Challenge: Hierarchical text classification models rely on capturing global label hierarchy, which contains static and redundant relationships.
Approach: They propose a method which captures hierarchical relationships without encoding global hierarchy . they use hyperbolic geometry to model instance-specific local relationships using Lorentz model .
Outcome: The proposed model captures hierarchical relationships without encoding global hierarchy . the proposed model is superior to baseline methods on four benchmark datasets .

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