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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

The question of how to determine the number of independent latent factors (topics) in mixture models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is of great practical importance. In most applications, the exact number of topics is unknown,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2014-01-23 E. D. Gutiérrez

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

The expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm can compute the maximum-likelihood (ML) or maximum a posterior (MAP) point estimate of the mixture models or latent variable models such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), which has been one of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-12-08 Jia Zeng , Zhi-Qiang Liu , Xiao-Qin Cao

User behaviour analysis based on traffic log in wireless networks can be beneficial to many fields in real life: not only for commercial purposes, but also for improving network service quality and social management. We cluster users into…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-11-19 Bingjie Leng , Jingchu Liu , Huimin Pan , Sheng Zhou , Zhisheng Niu

Automatic classification of scientific articles based on common characteristics is an interesting problem with many applications in digital library and information retrieval systems. Properly organized articles can be useful for automatic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-05-04 Shameem A Puthiya Parambath

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

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

Background: Unstructured and textual data is increasing rapidly and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) topic modeling is a popular data analysis methods for it. Past work suggests that instability of LDA topics may lead to systematic errors.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-04 Mika Mäntylä , Maëlick Claes , Umar Farooq

Topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have been widely used in information retrieval for tasks ranging from smoothing and feedback methods to tools for exploratory search and discovery. However, classical methods for…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Rolf Jagerman , Carsten Eickhoff , Maarten de Rijke

The hedge fund industry presents significant challenges for investors due to its opacity and limited disclosure requirements. This pioneering study introduces two major innovations in financial text analysis. First, we apply topic modeling…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-12-09 Chang Liu

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a foundational model for discovering latent thematic structure in discrete data, but its Dirichlet prior cannot represent the rich correlations and hierarchical relationships often present among topics.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Zheng Wang , Nizar Bouguila

Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is a widely-used probabilistic topic modeling paradigm, and recently finds many applications in computer vision and computational biology. In this paper, we propose a fast and accurate batch algorithm,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-04-09 Jia Zeng , Zhi-Qiang Liu , Xiao-Qin Cao

Extracting and identifying latent topics in large text corpora has gained increasing importance in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Most models, whether probabilistic models similar to Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) or neural topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Anton Thielmann , Quentin Seifert , Arik Reuter , Elisabeth Bergherr , Benjamin Säfken

Probabilistic topic models like Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have been previously extended to the bilingual setting. A fundamental modeling assumption in several of these extensions is that the input corpora are in the form of document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Georgios Balikas , Massih-Reza Amini , Marianne Clausel

Traditional neural topic models are typically optimized by reconstructing the document's Bag-of-Words (BoW) representations, overlooking contextual information and struggling with data sparsity. In this work, we propose a novel approach to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Raymond Li , Amirhossein Abaskohi , Chuyuan Li , Gabriel Murray , Giuseppe Carenini

For organizing large text corpora topic modeling provides useful tools. A widely used method is Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a generative probabilistic model which models single texts in a collection of texts as mixtures of latent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Jonas Rieger , Lars Koppers , Carsten Jentsch , Jörg Rahnenführer

As one of the most powerful topic models, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) has been used in a vast range of tasks, including document understanding, information retrieval and peer-reviewer assignment. Despite its tremendous popularity, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Qi Zhou , Haipeng Chen , Yitao Zheng , Zhen Wang

As one of the simplest probabilistic topic modeling techniques, latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) has found many important applications in text mining, computer vision and computational biology. Recent training algorithms for LDA can be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-11 Jia Zeng , Zhi-Qiang Liu , Xiao-Qin Cao

In the internet era there has been an explosion in the amount of digital text information available, leading to difficulties of scale for traditional inference algorithms for topic models. Recent advances in stochastic variational inference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2013-05-14 James Foulds , Levi Boyles , Christopher Dubois , Padhraic Smyth , Max Welling