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In the internet era there has been an explosion in the amount of digital text information available, leading to difficulties of scale for traditional inference algorithms for topic models. Recent advances in stochastic variational inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-14 James Foulds , Levi Boyles , Christopher Dubois , Padhraic Smyth , Max Welling

A popular approach to topic modeling involves extracting co-occurring n-grams of a corpus into semantic themes. The set of n-grams in a theme represents an underlying topic, but most topic modeling approaches are not able to label these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-19 Justin Wood , Patrick Tan , Wei Wang , Corey Arnold

Topic models have emerged as fundamental tools in unsupervised machine learning. Most modern topic modeling algorithms take a probabilistic view and derive inference algorithms based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) or its variants. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Ke Jiang , Suvrit Sra , Brian Kulis

The increasing volume of short texts generated on social media sites, such as Twitter or Facebook, creates a great demand for effective and efficient topic modeling approaches. While latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) can be applied, it is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-01-29 Jeon-Hyung Kang , Jun Ma , Yan Liu

Applying traditional collaborative filtering to digital publishing is challenging because user data is very sparse due to the high volume of documents relative to the number of users. Content based approaches, on the other hand, is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-01-20 Lars Maaloe , Morten Arngren , Ole Winther

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

In this paper we present a model for unsupervised topic discovery in texts corpora. The proposed model uses documents, words, and topics lookup table embedding as neural network model parameters to build probabilities of words given topics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Sileye 0. Ba

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

Social scientists employ latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) to find highly specific topics in large corpora, but they often struggle in this task because (1) LDA, in general, takes a significant amount of time to fit on large corpora; (2)…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-23 Kohei Watanabe

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a popular topic modeling technique for discovery of hidden semantic architecture of text datasets, and plays a fundamental role in many machine learning applications. However, like many other machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Fangyuan Zhao , Xuebin Ren , Shusen Yang , Xinyu Yang

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) mining thematic structure of documents plays an important role in nature language processing and machine learning areas. However, the probability distribution from LDA only describes the statistical…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-30 Li-Qiang Niu , Xin-Yu Dai

This paper presents an intertemporal bimodal network to analyze the evolution of the semantic content of a scientific field within the framework of topic modeling, namely using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). The main contribution is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Luigi Di Caro , Marco Guerzoni , Massimiliano Nuccio , Giovanni Siragusa

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…

Topic modeling is admittedly a convenient way to monitor markets trend. Conventionally, Latent Dirichlet Allocation, LDA, is considered a must-do model to gain this type of information. By given the merit of deducing keyword with token…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Ching-Hsun Tseng , Shin-Jye Lee , Po-Wei Cheng , Chien Lee , Chih-Chieh Hung

Probabilistic topic models such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) are popularly used with Bayesian inference methods such as Gibbs sampling to learn posterior distributions over topic model parameters. We derive a novel measure of LDA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Linzi Xing , Michael J. Paul , Giuseppe Carenini

Context: Topic modeling finds human-readable structures in unstructured textual data. A widely used topic modeler is Latent Dirichlet allocation. When run on different datasets, LDA suffers from "order effects" i.e. different topics are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Amritanshu Agrawal , Wei Fu , Tim Menzies

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

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a popular topic modeling technique for hidden semantic discovery of text data and serves as a fundamental tool for text analysis in various applications. However, the LDA model as well as the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-12 Fangyuan Zhao , Xuebin Ren , Shusen Yang , Qing Han , Peng Zhao , Xinyu Yang

The training of topic models for a multilingual environment is a challenging task, requiring the use of sophisticated algorithms, topic-aligned corpora, and manual evaluation. These difficulties are further exacerbated when the developer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Felix Engl , Andreas Henrich

For organizing large text corpora topic modeling provides useful tools. A widely used method is Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a generative probabilistic model which models single texts in a collection of texts as mixtures of latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Jonas Rieger , Lars Koppers , Carsten Jentsch , Jörg Rahnenführer