needs. While earlier studies have advanced persona classification by modelling user behaviour, capturing contextual information, especially by integrating textual and tabular data, remains a key challenge. These models also often lack explainability, leaving their predictions difficult to interpret or justify. To address these limitations, we present ExBigBang (Explainable BigBang), a hybrid text-tabular approach that uses transformer-based architectures to model rich contextual features for persona classification. ExBigBang incorporates metadata, domain knowledge, and user profiling to embed deeper context into predictions. Through a cyclical process of user profiling and classification, our approach dynamically updates to reflect evolving user behaviours. Experiments on a benchmark persona classification dataset demonstrate the robustness of our model. An ablation study confirms the benefits of combining text and tabular data, while Explainable AI techniques shed light on the rationale behind the model's predictions.

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