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This paper presents a modified neural model for topic detection from a corpus and proposes a new metric to evaluate the detected topics. The new model builds upon the embedded topic model incorporating some modifications such as document…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Tomoya Kitano , Yuto Miyatake , Daisuke Furihata

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

By illuminating latent structures in a corpus of text, topic models are an essential tool for categorizing, summarizing, and exploring large collections of documents. Probabilistic topic models, such as latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA),…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Bahareh Harandizadeh , J. Hunter Priniski , Fred Morstatter

As the emergence and the thriving development of social networks, a huge number of short texts are accumulated and need to be processed. Inferring latent topics of collected short texts is useful for understanding its hidden structure and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-04-04 Zhenghang Cui , Issei Sato , Masashi Sugiyama

Topic models are one of the compelling methods for discovering latent semantics in a document collection. However, it assumes that a document has sufficient co-occurrence information to be effective. However, in short texts, co-occurrence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Pritom Saha Akash , Jie Huang , Kevin Chen-Chuan Chang

This paper proposes a new methodology to study sequential corpora by implementing a two-stage algorithm that learns time-based topics with respect to a scale of document positions and introduces the concept of Topic Scaling which ranks…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Sami Diaf , Ulrich Fritsche

We present a novel method for hierarchical topic detection where topics are obtained by clustering documents in multiple ways. Specifically, we model document collections using a class of graphical models called hierarchical latent tree…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Peixian Chen , Nevin L. Zhang , Tengfei Liu , Leonard K. M. Poon , Zhourong Chen , Farhan Khawar

This study provides the first comprehensive assessment of consistency and reproducibility in Large Language Model (LLM) outputs in finance and accounting research. We evaluate how consistently LLMs produce outputs given identical inputs…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2025-09-16 Julian Junyan Wang , Victor Xiaoqi Wang

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

Topic models have been the prominent tools for automatic topic discovery from text corpora. Despite their effectiveness, topic models suffer from several limitations including the inability of modeling word ordering information in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Yu Meng , Yunyi Zhang , Jiaxin Huang , Yu Zhang , Jiawei Han

Token prediction stability remains a challenge in autoregressive generative models, where minor variations in early inference steps often lead to significant semantic drift over extended sequences. A structured modulation mechanism was…

Aviation safety is a global concern, requiring detailed investigations into incidents to understand contributing factors comprehensively. This study uses the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) dataset. It applies advanced natural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Aziida Nanyonga , Hassan Wasswa , Ugur Turhan , Keith Joiner , Graham Wild

Large language models (LLMs) appear to bias their survey answers toward certain values. Nonetheless, some argue that LLMs are too inconsistent to simulate particular values. Are they? To answer, we first define value consistency as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Jared Moore , Tanvi Deshpande , Diyi Yang

The Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model is a popular method for creating mixed-membership clusters. Despite having been originally developed for text analysis, LDA has been used for a wide range of other applications. We propose a new…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-02-24 Gilson Shimizu , Rafael Izbicki , Denis Valle

As large language models become increasingly capable at various writing tasks, their weakness at generating unique and creative content becomes a major liability. Although LLMs have the ability to generate text covering diverse topics,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Ramya Namuduri , Yating Wu , Anshun Asher Zheng , Manya Wadhwa , Greg Durrett , Junyi Jessy Li

Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) are becoming integral components of real world services relied upon by millions of users. Unfortunately, architects of these systems can find it difficult to ensure reliable performance as irrelevant details like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Arghya Datta , Subhrangshu Nandi , Jingcheng Xu , Greg Ver Steeg , He Xie , Anoop Kumar , Aram Galstyan

Diffusion language models expose an explicit denoising trajectory, making it possible to ask when different kinds of information become measurable during generation. We study three independent 32-step runs of LLaDA-8B-Base on masked…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Harry Lu

Topic Modeling is an approach used for automatic comprehension and classification of data in a variety of settings, and perhaps the canonical application is in uncovering thematic structure in a corpus of documents. A number of foundational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-04-13 Sanjeev Arora , Rong Ge , Ankur Moitra

We study the problem of topic modeling in corpora whose documents are organized in a multi-level hierarchy. We explore a parametric approach to this problem, assuming that the number of topics is known or can be estimated by…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-04-14 Do-kyum Kim , Geoffrey M. Voelker , Lawrence K. Saul

In this article we propose and validate an unsupervised probabilistic model, Gaussian Latent Dirichlet Allocation (GLDA), for the problem of discrete state discovery from repeated, multivariate psychophysiological samples collected from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-30 Congyu Wu , Aaron Fisher , David Schnyer