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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T PICT at SemEval-2026 Task 3: A Transformer-Based System for Dimensional Aspect-Aware Sentiment Regression with Weighted Layer Pooling
%A Bhalgat, Aditya
%A Jagtap, Omkar
%A Phakatkar, Anupama
%Y Kochmar, Ekaterina
%Y Ghosh, Debanjan
%Y North, Kai
%Y Komachi, Mamoru
%S Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026)
%D 2026
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C San Diego, California, USA
%@ 979-8-89176-414-9
%F bhalgat-etal-2026-pict
%X Team PICT’s submission for SemEval-2026 Task 3 (DimASR) tackles continuous valence and arousal prediction by heavily focusing on variance reduction and avoiding cross-domain negative transfer. We built strictly domain-isolated pipelines for the Laptop and Restaurant datasets using a RoBERTa-Large backbone. Our architecture extracts a rich feature hierarchy using weighted layer pooling, isolates local context with a [CLS]-driven aspect-aware attention module, and maps to the continuous space using a deep residual regression head. Regularized via R-Drop and SWA, our system achieved 3rd place in the Restaurant domain (RMSE: 1.195) and 9th in the Laptop domain (RMSE: 1.326).
%U https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.44/
%P 302-307

Markdown (Informal)

[PICT at SemEval-2026 Task 3: A Transformer-Based System for Dimensional Aspect-Aware Sentiment Regression with Weighted Layer Pooling](https://aclanthology.org/2026.semeval-1.44/) (Bhalgat et al., SemEval 2026)

• PICT at SemEval-2026 Task 3: A Transformer-Based System for Dimensional Aspect-Aware Sentiment Regression with Weighted Layer Pooling (Bhalgat et al., SemEval 2026)

ACL

• Aditya Bhalgat, Omkar Jagtap, and Anupama Phakatkar. 2026. PICT at SemEval-2026 Task 3: A Transformer-Based System for Dimensional Aspect-Aware Sentiment Regression with Weighted Layer Pooling. In Proceedings of the 20th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (2026), pages 302–307, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.