Robust Dual-Signal Fusion: Hybrid Neuro-Symbolic Gating with Compressed Chain-of-Thought Refinement for Irony Detection in Social Media Texts

Small-scale Large Language Models (LLMs) natively default to literal semantic interpretations, making few-shot irony detection a persistent challenge in noisy, user-generated text. In this study, we show that, despite this limitation, inference from compact LLMs can still be effectively harnessed fo