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Compositional Data Analysis (CoDa) has gained popularity in recent years. This type of data consists of values from disjoint categories that sum up to a constant. Both Dirichlet regression and logistic-normal regression have become popular…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-06-25 Joaquín Martínez-Minaya , Haavard Rue

Synthetic tabular data generation has attracted growing attention due to its importance for data augmentation, foundation models, and privacy. However, real-world tabular datasets increasingly contain free-form text fields (e.g., reviews or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Donghong Cai , Jiarui Feng , Yanbo Wang , Da Zheng , Yixin Chen , Muhan Zhang

Topic modeling has been a widely used tool for unsupervised text analysis. However, comprehensive evaluations of a topic model remain challenging. Existing evaluation methods are either less comparable across different models (e.g.,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Xiaohao Yang , He Zhao , Dinh Phung , Wray Buntine , Lan Du

Software repositories contain large amounts of textual data, ranging from source code comments and issue descriptions to questions, answers, and comments on Stack Overflow. To make sense of this textual data, topic modelling is frequently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-12 Christoph Treude , Markus Wagner

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

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

Topic modeling is a powerful technique for uncovering hidden themes within a collection of documents. However, the effectiveness of traditional topic models often relies on sufficient word co-occurrence, which is lacking in short texts.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-22 Pritom Saha Akash , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

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

Topic modeling is widely used for analytically evaluating large collections of textual data. One of the most popular topic techniques is Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), which is flexible and adaptive, but not optimal for e.g. short texts…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Muriël de Groot , Mohammad Aliannejadi , Marcel R. Haas

Topic modeling based on latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) has been a framework of choice to deal with multimodal data, such as in image annotation tasks. Another popular approach to model the multimodal data is through deep neural networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-01 Yin Zheng , Yu-Jin Zhang , Hugo Larochelle

Topic models are widely used to analyze document collections. While they are valuable for discovering latent topics in a corpus when analysts are unfamiliar with the corpus, analysts also commonly start with an understanding of the content…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Garima Dhanania , Sheshera Mysore , Chau Minh Pham , Mohit Iyyer , Hamed Zamani , Andrew McCallum

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become powerful tools for annotating unstructured data. However, most existing workflows rely on ad hoc scripts, making reproducibility, robustness, and systematic evaluation difficult. To address these…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Eric Fithian , Kirill Skobelev

Probabilistic topic models are generative models that describe the content of documents by discovering the latent topics underlying them. However, the structure of the textual input, and for instance the grouping of words in coherent text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-06-02 Georgios Balikas , Massih-Reza Amini , Marianne Clausel

Recommendation systems have an important place to help online users in the internet society. Recommendation Systems in computer science are of very practical use these days in various aspects of the Internet portals, such as social…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-12-21 Hamed Jelodar , Yongli Wang , Mahdi Rabbani , Ru-xin Zhao , Seyedvalyallah Ayobi , Peng Hu , Isma Masood

One of the main computational and scientific challenges in the modern age is to extract useful information from unstructured texts. Topic models are one popular machine-learning approach which infers the latent topical structure of a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-07-20 Martin Gerlach , Tiago P. Peixoto , Eduardo G. Altmann

By illuminating latent structures in a corpus of text, topic models are an essential tool for categorizing, summarizing, and exploring large collections of documents. Probabilistic topic models, such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA),…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Bahareh Harandizadeh , J. Hunter Priniski , Fred Morstatter

Supervised topic models can help clinical researchers find interpretable cooccurence patterns in count data that are relevant for diagnostics. However, standard formulations of supervised Latent Dirichlet Allocation have two problems.…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-07 Michael C. Hughes , Huseyin Melih Elibol , Thomas McCoy , Roy Perlis , Finale Doshi-Velez

We introduce a new pretraining approach geared for multi-document language modeling, incorporating two key ideas into the masked language modeling self-supervised objective. First, instead of considering documents in isolation, we pretrain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Avi Caciularu , Arman Cohan , Iz Beltagy , Matthew E. Peters , Arie Cattan , Ido Dagan

Topic modeling is a widely used technique for uncovering thematic structures from large text corpora. However, most topic modeling approaches e.g. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) struggle to capture nuanced semantics and contextual…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Satya Kapoor , Alex Gil , Sreyoshi Bhaduri , Anshul Mittal , Rutu Mulkar

Large Language Models (LLMs) are a powerful tool for statistical text analysis, with derived sequences of next-token probability distributions offering a wealth of information. Extracting this signal typically relies on metrics such as…