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Ensemble transformer with post-hoc explanations for depression emotion and severity detection.

Sazzadul Islam, Rezaul Haque, Mahbub Alam Khan, Arafath Bin Mohiuddin, Md Ismail Hossain Siddiqui, Zishad Hossain Limon, Katura Gania Khushbu, S M Masfequier Rahman Swapno, Md Redwan Ahmed, Abhishek Appaji

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Sazzadul IslamDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, BRAC University, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh.
Rezaul HaqueDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, East West University, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh.
Mahbub Alam KhanDepartment of Management Information System, Pacific State University, 3424 Wilshire Boulevard, 12th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90010, USA.
Arafath Bin MohiuddinDepartment of Engineering and Technology, Westcliff University, Irvine, CA 92614, USA.
Md Ismail Hossain SiddiquiEngineering/Industrial Management, Westcliff University, Irvine, CA 92614, USA.
Zishad Hossain LimonDepartment of Computer Science, Westcliff University, Irvine, CA 92614, USA.
Katura Gania KhushbuDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, East West University, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh.
S M Masfequier Rahman SwapnoDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Business and Technology, Dhaka 1216, Bangladesh.
Md Redwan AhmedDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, East West University, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh.
Abhishek AppajiDepartment of Medical Electronics Engineering, B.M.S. College of Engineering, Bull Temple Road, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560019, India.

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Abstract

This study presents an ensemble transformer framework for detecting depression-related emotions and classifying their severity in social media text. It addresses the need for scalable and trustworthy AI solutions in mental health by integrating four transformer models. The DepTformer-XAI-SV model uses a weighted soft-voting mechanism based on validation macro-F1 scores to improve accuracy and incorporates LIME to highlight key linguistic features associated with depression. The framework is evaluated on two benchmark datasets: DepressionEmo, with eight emotion classes, and the merged depression severity detection (MDSD), with four severity levels, both sourced from social media. To address class imbalance, we use class-weighted cross-entropy, stratified k-fold splits, and minority-aware sampling. Results show that the model surpasses individual transformer models and traditional methods, achieving macro-F1 scores of 80.44% for DepressionEmo and 79.88% for MDSD, significantly improving minority class detection. Lastly, a web application has been developed for interactive and interpretable inference.

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