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Sparse Stochastic Inference for Latent Dirichlet allocation

Machine Learning 2012-07-03 v1 Machine Learning

Abstract

We present a hybrid algorithm for Bayesian topic models that combines the efficiency of sparse Gibbs sampling with the scalability of online stochastic inference. We used our algorithm to analyze a corpus of 1.2 million books (33 billion words) with thousands of topics. Our approach reduces the bias of variational inference and generalizes to many Bayesian hidden-variable models.

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@article{arxiv.1206.6425,
  title  = {Sparse Stochastic Inference for Latent Dirichlet allocation},
  author = {David Mimno and Matt Hoffman and David Blei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1206.6425},
  year   = {2012}
}

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Appears in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2012)

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