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Topic models have evolved from conventional Bayesian probabilistic models to recent Neural Topic Models (NTMs). Although NTMs have shown promising performance when trained and tested on a specific corpus, their generalisation ability across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Xiaohao Yang , He Zhao , Dinh Phung , Lan Du

A recent line of work in natural language processing has aimed to combine language models and topic models. These topic-guided language models augment neural language models with topic models, unsupervised learning methods that can discover…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Carolina Zheng , Keyon Vafa , David M. Blei

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved strong complex reasoning capabilities through Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning. However, their reasoning patterns remain too complicated to analyze. While Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have emerged as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Xuan Yang , Jiayu Liu , Yuhang Lai , Hao Xu , Zhenya Huang , Ning Miao

Context information around words helps in determining their actual meaning, for example "networks" used in contexts of artificial neural networks or biological neuron networks. Generative topic models infer topic-word distributions, taking…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Pankaj Gupta , Florian Buettner , Hinrich Schütze

Statistical model discovery is a challenging search over a vast space of models subject to domain-specific constraints. Efficiently searching over this space requires expertise in modeling and the problem domain. Motivated by the domain…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Michael Y. Li , Emily B. Fox , Noah D. Goodman

Topic Modelling is one of the most prevalent text analysis technique used to explore and retrieve collection of documents. The evaluation of the topic model algorithms is still a very challenging tasks due to the absence of gold-standard…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Antonio Penta

This paper presents an algorithmic family of dynamic topic models called Aligned Neural Topic Models (ANTM), which combine novel data mining algorithms to provide a modular framework for discovering evolving topics. ANTM maintains the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Hamed Rahimi , Hubert Naacke , Camelia Constantin , Bernd Amann

This paper proposes the continuous semantic topic embedding model (CSTEM) which finds latent topic variables in documents using continuous semantic distance function between the topics and the words by means of the variational…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-11-27 Namkyu Jung , Hyeong In Choi

Large Language Models (LLMs) achieve strong linguistic performance, yet their internal mechanisms for producing these predictions remain unclear. We investigate the hypothesis that LLMs encode representations of linguistic constraint…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hardy , Sebastian Padó

As one of the prevalent topic mining tools, neural topic modeling has attracted a lot of interests for the advantages of high efficiency in training and strong generalisation abilities. However, due to the lack of context in each short…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Jiachun Feng , Zusheng Zhang , Cheng Ding , Yanghui Rao , Haoran Xie

To unfold the tremendous amount of multimedia data uploaded daily to social media platforms, effective topic modeling techniques are needed. Existing work tends to apply topic models on written text datasets. In this paper, we propose a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Lukas Stappen , Jason Thies , Gerhard Hagerer , Björn W. Schuller , Georg Groh

Legacy procedures for topic modelling have generally suffered problems of overfitting and a weakness towards reconstructing sparse topic structures. With motivation from a consumer-generated corpora, this paper proposes semiparametric topic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Dominic B. Dayta , Erniel B. Barrios

We propose a novel neural topic model in the Wasserstein autoencoders (WAE) framework. Unlike existing variational autoencoder based models, we directly enforce Dirichlet prior on the latent document-topic vectors. We exploit the structure…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Feng Nan , Ran Ding , Ramesh Nallapati , Bing Xiang

Recent studies in interpretability have explored the inner workings of transformer models trained on tasks across various domains, often discovering that these networks naturally develop highly structured representations. When such…

Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) have recently emerged as a powerful tool for interpreting the internal representations of large language models (LLMs), revealing latent latent features with semantical meaning. This interpretability has also…

Other Quantitative Biology · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-11 Haoxiang Guan , Jiyan He , Jie Zhang

Topic modeling is a crucial technique for extracting latent themes from unstructured text data, particularly valuable in analyzing survey responses. However, traditional methods often only consider free-text responses and do not natively…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Yash Sharma

Topic segmentation using generative Large Language Models (LLMs) remains relatively unexplored. Previous methods use semantic similarity between sentences, but such models lack the long range dependencies and vast knowledge found in LLMs.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Pierre Mackenzie , Maya Shah , Patrick Frenett

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for topic modeling, outperforming classical topic models such as LDA. Commonly, pre-trained LLM encoders such as BERT are used out-of-the-box despite the fact that fine-tuning is known to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Johannes Schneider

What latent features are encoded in language model (LM) representations? Recent work on training sparse autoencoders (SAEs) to disentangle interpretable features in LM representations has shown significant promise. However, evaluating the…

Recently, Neural Topic Models (NTM), inspired by variational autoencoders, have attracted a lot of research interest; however, these methods have limited applications in the real world due to the challenge of incorporating human knowledge.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Weijie Xu , Xiaoyu Jiang , Srinivasan H. Sengamedu , Francis Iannacci , Jinjin Zhao