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CNM: An Interpretable Complex-valued Network for Matching

10 Apr 2019NAACL 2019 6arXiv:1904.05298archive 2025-07-28

Qiuchi Li, Benyou Wang, Massimo Melucci

This paper seeks to model human language by the mathematical framework of quantum physics. With the well-designed mathematical formulations in quantum physics, this framework unifies different linguistic units in a single complex-valued vector space, e.g. words as particles in quantum states and sentences as mixed systems. A complex-valued network is built to implement this framework for semantic matching. With well-constrained complex-valued components, the network admits interpretations to explicit physical meanings. The proposed complex-valued network for matching (CNM) achieves comparable performances to strong CNN and RNN baselines on two benchmarking question answering (QA) datasets.

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