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As electronically stored data grow in daily life, obtaining novel and relevant information becomes challenging in text mining. Thus people have sought statistical methods based on term frequency, matrix algebra, or topic modeling for text…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-04 Clint P. George , Wei Xia , George Michailidis

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

Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is a widely-used probabilistic topic modeling paradigm, and recently finds many applications in computer vision and computational biology. In this paper, we propose a fast and accurate batch algorithm,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Jia Zeng , Zhi-Qiang Liu , Xiao-Qin Cao

We introduce a novel approach for estimating Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) parameters from collapsed Gibbs samples (CGS), by leveraging the full conditional distributions over the latent variable assignments to efficiently average over…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-12 Yannis Papanikolaou , James R. Foulds , Timothy N. Rubin , Grigorios Tsoumakas

Topic models, such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), posit that documents are drawn from admixtures of distributions over words, known as topics. The inference problem of recovering topics from admixtures, is NP-hard. Assuming…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-05 Trapit Bansal , Chiranjib Bhattacharyya , Ravindran Kannan

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

Traditional topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have been widely used to uncover latent structures in text corpora, but they often struggle to integrate auxiliary information such as metadata, user attributes, or document…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Biyi Fang , Truong Vo , Kripa Rajshekhar , Diego Klabjan

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

Traditionally, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) ingests words in a collection of documents to discover their latent topics using word-document co-occurrences. However, it is unclear how to achieve the best results for languages without…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-25 Jin Cheevaprawatdomrong , Alexandra Schofield , Attapol T. Rutherford

How can we perform efficient inference and learning in directed probabilistic models, in the presence of continuous latent variables with intractable posterior distributions, and large datasets? We introduce a stochastic variational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-12-13 Diederik P Kingma , Max Welling

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

The question of how to determine the number of independent latent factors (topics) in mixture models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is of great practical importance. In most applications, the exact number of topics is unknown,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-23 E. D. Gutiérrez

Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is an important hierarchical Bayesian model for probabilistic topic modeling, which attracts worldwide interests and touches on many important applications in text mining, computer vision and computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-08-14 Jia Zeng

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

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

We investigate the problem of learning a topic model - the well-known Latent Dirichlet Allocation - in a distributed manner, using a cluster of C processors and dividing the corpus to be learned equally among them. We propose a simple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2009-09-28 James Petterson , Tiberio Caetano

In real world industrial applications of topic modeling, the ability to capture gigantic conceptual space by learning an ultra-high dimensional topical representation, i.e., the so-called "big model", is becoming the next desideratum after…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-11-11 Xun Zheng , Jin Kyu Kim , Qirong Ho , Eric P. Xing

Fast convergence speed is a desired property for training latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), especially in online and parallel topic modeling for massive data sets. This paper presents a novel residual belief propagation (RBP) algorithm to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-06-14 Jia Zeng , Xiao-Qin Cao , Zhi-Qiang Liu

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a popular tool for analyzing discrete count data such as text and images. Applications require LDA to handle both large datasets and a large number of topics. Though distributed CPU systems have been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Kaiwei Li , Jianfei Chen , Wenguang Chen , Jun Zhu

Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) obtains essential information from data by using Bayesian inference. It is applied to knowledge discovery via dimension reducing and clustering in many fields. However, its generalization error had not been…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2021-01-26 Naoki Hayashi