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RDS Fusion: Hybrid neuro-symbolic gating with compressed CoT for zero-shot irony detection

Researchers introduce the Robust Dual-Signal (RDS) Fusion framework, a hybrid neuro-symbolic architecture that compresses Chain-of-Thought reasoning without supervised fine-tuning for irony and sarcasm detection in social media text. Evaluated on TweetEval (N=734) and iSarcasm, the zero-shot system matches fine-tuned BERTweet performance and outperforms supervised SemEval transformer ensembles on the imbalanced iSarcasm dataset. A statistical ablation shows that only the full concurrent fusion of all three signals yields a validated improvement, with individual components providing no significant standalone gain.