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Recently, the retrieval models based on dense representations have been gradually applied in the first stage of the document retrieval tasks, showing better performance than traditional sparse vector space models. To obtain high efficiency,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Hongyin Tang , Xingwu Sun , Beihong Jin , Jingang Wang , Fuzheng Zhang , Wei Wu

Text-based person search (TBPS) is a challenging task that aims to search pedestrian images with the same identity from an image gallery given a query text. In recent years, TBPS has made remarkable progress and state-of-the-art methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Shuanglin Yan , Hao Tang , Liyan Zhang , Jinhui Tang

Subject-driven text-to-image diffusion models empower users to tailor the model to new concepts absent in the pre-training dataset using a few sample images. However, prevalent subject-driven models primarily rely on single-concept input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Junjie Shentu , Matthew Watson , Noura Al Moubayed

Topic modeling is traditionally applied to word counts without accounting for the context in which words appear. Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) offer contextualized word embeddings, which capture deeper meaning and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-12-30 Morgane Austern , Yuanchuan Guo , Zheng Tracy Ke , Tianle Liu

When working with a new dataset, it is important to first explore and familiarize oneself with it, before applying any advanced machine learning algorithms. However, to the best of our knowledge, no tools exist that quickly and reliably…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Franziska Horn , Leila Arras , Grégoire Montavon , Klaus-Robert Müller , Wojciech Samek

In the past few decades, there has been an explosion in the amount of available data produced from various sources with different topics. The availability of this enormous data necessitates us to adopt effective computational tools to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Mina Samizadeh

Most of the fastest-growing string collections today are repetitive, that is, most of the constituent documents are similar to many others. As these collections keep growing, a key approach to handling them is to exploit their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2017-05-22 Travis Gagie , Aleksi Hartikainen , Kalle Karhu , Juha Kärkkäinen , Gonzalo Navarro , Simon J. Puglisi , Jouni Sirén

Topic Modeling is a popular statistical tool commonly used on textual data to identify the hidden thematic structure in a document collection based on the distribution of words. Additionally, it can be used to cluster the documents, with…

Applications · Statistics 2025-01-24 Namitha V. Pais , Scott H. Holan , Paul A. Parker

Traditional information retrieval systems rely on keywords to index documents and queries. In such systems, documents are retrieved based on the number of shared keywords with the query. This lexical-focused retrieval leads to inaccurate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-03-08 Fatiha Boubekeur , Wassila Azzoug

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

Since the emergence of the worldwide pandemic of COVID-19, relevant research has been published at a dazzling pace, which yields an abundant amount of big data in biomedical literature. Due to the high volum of relevant literature, it is…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Yeseul Jeon , Dongjun Chung , Jina Park , Ick Hoon Jin

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

Topic models are gaining increasing commercial and academic interest for their ability to summarize large volumes of unstructured text. As unsupervised machine learning methods, they enable researchers to explore data and help general users…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Thomas Compton

Topic modeling is a widely used technique for revealing underlying thematic structures within textual data. However, existing models have certain limitations, particularly when dealing with short text datasets that lack co-occurring words.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Han Wang , Nirmalendu Prakash , Nguyen Khoi Hoang , Ming Shan Hee , Usman Naseem , Roy Ka-Wei Lee

The growing use of unstructured text in business research makes topic modeling a central tool for constructing explanatory variables from reviews, social media, and open-ended survey responses, yet existing approaches function poorly as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-05 Stephan Ludwig , Peter J. Danaher , Xiaohao Yang

This paper describes a method for searching for common sets of descriptors between collections of images. The presented method operates on local interest keypoints, which are generated using the SURF algorithm. The use of a dictionary of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-28 Patryk Najgebauer , Janusz Rygal , Tomasz Nowak , Jakub Romanowski , Leszek Rutkowski , Sviatoslav Voloshynovskiy , Rafal Scherer

Topic evolution modeling has been researched for a long time and has gained considerable interest. A state-of-the-art method has been recently using word modeling algorithms in combination with community detection mechanisms to achieve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-17 Patrick Kiss , Elaheh Momeni

Mining a set of meaningful topics organized into a hierarchy is intuitively appealing since topic correlations are ubiquitous in massive text corpora. To account for potential hierarchical topic structures, hierarchical topic models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Yu Meng , Yunyi Zhang , Jiaxin Huang , Yu Zhang , Chao Zhang , Jiawei Han

Prompt-based learning's efficacy across numerous natural language processing tasks has led to its integration into dense passage retrieval. Prior research has mainly focused on enhancing the semantic understanding of pre-trained language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Qingfa Xiao , Shuangyin Li , Lei Chen

Recently there has been significant activity in developing algorithms with provable guarantees for topic modeling. In standard topic models, a topic (such as sports, business, or politics) is viewed as a probability distribution $\vec a_i$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Avrim Blum , Nika Haghtalab