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Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is a popular topic modeling technique in academia but less so in industry, especially in large-scale applications involving search engine and online advertising systems. A main underlying reason is that the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Yi Wang , Xuemin Zhao , Zhenlong Sun , Hao Yan , Lifeng Wang , Zhihui Jin , Liubin Wang , Yang Gao , Ching Law , Jia Zeng

Discrete diffusion models have recently become competitive with autoregressive models for language modeling, even outperforming them on reasoning tasks requiring planning and global coherence, but they require more computation at inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Andre He , Sean Welleck , Daniel Fried

Devising strategies for economic development in a globally competitive landscape requires a solid and unbiased understanding of countries technological advancements and similarities among export products. Both can be addressed through the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-09-01 Mika J. Straka , Guido Caldarelli , Fabio Saracco

Assume we have potential "causes" $z\in Z$, which produce "events" $w$ with known probabilities $\beta(w|z)$. We observe $w_1,w_2,...,w_n$, what can we say about the distribution of the causes? A Bayesian estimate will assume a prior on…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-04-02 Hartmut Maennel

Probabilistic topic models such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) are popularly used with Bayesian inference methods such as Gibbs sampling to learn posterior distributions over topic model parameters. We derive a novel measure of LDA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-17 Linzi Xing , Michael J. Paul , Giuseppe Carenini

Latent Dirichlet analysis, or topic modeling, is a flexible latent variable framework for modeling high-dimensional sparse count data. Various learning algorithms have been developed in recent years, including collapsed Gibbs sampling,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-14 Arthur Asuncion , Max Welling , Padhraic Smyth , Yee Whye Teh

Latent tree analysis seeks to model the correlations among a set of random variables using a tree of latent variables. It was proposed as an improvement to latent class analysis --- a method widely used in social sciences and medicine to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-04 Nevin L. Zhang , Leonard K. M. Poon

Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis is a novel statistical technique for the analysis of two-mode and co-occurrence data, which has applications in information retrieval and filtering, natural language processing, machine learning from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Thomas Hofmann

In latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), topics are multinomial distributions over the entire vocabulary. However, the vocabulary usually contains many words that are not relevant in forming the topics. We adopt a variable selection method…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Dongwoo Kim , Yeonseung Chung , Alice Oh

Advances in topic modeling have yielded effective methods for characterizing the latent semantics of textual data. However, applying standard topic modeling approaches to sentence-level tasks introduces a number of challenges. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-21 Ruey-Cheng Chen , Reid Swanson , Andrew S. Gordon

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

A new method for analyzing high-dimensional categorical data, Linear Latent Structure (LLS) analysis, is presented. LLS models belong to the family of latent structure models, which are mixture distribution models constrained to satisfy the…

Probability · Mathematics 2007-06-13 Mikhail Kovtun , Igor Akushevich , Kenneth G. Manton , H. Dennis Tolley

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a popular topic modeling technique for exploring document collections. Because of the increasing prevalence of large datasets, there is a need to improve the scalability of inference of LDA. In this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-20 Ke Zhai , Jordan Boyd-Graber , Nima Asadi

A text mining approach is proposed based on latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) to analyze the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) consumer complaints. The proposed approach aims to extract latent topics in the CFPB complaint…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Kaveh Bastani , Hamed Namavari , Jeffry Shaffer

This study investigates the effectiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) for the extraction of structured knowledge in the form of Subject-Predicate-Object triples. We apply the setup for the domain of Economics application. The findings…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Durgesh Nandini , Rebekka Koch , Mirco Schoenfeld

We propose a method to discover latent topics and visualise large collections of tweets for easy identification and interpretation of topics, and exemplify its use with tweets from a Colombian mass media giant in the period 2014--2019. The…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Vladimir Vargas-Calderón , Marlon Steibeck Dominguez , N. Parra-A. , Herbert Vinck-Posada , Jorge E. Camargo

This article proposes a mixture modeling approach to estimating cluster-wise conditional distributions in clustered (grouped) data. We adapt the mixture-of-experts model to the latent distributions, and propose a model in which each…

Methodology · Statistics 2019-09-10 Shonosuke Sugasawa , Genya Kobayashi , Yuki Kawakubo

In this study, we delve into the dynamic landscape of machine learning research evolution. Initially, through the utilization of Latent Dirichlet Allocation, we discern pivotal themes and fundamental concepts that have emerged within the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Vítor Bandeira Borges , Daniel Oliveira Cajueiro

In this work, automatic analysis of themes contained in a large corpora of judgments from public procurement domain is performed. The employed technique is unsupervised latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA). In addition, it is proposed, to use…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-12-18 Michał Łopuszyński

The paper analyses trade between the most developed economies of the world. The analysis is based on the previously proposed model of international trade. This model of international trade is based on the theory of general economic…

Trading and Market Microstructure · Quantitative Finance 2025-03-24 N. S. Gonchar , O. P. Dovzhyk , A. S. Zhokhin , W. H. Kozyrski , A. P. Makhort