GHI: Graphormer over Conditioned Hypergraph Incidence for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
Yu Du, Wenlong Zhu, Xingze Li, Chenglong Cao, Jing Wang, Yukun Ma · May 21, 2026 · Citations: 0
How to use this page
Low trustUse this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.
Best use
Background context only
What to verify
Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.
Evidence quality
Low
Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.
Abstract
Aspect-based sentiment analysis (ABSA) requires models to bind sentiment evidence to the correct aspect, making it a natural testbed for fine-grained structural reasoning. We introduce GHI, a Graphormer-over-Conditioned-Hypergraph-Incidence framework that is designed as an incidence-based structural reasoning layer built on a bipartite topology. GHI represents diverse linguistic and semantic evidence as token--hyperedge incidence relations, allowing different structural signals to be incorporated through a unified interface. Extensive experiments on six standard ABSA benchmarks show that GHI outperforms all baselines on the SemEval domains, and multi-seed evaluations show stable improvements over strong DeBERTa. Further experiments show that with only 247M parameters, GHI approaches the performance of 11B Flan-T5 based methods on the ISE benchmark. Moreover, it demonstrates strong robustness on the challenging ARTS datasets, maintaining highly competitive performance where traditional models degrade. These results demonstrate that compact structural reasoning remains a valuable alternative to scale-driven approaches for fine-grained tasks.