Shiyi Chen

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3 Papers

4.1CLApr 7
Turbulence-like 5/3 spectral scaling in contextual representations of language as a complex system

Zhongxin Yang, Chun Bao, Yuanwei Bin et al.

Natural language is a complex system that exhibits robust statistical regularities. Here, we represent text as a trajectory in a high-dimensional embedding space generated by transformer-based language models, and quantify scale-dependent fluctuations along the token sequence using an embedding-step signal. Across multiple languages and corpora, the resulting power spectrum exhibits a robust power law with an exponent close to $5/3$ over an extended frequency range. This scaling is observed consistently in contextual embeddings from both human-written and AI-generated text, but is absent in static word embeddings and is disrupted by randomization of token order. These results show that the observed scaling reflects multiscale, context-dependent organization rather than lexical statistics alone. By analogy with the Kolmogorov spectrum in turbulence, our findings suggest that semantic information is integrated in a scale-free, self-similar manner across linguistic scales, and provide a quantitative, model-agnostic benchmark for studying complex structure in language representations.

1.6LGOct 18, 2021
Graph Partner Neural Networks for Semi-Supervised Learning on Graphs

Langzhang Liang, Cuiyun Gao, Shiyi Chen et al.

Graph Convolutional Networks (GCNs) are powerful for processing graph-structured data and have achieved state-of-the-art performance in several tasks such as node classification, link prediction, and graph classification. However, it is inevitable for deep GCNs to suffer from an over-smoothing issue that the representations of nodes will tend to be indistinguishable after repeated graph convolution operations. To address this problem, we propose the Graph Partner Neural Network (GPNN) which incorporates a de-parameterized GCN and a parameter-sharing MLP. We provide empirical and theoretical evidence to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed MLP partner on tackling over-smoothing while benefiting from appropriate smoothness. To further tackle over-smoothing and regulate the learning process, we introduce a well-designed consistency contrastive loss and KL divergence loss. Besides, we present a graph enhancement technique to improve the overall quality of edges in graphs. While most GCNs can work with shallow architecture only, GPNN can obtain better results through increasing model depth. Experiments on various node classification tasks have demonstrated the state-of-the-art performance of GPNN. Meanwhile, extensive ablation studies are conducted to investigate the contributions of each component in tackling over-smoothing and improving performance.

1.6LGApr 13, 2021
Probing Negative Sampling Strategies to Learn GraphRepresentations via Unsupervised Contrastive Learning

Shiyi Chen, Ziao Wang, Xinni Zhang et al.

Graph representation learning has long been an important yet challenging task for various real-world applications. However, their downstream tasks are mainly performed in the settings of supervised or semi-supervised learning. Inspired by recent advances in unsupervised contrastive learning, this paper is thus motivated to investigate how the node-wise contrastive learning could be performed. Particularly, we respectively resolve the class collision issue and the imbalanced negative data distribution issue. Extensive experiments are performed on three real-world datasets and the proposed approach achieves the SOTA model performance.