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Large language models are typically trained densely: all parameters are updated with respect to all inputs. This requires synchronization of billions of parameters across thousands of GPUs. We introduce a simple but effective method to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Suchin Gururangan , Margaret Li , Mike Lewis , Weijia Shi , Tim Althoff , Noah A. Smith , Luke Zettlemoyer

We propose a geometric algorithm for topic learning and inference that is built on the convex geometry of topics arising from the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model and its nonparametric extensions. To this end we study the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-31 Mikhail Yurochkin , XuanLong Nguyen

This paper presents an algorithm for the unsupervised learning of latent variable models from unlabeled sets of data. We base our technique on spectral decomposition, providing a technique that proves to be robust both in theory and in…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-05 Matteo Ruffini , Marta Casanellas , Ricard Gavaldà

We present LDAExplore, a tool to visualize topic distributions in a given document corpus that are generated using Topic Modeling methods. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is one of the basic methods that is predominantly used to generate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-07-24 Ashwinkumar Ganesan , Kiante Brantley , Shimei Pan , Jian Chen

Recently, considerable research effort has been devoted to developing deep architectures for topic models to learn topic structures. Although several deep models have been proposed to learn better topic proportions of documents, how to…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-05 He Zhao , Lan Du , Wray Buntine , Mingyuan Zhou

In this paper, we propose guaranteed spectral methods for learning a broad range of topic models, which generalize the popular Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). We overcome the limitation of LDA to incorporate arbitrary topic correlations,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Forough Arabshahi , Animashree Anandkumar

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a prominent generative probabilistic model used for uncovering abstract topics within document collections. In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of augmenting topic models with Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Mengze Hong , Chen Jason Zhang , Di Jiang

Nowadays, data analysis has become a problem as the amount of data is constantly increasing. In order to overcome this problem in textual data, many models and methods are used in natural language processing. The topic modeling field is one…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Zekeriya Anil Guven , Banu Diri , Tolgahan Cakaloglu

Manually determining concepts present in a group of questions is a challenging and time-consuming process. However, the process is an essential step while modeling a virtual learning environment since a mapping between concepts and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Laura O. Moraes , Carlos Eduardo Pedreira

Much of human knowledge sits in large databases of unstructured text. Leveraging this knowledge requires algorithms that extract and record metadata on unstructured text documents. Assigning topics to documents will enable intelligent…

Advances in topic modeling have yielded effective methods for characterizing the latent semantics of textual data. However, applying standard topic modeling approaches to sentence-level tasks introduces a number of challenges. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Ruey-Cheng Chen , Reid Swanson , Andrew S. Gordon

Deep learning has become an indispensable part of life, such as face recognition, NLP, etc., but the training of deep model has always been a challenge, and in recent years, the complexity of training data and models has shown explosive…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-18 Sheng Huang

There has been an increasingly popular trend in Universities for curriculum transformation to make teaching more interactive and suitable for online courses. An increase in the popularity of online courses would result in an increase in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Nikhil Fernandes , Alexandra Gkolia , Nicolas Pizzo , James Davenport , Akshar Nair

Recent advances in meta-learning has led to remarkable performances on several few-shot learning benchmarks. However, such success often ignores the similarity between training and testing tasks, resulting in a potential bias evaluation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-28 Cuong Nguyen , Thanh-Toan Do , Gustavo Carneiro

In latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), topics are multinomial distributions over the entire vocabulary. However, the vocabulary usually contains many words that are not relevant in forming the topics. We adopt a variable selection method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Dongwoo Kim , Yeonseung Chung , Alice Oh

Standard LDA model suffers the problem that the topic assignment of each word is independent and word correlation hence is neglected. To address this problem, in this paper, we propose a model called Word Related Latent Dirichlet Allocation…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Xun Wang

Developing efficient and scalable algorithms for Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is of wide interest for many applications. Previous work has developed an O(1) Metropolis-Hastings sampling method for each token. However, the performance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-03-03 Jianfei Chen , Kaiwei Li , Jun Zhu , Wenguang Chen

A conversational system needs to know how to switch between topics to continue the conversation for a more extended period. For this topic detection from dialogue corpus has become an important task for a conversation and accurate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Haider Khalid , Vincent Wade

Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is a popular topic modeling technique in academia but less so in industry, especially in large-scale applications involving search engine and online advertising systems. A main underlying reason is that the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Yi Wang , Xuemin Zhao , Zhenlong Sun , Hao Yan , Lifeng Wang , Zhihui Jin , Liubin Wang , Yang Gao , Ching Law , Jia Zeng

This paper proposes a topic modeling method that scales linearly to billions of documents. We make three core contributions: i) we present a topic modeling method, Tensor Latent Dirichlet Allocation (TLDA), that has identifiable and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-14 Sara Kangaslahti , Danny Ebanks , Jean Kossaifi , Anqi Liu , R. Michael Alvarez , Animashree Anandkumar