Table 13 Diagnostic analysis of instruction prompt sensitivity in Qwen2.5-1.5B-Instruct classification.

From: Qwen TextCNN and BERT models for enhanced multilabel news classification in mobile apps

Prompt type

Prompt template

Acc.

M-F1

\(\mu\)-F1

Specific

Please classify this automotive news article into the appropriate category. Return only the category ID

0.3064

0.0008

0.3064

Direct

Classify the following automotive news article. Return only the category ID

0.3063

0.0008

0.3063

Conditional

Given this automotive news article, determine its category. Return only the category ID

0.3025

0.0008

0.3025

Variant

What category does this automotive news article belong to? Return only the category ID

0.3064

0.0008

0.3064

Analytical

Analyze this automotive news and provide the category ID

0.2667

0.0008

0.2667

Performance variance (\(\sigma ^2\))

0.0002

0.0000

0.0002

Coefficient of variation

5.2%

0.0%

5.2%