Analysis of GraphSum's Attention Weights to Improve the Explainability of Multi-Document Summarization

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The document analyzes the explainability of GraphSum, an abstractive multi-document summarization model, by examining its attention weights. It finds that GraphSum's attention weights from later decoding layers correlate more strongly with the relevance of input text segments, improving explainability. It also finds that GraphSum performs better when using paragraphs rather than sentences as input for the news domain, as paragraphs aid structure rather than topic separation for news articles. The document concludes that attention weights and expert annotations may provide better insight into abstractive summarization than ROUGE scores alone.

Analysis of GraphSum’s Attention
Weights to Improve the
Explainability of Multi-Document
Summarization
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M.L. Hickmann, F. Wurzberger, M. Hoxhalli, A. Lochner, J. Töllich and A. Scherp 1
M.L. Hickmann, F. Wurzberger, M. Hoxhalli, A. Lochner,
J. Töllich and A. Scherp

Extractive vs. Abstractive MDS
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Input Documents
Model
Summary
Model
Extractive:
Abstractive:

Abstractive Graph-based MDS
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Documents
Model
Summary
Sentences
Explainability ?

Research Questions
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Model1
Sentences Paragraphs
Model2
Quality?
Documents
Model
Summary
Explainability?

GraphSum
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Source: Li et al. “Leveraging Graph to Improve Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization” (2020)

Textual Unit Comparison
M.L. Hickmann, F. Wurzberger, M. Hoxhalli, A. Lochner, J. Töllich and A. Scherp

Build TF-IDF
Graph
Train
GraphSum
Model
Evaluate
Performance
Approach for Textual Units Comparison
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Pre-Processing
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EXTRACTION
TRUNCATION
/
PADDING
TF-IDF
GRAPH
Build TF-IDF
Graph
Train
GraphSum
Model
Evaluate
Performance

GraphSum Training Procedure
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Build TF-IDF
Graph
Train
GraphSum
Model
Evaluate
Performance
 Architecture and hyper-parameters as suggested by
Li et. al “Leveraging Graph to Improve Abstractive Multi-Document Summarization” (2020)
 Use similarity graph generated by pre-processing
 Use multiple batch-sizes
 Same number of input tokens
 Train / validation / test split

ROUGE Score
 ROUGE-2: Overlapping bi-grams
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 ROUGE-L: Longest common subsequence
 Final score based on F-score as proposed by
Chin-Yew Lin, “ROUGE: A Package for Automatic Evaluation of Summaries” (2004)
Reference Reference
Candidate Candidate
Build TF-IDF
Graph
Train
GraphSum
Model
Evaluate
Performance

Explainability Analysis
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Approach for Explainability Improvement
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Data Sets
MultiNews WikiSum
Sentence vs Paragraphs x
Explainability Analysis x x
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MultiNews:
Human written news summaries from professionals (60.000 Documents)
WikiSum:
Wikipedia articles and their references as MDS task (2.3 Million Arcticles)

Results: Textual Unit Comparison
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Sentences vs Paragraphs
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MultiNews

Usage of Paragraphs in News Domain
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MultiNews

Results: Explainability Analysis
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Attention Weights Correlation
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Decoding Layer Multi-Heads

Correlation between Attention Weights and Reference Metric
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MultiNews
Layer 6 (High Correlation)
Reference Metric
Attention
Weights
Reference Metric
Attention
Weights
Layer 3 (Low Correlation)

Positional Bias (MultiNews)
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Conclusion
 Paragraphs perform better than sentences for news domain
 Paragraphs are used as structural aid, not for topic separation
 Other domains may show different behaviour
 Attention weights improve explainability of MDS
 Attention weights provide source origin information
 Latter decoding layers more suitable
 ROUGE score might not be fully applicable as metric for abstractive MDS
 ROUGE score not suitable for e.g., paraphrased sentences
 Expert annotated source information could provide better insights
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