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Traditional Relational Topic Models provide a way to discover the hidden topics from a document network. Many theoretical and practical tasks, such as dimensional reduction, document clustering, link prediction, benefit from this revealed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-03-31 Junyu Xuan , Jie Lu , Guangquan Zhang , Richard Yi Da Xu , Xiangfeng Luo

The problem of topic modeling can be seen as a generalization of the clustering problem, in that it posits that observations are generated due to multiple latent factors (e.g., the words in each document are generated as a mixture of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-21 Animashree Anandkumar , Dean P. Foster , Daniel Hsu , Sham M. Kakade , Yi-Kai Liu

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

Topic modeling analyzes documents to learn meaningful patterns of words. However, existing topic models fail to learn interpretable topics when working with large and heavy-tailed vocabularies. To this end, we develop the Embedded Topic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Adji B. Dieng , Francisco J. R. Ruiz , David M. Blei

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) models trained without stopword removal often produce topics with high posterior probabilities on uninformative words, obscuring the underlying corpus content. Even when canonical stopwords are manually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-17 Angela Fan , Finale Doshi-Velez , Luke Miratrix

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a prominent generative probabilistic model used for uncovering abstract topics within document collections. In this paper, we explore the effectiveness of augmenting topic models with Large Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Mengze Hong , Chen Jason Zhang , Di Jiang

Large language models (LLMs) can produce long, coherent passages of text, suggesting that LLMs, although trained on next-word prediction, must represent the latent structure that characterizes a document. Prior work has found that internal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Liyi Zhang , R. Thomas McCoy , Theodore R. Sumers , Jian-Qiao Zhu , Thomas L. Griffiths

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

Traditional topic models are effective at uncovering latent themes in large text collections. However, due to their reliance on bag-of-words representations, they struggle to capture semantically abstract features. While some neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Carolina Zheng , Nicolas Beltran-Velez , Sweta Karlekar , Claudia Shi , Achille Nazaret , Asif Mallik , Amir Feder , David M. Blei

The syntactic topic model (STM) is a Bayesian nonparametric model of language that discovers latent distributions of words (topics) that are both semantically and syntactically coherent. The STM models dependency parsed corpora where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2010-03-04 Jordan Boyd-Graber , David M. Blei

Much of information sits in an unprecedented amount of text data. Managing allocation of these large scale text data is an important problem for many areas. Topic modeling performs well in this problem. The traditional generative models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-11-30 Guorui Zhou , Guang Chen

Topic models aim to reveal latent structures within a corpus of text, typically through the use of term-frequency statistics over bag-of-words representations from documents. In recent years, conceptual entities -- interpretable,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Manuel V. Loureiro , Steven Derby , Tri Kurniawan Wijaya

Topic modeling is a powerful technique to discover hidden topics and patterns within a collection of documents without prior knowledge. Traditional topic modeling and clustering-based techniques encounter challenges in capturing contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Melkamu Abay Mersha , Mesay Gemeda yigezu , Jugal Kalita

We present LDAExplore, a tool to visualize topic distributions in a given document corpus that are generated using Topic Modeling methods. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is one of the basic methods that is predominantly used to generate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-07-24 Ashwinkumar Ganesan , Kiante Brantley , Shimei Pan , Jian Chen

The tremendous growth of social media content on the Internet has inspired the development of the text analytics to understand and solve real-life problems. Leveraging statistical topic modelling helps researchers and practitioners in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-08-09 Marina Sokolova , Kanyi Huang , Stan Matwin , Joshua Ramisch , Vera Sazonova , Renee Black , Chris Orwa , Sidney Ochieng , Nanjira Sambuli

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

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

Topic models are a useful analysis tool to uncover the underlying themes within document collections. The dominant approach is to use probabilistic topic models that posit a generative story, but in this paper we propose an alternative way…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-08 Suzanna Sia , Ayush Dalmia , Sabrina J. Mielke

Topic models are frequently used in machine learning owing to their high interpretability and modular structure. However, extending a topic model to include a supervisory signal, to incorporate pre-trained word embedding vectors and to…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2019-09-17 Ryohei Hisano

Contextualised word vectors obtained via pre-trained language models encode a variety of knowledge that has already been exploited in applications. Complementary to these language models are probabilistic topic models that learn thematic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-12 Mozhgan Talebpour , Alba Garcia Seco de Herrera , Shoaib Jameel