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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…

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We introduce supervised latent Dirichlet allocation (sLDA), a statistical model of labelled documents. The model accommodates a variety of response types. We derive an approximate maximum-likelihood procedure for parameter estimation, which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-03-04 David M. Blei , Jon D. McAuliffe

As one of the simplest probabilistic topic modeling techniques, latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) has found many important applications in text mining, computer vision and computational biology. Recent training algorithms for LDA can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-11 Jia Zeng , Zhi-Qiang Liu , Xiao-Qin Cao

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

Originally designed to model text, topic modeling has become a powerful tool for uncovering latent structure in domains including medicine, finance, and vision. The goals for the model vary depending on the application: in some cases, the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-11-24 Finale Doshi-Velez , Byron Wallace , Ryan Adams

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

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…

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

Selecting in-domain data from a large pool of diverse and out-of-domain data is a non-trivial problem. In most cases simply using all of the available data will lead to sub-optimal and in some cases even worse performance compared to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Mortaza , Doulaty , Thomas Hain

Topic modeling is widely used for uncovering thematic structures within text corpora, yet traditional models often struggle with specificity and coherence in domain-focused applications. Guided approaches, such as SeededLDA and CorEx,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Chia-Hsuan Chang , Jui-Tse Tsai , Yi-Hang Tsai , San-Yih Hwang

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

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 2015-03-19 Jia Zeng , William K. Cheung , Jiming Liu

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

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

Improvements in aviation safety analysis call for innovative techniques to extract valuable insights from the abundance of textual data available in accident reports. This paper explores the application of four prominent topic modelling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Aziida Nanyonga , Hassan Wasswa , Ugur Turhan , Keith Joiner , Graham Wild

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

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

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

As dataset sizes increase, data analysis tasks in high performance computing (HPC) are increasingly dependent on sophisticated dataflows and out-of-core methods for efficient system utilization. In addition, as HPC systems grow, memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-01 George K. Thiruvathukal , Cameron Christensen , Xiaoyong Jin , François Tessier , Venkatram Vishwanath

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