Batching many small graphs

  • Tree-LSTM [paper] [tutorial] [PyTorch code]: Sentences have inherent structures that are thrown away by treating them simply as sequences. Tree-LSTM is a powerful model that learns the representation by using prior syntactic structures such as a parse-tree. The challenge in training is that simply by padding a sentence to the maximum length no longer works. Trees of different sentences have different sizes and topologies. DGL solves this problem by adding the trees to a bigger container graph, and then using message-passing to explore maximum parallelism. Batching is a key API for this.

Tree-LSTM in DGL

Tree-LSTM in DGL