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Hyperbolic Neural Networks (2018) (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: They build hyperbolic versions of standard neural network layers—logistic regression, feed-forward, and recurrent—so text can be embedded and classified in curved space that fits tree-like data better than flat space. On sentence tasks, these embeddings matched or beat flat-space ones.

Abstract · Hyperbolic Neural Networks

Hyperbolic spaces have recently gained momentum in the context of machine learning due to their high capacity and tree-likeliness properties. However, the representational power of hyperbolic geometry is not yet on par with Euclidean geometry, mostly because of the absence of corresponding hyperbolic neural network layers. This makes it hard to use hyperbolic embeddings in downstream tasks. Here, we bridge this gap in a principled manner by combining the formalism of Möbius gyrovector spaces with the Riemannian geometry of the Poincaré model of hyperbolic spaces. As a result, we derive hyperbolic versions of important deep learning tools: multinomial logistic regression, feed-forward and recurrent neural networks such as gated recurrent units. This allows to embed sequential data and perform classification in the hyperbolic space. Empirically, we show that, even if hyperbolic optimization tools are limited, hyperbolic sentence embeddings either outperform or are on par with their Euclidean variants on textual entailment and noisy-prefix recognition tasks.

Octavian-Eugen Ganea, Gary Bécigneul, Thomas Hofmann
arXiv:1805.09112 · cs.LG, stat.ML · submitted May 23, 2018 · updated Jun 28, 2018
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