TELKOMNIKA (Telecommunication Computing Electronics and Control)
Vol 24, No 2: April 2026

Improving multilabel classification of hate speech and abusive language in Indonesian using MAML

Jasman Pardede (Institut Teknologi Nasional Bandung)
Ghixandra Julyaneu Irawadi (Institut Teknologi Nasional Bandung)
Rizka Milandga Milenio (Institut Teknologi Nasional Bandung)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Apr 2026

Abstract

This study investigates automated multi-label detection of hate speech and abusive language (HSAL) in Indonesian social media, addressing challenges of data imbalance, especially in minority labels. Two training approaches are compared: standard supervised learning and meta-learning using the model-agnostic meta-learning (MAML) algorithm. IndoBERTweet-BiGRU is adopted as the baseline model, while MAML is leveraged to enhance generalization and adaptability with limited training data. Both models are trained on a multilabel dataset with 13 HSAL categories exhibiting highly imbalanced distributions. The best supervised model achieved an F1-Micro of 84.02% and an F1-macro of 77.97%, whereas the best MAML-trained model reached 84.12% and 76.85%, respectively. Although the overall gap is small, MAML demonstrates notable improvements on minority classes such as hate speech (HS) physical, gender, and race, shown through higher F1-score and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUROC) values. These results highlight its strength in low-resource classification settings. This study is limited to Indonesian language and YouTube transcript contexts, and MAML incurs higher training complexity. Cultural and linguistic nuances also present potential bias in real-world use. Despite these constraints, the proposed system offers practical benefits by enabling fine-grained HSAL classification and supporting earlier detection of harmful online content.

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TELKOMNIKA

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Computer Science & IT

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