Compressive Summarization — Joint Sparse Optimization
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Real-World Analogy (News Editor’s Dilemma)
A newspaper editor must write a front-page headline and summary from a long article. Not only does she pick the most important sentences, but she also shortens them by cutting unnecessary words — all while preserving the essence of the story.
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Use: Jointly perform sentence selection (ℓ₂,₁ regularization on
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Why: To select representative sentences and simultaneously compress them for better readability and information density.
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Compressive summarization is like a newspaper editor's dilemma. When creating a front-page summary from a long article, the editor must both select the most important sentences and compress them by removing unnecessary words, all while preserving the story's essence. This dual process involves matrix D for the original document, matrix A for sentence selection, and matrix R for compression, resulting in the final summary RA.
The mathematical framework consists of a joint optimization problem with three essential components. The reconstruction error term ensures fidelity to the original document D. The selection regularization with lambda-one promotes sparse sentence selection through the mixed norm on matrix A. The compression regularization with lambda-two encourages word-level sparsity in each sentence through L-one norms on matrix R rows. Together, these matrices D, R, and A define the complete compressive summarization process.
The reconstruction error term uses the Frobenius norm to measure how well the matrix product RA approximates the original document D. In this example, matrix R compresses sentences by selecting important words, while matrix A selects which sentences to include. The multiplication RA gives us the compressed summary, and the difference D minus RA shows the reconstruction error. Minimizing this squared Frobenius norm ensures our summary preserves the essential information from the original document.
The sentence selection regularization uses the mixed ℓ₂,₁ norm on matrix A. This norm computes the ℓ₂ norm within each sentence row, then sums these values using the ℓ₁ norm across sentences. This promotes group sparsity, meaning entire sentence rows become zero for unselected sentences, or non-zero for selected ones. In this example, sentences 1 and 3 are selected with non-zero row norms, while sentences 2 and 4 are eliminated with zero norms. The parameter lambda-one controls how aggressively we enforce sentence selection sparsity.
The sentence compression regularization applies ℓ₁ norm to each row of matrix R, promoting sparsity within individual sentences. Each row Rᵢ corresponds to one sentence, and sparse entries effectively remove unnecessary words. In this example, the compression matrix R shows how different sentences are compressed by zeroing out certain word positions. The sum of all row ℓ₁ norms gives the total compression penalty. Parameter lambda-two controls the compression level - higher values create more aggressive word removal, leading to shorter but potentially less informative sentences.