Causality Guided Representation Learning for Cross-Style Hate Speech Detection

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07707v1
• Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 02:41:37 GMT
• Title: Causality Guided Representation Learning for Cross-Style Hate Speech Detection
• Authors: Chengshuai Zhao, Shu Wan, Paras Sheth, Karan Patwa, K. Selçuk Candan, Huan Liu,
• Abstract summary: The proliferation of online hate speech poses a significant threat to the harmony of the web.<n>Existing hate speech detection models fail to generalize effectively across diverse stylistic variations.<n>We propose CADET, a causal representation learning framework that disentangles hate speech into interpretable latent factors.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: The proliferation of online hate speech poses a significant threat to the harmony of the web. While explicit hate is easily recognized through overt slurs, implicit hate speech is often conveyed through sarcasm, irony, stereotypes, or coded language -- making it harder to detect. Existing hate speech detection models, which predominantly rely on surface-level linguistic cues, fail to generalize effectively across diverse stylistic variations. Moreover, hate speech spread on different platforms often targets distinct groups and adopts unique styles, potentially inducing spurious correlations between them and labels, further challenging current detection approaches. Motivated by these observations, we hypothesize that the generation of hate speech can be modeled as a causal graph involving key factors: contextual environment, creator motivation, target, and style. Guided by this graph, we propose CADET, a causal representation learning framework that disentangles hate speech into interpretable latent factors and then controls confounders, thereby isolating genuine hate intent from superficial linguistic cues. Furthermore, CADET allows counterfactual reasoning by intervening on style within the latent space, naturally guiding the model to robustly identify hate speech in varying forms. CADET demonstrates superior performance in comprehensive experiments, highlighting the potential of causal priors in advancing generalizable hate speech detection.

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