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We propose a new topic modeling procedure that takes advantage of the fact that the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) log likelihood function is asymptotically equivalent to the logarithm of the volume of the topic simplex. This allows…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-04-04 Byoungwook Jang , Alfred Hero

We give an algorithm for learning a mixture of {\em unstructured} distributions. This problem arises in various unsupervised learning scenarios, for example in learning {\em topic models} from a corpus of documents spanning several topics.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-09-19 Yuval Rabani , Leonard Schulman , Chaitanya Swamy

Topic models have been widely used in discovering latent topics which are shared across documents in text mining. Vector representations, word embeddings and topic embeddings, map words and topics into a low-dimensional and dense real-value…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-24 Jarvan Law , Hankz Hankui Zhuo , Junhua He , Erhu Rong

Despite many years of research into latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), applying LDA to collections of non-categorical items is still challenging. Yet many problems with much richer data share a similar structure and could benefit from the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-01-08 Iryna Korshunova , Hanchen Xiong , Mateusz Fedoryszak , Lucas Theis

We address the challenge of incorporating document-level metadata into topic modeling to improve topic mixture estimation. To overcome the computational complexity and lack of theoretical guarantees in existing Bayesian methods, we extend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Yeo Jin Jung , Claire Donnat

Topic modeling, a method for extracting the underlying themes from a collection of documents, is an increasingly important component of the design of intelligent systems enabling the sense-making of highly dynamic and diverse streams of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-10-07 Chris Gropp , Alexander Herzog , Ilya Safro , Paul W. Wilson , Amy W. Apon

Inferring topics from the overwhelming amount of short texts becomes a critical but challenging task for many content analysis tasks, such as content charactering, user interest profiling, and emerging topic detecting. Existing methods such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-09-28 Jipeng Qiang , Ping Chen , Tong Wang , Xindong Wu

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

Singular value decomposition (SVD) is one of the most popular compression methods that approximate a target matrix with smaller matrices. However, standard SVD treats the parameters within the matrix with equal importance, which is a simple…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Ting Hua , Yen-Chang Hsu , Felicity Wang , Qian Lou , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

We revisit a singular value decomposition (SVD) algorithm given in Chen et al. (2019b) for exploratory Item Factor Analysis (IFA). This algorithm estimates a multidimensional IFA model by SVD and was used to obtain a starting point for…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-08 Haoran Zhang , Yunxiao Chen , Xiaoou Li

As the emergence and the thriving development of social networks, a huge number of short texts are accumulated and need to be processed. Inferring latent topics of collected short texts is useful for understanding its hidden structure and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-04 Zhenghang Cui , Issei Sato , Masashi Sugiyama

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

Learning a high-dimensional dense representation for vocabulary terms, also known as a word embedding, has recently attracted much attention in natural language processing and information retrieval tasks. The embedding vectors are typically…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Hamed Zamani , W. Bruce Croft

The singular value decomposition (SVD) and the principal component analysis are fundamental tools and probably the most popular methods for data dimension reduction. The rapid growth in the size of data matrices has lead to a need for…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2020-02-03 Ting-Li Chen , Su-Yun Huang , Weichung Wang

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

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a topic model widely used in natural language processing and machine learning. Most approaches to training the model rely on iterative algorithms, which makes it difficult to run LDA on big corpora that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-23 Alexander Terenin , Måns Magnusson , Leif Jonsson , David Draper

Efficient representation of text documents is an important building block in many NLP tasks. Research on long text categorization has shown that simple weighted averaging of word vectors for sentence representation often outperforms more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-20 Vivek Gupta , Ankit Saw , Pegah Nokhiz , Harshit Gupta , Partha Talukdar

This paper presents a model-based, unsupervised algorithm for recovering word boundaries in a natural-language text from which they have been deleted. The algorithm is derived from a probability model of the source that generated the text.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michael R. Brent

Topic modeling seeks to uncover latent semantic structure in text, with LDA providing a foundational probabilistic framework. While recent methods often incorporate external knowledge (e.g., pre-trained embeddings), such reliance limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Tal Ishon , Yoav Goldberg , Uri Shaham

With the advent and popularity of big data mining and huge text analysis in modern times, automated text summarization became prominent for extracting and retrieving important information from documents. This research investigates aspects…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Daniel F. O. Onah , Elaine L. L. Pang , Mahmoud El-Haj