Sparse Structure Learning via Graph Neural Networks for Inductive Document Classification

Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been widely used for document classification. However, most existing methods are based on static word co-occurrence graphs without sentence-level information, which poses three challenges: (1) word ambiguity, (2) word synonymity, and (3) dynamic contextual dependency. To address these challenges, we propose a novel GNN-based sparse structure learning model for inductive document classification. Specifically, a document-level graph is initially generated by a disjoint union of sentence-level word co-occurrence graphs. Our model collects a set of trainable edges connecting disjoint words between sentences, and employs structure learning to sparsely select edges with dynamic contextual dependencies. Graphs with sparse structures can jointly exploit local and global contextual information in documents through GNNs. For inductive learning, the refined document graph is further fed into a general readout function for graph-level classification and optimization in an end-to-end manner. Extensive experiments on several real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed model outperforms most state-of-the-art results, and reveal the necessity to learn sparse structures for each document.

Authors

• Yinhua Piao
• Sangseon Lee
• Dohoon Lee Bioinformatics Institute, Seoul National University BK21 FOUR Intelligence Computing, Seoul National University
• Sun Kim Interdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, Seoul National University AIGENDRUG Co., Ltd. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University Interdisciplinary Program in Artificial Intelligence, Seoul National University

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