Challenge: Hate speech detection is a challenging task, since hate messages are often expressed in subtle ways and with characteristics that may vary depending on the author.
Approach: They propose an unsupervised approach to learn embeddings for hate speech detection using Graph Auto-Encoders (GAE) they represent texts as nodes of a graph and use transformer layer and convolutional layer to encode them in low-dimensional space.
Outcome: The proposed method shows competitive results on small datasets.

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