This is the TensorFlow implementation based on the paper, "Hierarchical Attention Networks for Document Classification" .

There are a few issues at the moment,

• It does not support mini batch at the moment. There is an issue regarding nested while_loop opened to track root cause of the issue.
• The notebook provides an example of applying HAN to learn from 20 news group dataset. The performance on testing data set is pretty bad. The reason could be the model was not trained on the entirety of the training set. What's even more intriguing is using the GloVe word embeddings out of the box actually produces very bad results, even on training data set.

Gotcha,

• The original paper does not use cross-entropy as the Loss function, instead it uses the negative sum of the logarithm of the probability corresponding to the correct class label.
• There was an error in the previous implementation that treated each setence in a document separately. However they should be considered as a whole: the final state of RNN run of one sentence should be the the input state of the next sentence.