AAAI 2023

Continual Graph Convolutional Network for Text Classification

A graph-learning paper for continual text classification, studying how graph convolutional models adapt as text data evolves.

Problem

A fixed document–token graph can classify documents seen during construction, yet struggle to incorporate new text. This limits the usefulness of an otherwise strong offline text classifier in a streaming system.

Approach

ContGCN updates the document–token graph for each batch during training and inference. An occurrence memory and a self-supervised contrastive objective support updates without requiring labels for each arriving document.

Evidence

The paper evaluates five public datasets and reports an 8.86% performance gain in a three-month A/B test on Huawei's public-opinion analysis system. This is the paper's task-performance result, not a revenue or conversion-rate claim.

Connection

The method illustrates learning over changing graph evidence. Later recommendation-graph work addresses different data and objectives, so this connection should not be read as a shared algorithm or a direct transfer result.

Sources

Bibliographic details

Authors
Tiandeng Wu, Qijiong Liu, Yi Cao, Yao Huang, Xiao-Ming Wu, Jiandong Ding
Venue
AAAI 2023
Status
Published
First published
2023-06-26