Challenge: Existing models only address text classification problem in the euclidean space, which is not optimal . e.g., fear and terrified labels may not be differentiated in such space, harming performance .
Approach: They propose a framework that can integrate hyperbolic embeddings to improve the task . they learn label embeddements in the hyperbolical space and then add them to the framework .
Outcome: The proposed framework improves fine-grained emotion classification on two benchmark datasets with 3% improvement over previous state-of-the-art models.

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