In this work, we propose BertGCN, a model that combines large scale pretraining and transductive learning for text classification. BertGCN constructs a heterogeneous graph over the dataset and represents documents as nodes using BERT representations. By jointly training the BERT and GCN modules within BertGCN, the proposed model is able to leverage the advantages of both worlds: large-scale pretraining which takes the advantage of the massive amount of raw data and transductive learning which jointly learns representations for both training data and unlabeled test data by propagating label influence through graph convolution. Experiments show that BertGCN achieves SOTA performances on a wide range of text classification datasets. Code is available at https://github.com/ZeroRin/BertGCN.
@article{arxiv.2105.05727,
title = {BertGCN: Transductive Text Classification by Combining GCN and BERT},
author = {Yuxiao Lin and Yuxian Meng and Xiaofei Sun and Qinghong Han and Kun Kuang and Jiwei Li and Fei Wu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.05727},
year = {2022}
}