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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

A conversational system needs to know how to switch between topics to continue the conversation for a more extended period. For this topic detection from dialogue corpus has become an important task for a conversation and accurate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-08 Haider Khalid , Vincent Wade

The latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) model is a widely-used latent variable model in machine learning for text analysis. Inference for this model typically involves a single-site collapsed Gibbs sampling step for latent variables…

Computation · Statistics 2016-08-03 Xin Zhang , Scott A. Sisson

We introduce the author-topic model, a generative model for documents that extends Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA; Blei, Ng, & Jordan, 2003) to include authorship information. Each author is associated with a multinomial distribution over…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Michal Rosen-Zvi , Thomas Griffiths , Mark Steyvers , Padhraic Smyth

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

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

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

The recent advancement of large language models has spurred a growing trend of integrating pre-trained language model (PLM) embeddings into topic models, fundamentally reshaping how topics capture semantic structure. Classical models such…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Hanlin Xiao , Mauricio A. Álvarez , Rainer Breitling

Topic models, and more specifically the class of Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), are widely used for probabilistic modeling of text. MCMC sampling from the posterior distribution is typically performed using a collapsed Gibbs sampler. We…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-08-16 Måns Magnusson , Leif Jonsson , Mattias Villani , David Broman

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

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

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

Analyzing journals and articles abstract text or documents using topic modelling and text clustering has become a modern solution for the increasing number of text documents. Topic modelling and text clustering are both intensely involved…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Shadikur Rahman , Umme Ayman Koana , Aras M. Ismael , Karmand Hussein Abdalla

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…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Luigi Di Caro , Marco Guerzoni , Massimiliano Nuccio , Giovanni Siragusa

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

A common task in many political institutions (i.e. Parliament) is to find politicians who are experts in a particular field. In order to tackle this problem, the first step is to obtain politician profiles which include their interests, and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Luis M. de Campos , Juan M. Fernández-Luna , Juan F. Huete , Luis Redondo-Expósito

Tagging is nowadays the most prevalent and practical way to make images searchable. However, in reality many manually-assigned tags are irrelevant to image content and hence are not reliable for applications. A lot of recent efforts have…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2013-07-31 Jingdong Wang , Jiazhen Zhou , Hao Xu , Tao Mei , Xian-Sheng Hua , Shipeng Li

We propose a geometric algorithm for topic learning and inference that is built on the convex geometry of topics arising from the Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model and its nonparametric extensions. To this end we study the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-10-31 Mikhail Yurochkin , XuanLong Nguyen

Word clouds became a standard tool for presenting results of natural language processing methods such as topic modelling. They exhibit most important words, where word size is often chosen proportional to the relevance of words within a…

Computation · Statistics 2023-02-14 Peter Winker

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