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The quality of enumeration algorithms is often measured by their delay, that is, the maximal time spent between the output of two distinct solutions. If the goal is to enumerate $t$ distinct solutions for any given $t$, then another…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Florent Capelli , Yann Strozecki

Topic models are one of the most popular methods for learning representations of text, but a major challenge is that any change to the topic model requires mathematically deriving a new inference algorithm. A promising approach to address…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-03-07 Akash Srivastava , Charles Sutton

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

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

Social scientists employ latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) to find highly specific topics in large corpora, but they often struggle in this task because (1) LDA, in general, takes a significant amount of time to fit on large corpora; (2)…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-23 Kohei Watanabe

Topic modelling in Natural Language Processing uncovers hidden topics in large, unlabelled text datasets. It is widely applied in fields such as information retrieval, content summarisation, and trend analysis across various disciplines.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Saranzaya Magsarjav , Melissa Humphries , Jonathan Tuke , Lewis Mitchell

We introduce supervised latent Dirichlet allocation (sLDA), a statistical model of labelled documents. The model accommodates a variety of response types. We derive an approximate maximum-likelihood procedure for parameter estimation, which…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2010-03-04 David M. Blei , Jon D. McAuliffe

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a topic model widely used in natural language processing and machine learning. Most approaches to training the model rely on iterative algorithms, which makes it difficult to run LDA on big corpora that…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-10-23 Alexander Terenin , Måns Magnusson , Leif Jonsson , David Draper

Context: Topic modeling finds human-readable structures in unstructured textual data. A widely used topic modeler is Latent Dirichlet allocation. When run on different datasets, LDA suffers from "order effects" i.e. different topics are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Amritanshu Agrawal , Wei Fu , Tim Menzies

Theoretical and empirical research on evolutionary computation methods complement each other by providing two fundamentally different approaches towards a better understanding of black-box optimization heuristics. In discrete optimization,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-08-20 Carola Doerr , Furong Ye , Sander van Rijn , Hao Wang , Thomas Bäck

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

We present LDAExplore, a tool to visualize topic distributions in a given document corpus that are generated using Topic Modeling methods. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is one of the basic methods that is predominantly used to generate…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2015-07-24 Ashwinkumar Ganesan , Kiante Brantley , Shimei Pan , Jian Chen

Bayesian optimization has recently emerged as a popular method for the sample-efficient optimization of expensive black-box functions. However, the application to high-dimensional problems with several thousand observations remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-26 David Eriksson , Michael Pearce , Jacob R Gardner , Ryan Turner , Matthias Poloczek

Traditional topic models such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) have been widely used to uncover latent structures in text corpora, but they often struggle to integrate auxiliary information such as metadata, user attributes, or document…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Biyi Fang , Truong Vo , Kripa Rajshekhar , Diego Klabjan

Learning-augmented algorithms are a prominent recent development in beyond worst-case analysis. In this framework, a problem instance is provided with a prediction (``advice'') from a machine-learning oracle, which provides partial…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Idan Attias , Xing Gao , Lev Reyzin

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 2015-03-19 Jia Zeng , William K. Cheung , Jiming Liu

Pre-trained language models have led to a new state-of-the-art in many NLP tasks. However, for topic modeling, statistical generative models such as LDA are still prevalent, which do not easily allow incorporating contextual word vectors.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Johannes Schneider

In this survey, we introduce Meta-Black-Box-Optimization~(MetaBBO) as an emerging avenue within the Evolutionary Computation~(EC) community, which incorporates Meta-learning approaches to assist automated algorithm design. Despite the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-01 Zeyuan Ma , Hongshu Guo , Yue-Jiao Gong , Jun Zhang , Kay Chen Tan

In this paper, a new sequential surrogate-based optimization (SSBO) algorithm is developed, which aims to improve the global search ability and local search efficiency for the global optimization of expensive black-box models. The proposed…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-11-30 Chunlin Gong , Xu Li , Hua Su , Jinlei Guo , Liangxian Gu

Existing studies in black-box optimization for machine learning suffer from low generalizability, caused by a typically selective choice of problem instances used for training and testing different optimization algorithms. Among other…