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We propose a neural network based approach for learning topics from text and image datasets. The model makes no assumptions about the conditional distribution of the observed features given the latent topics. This allows us to perform topic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-03-01 Gaurav Pandey , Ambedkar Dukkipati

Topic models have achieved significant successes in analyzing large-scale text corpus. In practical applications, we are always confronted with the challenge of model selection, i.e., how to appropriately set the number of topics. Following…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-02-18 Dehua Cheng , Xinran He , Yan Liu

Labeled Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LLDA) is an extension of the standard unsupervised Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithm, to address multi-label learning tasks. Previous work has shown it to perform in par with other…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-09-19 Yannis Papanikolaou , Grigorios Tsoumakas

This project demonstrated a methodology to estimating cooperate credibility with a Natural Language Processing approach. As cooperate transparency impacts both the credibility and possible future earnings of the firm, it is an important…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-28 Mohan Zhang , Zhichao Luo , Hai Lu

Topic models, such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), can be useful tools for the statistical analysis of document collections and other discrete data. The LDA model assumes that the words of each document arise from a mixture of topics,…

Applications · Statistics 2009-09-29 David M. Blei , John D. Lafferty

We consider the problem of distributed dictionary learning, where a set of nodes is required to collectively learn a common dictionary from noisy measurements. This approach may be useful in several contexts including sensor networks.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-04-15 Pierre Chainais , Cédric Richard

In this paper, we investigate the learning-augmented $k$-median clustering problem, which aims to improve the performance of traditional clustering algorithms by preprocessing the point set with a predictor of error rate $\alpha \in [0,1)$.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Kangke Cheng , Shihong Song , Guanlin Mo , Hu Ding

Clustering algorithms partition a dataset into groups of similar points. The clustering problem is very general, and different partitions of the same dataset could be considered correct and useful. To fully understand such data, it must be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 James M. Murphy , Sam L. Polk

Topic models are popular statistical tools for detecting latent semantic topics in a text corpus. They have been utilized in various applications across different fields. However, traditional topic models have some limitations, including…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Pritom Saha Akash , Trisha Das , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

In machine learning, no data point stands alone. We believe that context is an underappreciated concept in many machine learning methods. We propose Attention-Based Clustering (ABC), a neural architecture based on the attention mechanism,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Samuel Coward , Erik Visse-Martindale , Chithrupa Ramesh

In this paper, we propose a novel method for a sentence-level answer-selection task that is a fundamental problem in natural language processing. First, we explore the effect of additional information by adopting a pretrained language model…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Seunghyun Yoon , Franck Dernoncourt , Doo Soon Kim , Trung Bui , Kyomin Jung

The problem of searching for experts in a given academic field is hugely important in both industry and academia. We study exactly this issue with respect to a database of authors and their publications. The idea is to use Latent Semantic…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-11-26 Charanpal Dhanjal , Stéphan Clémençon

Language models achieve impressive performance on a variety of knowledge, language, and reasoning tasks due to the scale and diversity of pretraining data available. The standard training recipe is a two-stage paradigm: pretraining first on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Skyler Seto , Pierre Ablin , Anastasiia Filippova , Jiayuan Ye , Louis Bethune , Angelos Katharopoulos , David Grangier

The recent advancement of large language models has spurred a growing trend of integrating pre-trained language model (PLM) embeddings into topic models, fundamentally reshaping how topics capture semantic structure. Classical models such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Hanlin Xiao , Mauricio A. Álvarez , Rainer Breitling

Feature extraction has gained increasing attention in the field of machine learning, as in order to detect patterns, extract information, or predict future observations from big data, the urge of informative features is crucial. The process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-06 Despoina Christou

We propose a new algorithm for topic modeling, Vec2Topic, that identifies the main topics in a corpus using semantic information captured via high-dimensional distributed word embeddings. Our technique is unsupervised and generates a list…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-03-16 Ramandeep S Randhawa , Parag Jain , Gagan Madan

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-07-03 David Mimno , Matt Hoffman , David Blei

Topic modelling in Natural Language Processing uncovers hidden topics in large, unlabelled text datasets. It is widely applied in fields such as information retrieval, content summarisation, and trend analysis across various disciplines.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Saranzaya Magsarjav , Melissa Humphries , Jonathan Tuke , Lewis Mitchell

Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is widely used for unsupervised topic modelling on sets of documents. No temporal information is used in the model. However, there is often a relationship between the corresponding topics of consecutive…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-30 Werner van der Merwe , Herman Kamper , Johan du Preez

We study the problem of training personalized deep learning models in a decentralized peer-to-peer setting, focusing on the setting where data distributions differ between the clients and where different clients have different local…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Edvin Listo Zec , Ebba Ekblom , Martin Willbo , Olof Mogren , Sarunas Girdzijauskas