Research Article

CNFRD: A Few-Shot Rumor Detection Framework via Capsule Network for COVID-19

Table 2

Notations and explanations.

NotationExplanation

A post from an online social media platform
-th character in a post
Prediction function
-dimensional matrix-vector
Number of classes contained in an episode
Number of instances in each class that are labeled
Number of instances in each class that are unlabelled
Vectorized representation of the -th character in a post
Query matrix-vector
Key matrix-vector
Value matrix-vector
Dimension of a query and key vector
Weight matrices corresponding to the -th header
Weight
Bias value
Storage cell state of BiLSTM
Temporary cell state of BiLSTM
Hidden state of BiLSTM
Forgetting gate of BiLSTM
Memory gate of BiLSTM
Output gate of BiLSTM
Logistic regression function
hidden states of the whole BiLSTM
HDHistorical rumor dataset
EDEpidemic rumor dataset
Hidden state
Support set vector
Query set vector
Number of neurons in the output capsule
Number of neurons (vector length) in each capsule
Prediction vector in the Capsnet
Transformation matrix in the Capsnet
Connection weight in the Capsnet
Coupling coefficient in the Capsnet
Output of the -th upper capsule in the Capsnet
General representation of the -th historical rumor class
Epidemic rumor query sample
A sample of the same category as
A sample of a different category from