Journal of Information Systems and Informatics
Vol 8 No 3 (2026): June

Class-Level Behavior Analysis under Metric Disagreement in Imbalanced Multi-Label Indonesian Emotion Classification

Jahda Rusti Putri (Sriwijaya University)
Ermatita (Sriwijaya University)
Abdiansah (Sriwijaya University)



Article Info

Publish Date
25 Jun 2026

Abstract

This study aims to analyze class-level model behavior under metric disagreement in imbalanced multi-label Indonesian emotion classification, using the divergence between Macro F1 and Micro F1 as a diagnostic signal rather than a mere performance indicator. A machine-translated Indonesian version of the GoEmotions dataset, comprising approximately 58,000 samples across 28 fine-grained emotion categories, is used as the experimental setting. The translated dataset was not manually revalidated, and findings are scoped to this translated GoEmotions setting. Two transformer-based models are evaluated: IndoBERT, a monolingual Indonesian model, and DistilBERT, a multilingual model, both fine-tuned with class-specific threshold optimization. The results reveal opposing divergence patterns: IndoBERT achieves higher Micro F1 than Macro F1, indicating performance concentrated on high-frequency classes, while DistilBERT exhibits the reverse pattern, suggesting broader but less precise label activation. Per-class analysis further shows that most minority classes consistently fall into unstable or non-functional performance regimes across both models. This study concludes that aggregate metrics alone are insufficient for evaluating model behavior in imbalanced multi-label settings. A behavior-oriented interpretation framework for Macro–Micro F1 divergence and a regime-based class reliability categorization are proposed to support more structured and informative evaluation practices.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

isi

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT

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Journal-ISI is a scientific article journal that is the result of ideas, great and original thoughts about the latest research and technological developments covering the fields of information systems, information technology, informatics engineering, and computer science, and industrial engineering ...