Topic models are widely used to discover the latent representation of a set of documents. The two canonical models are latent Dirichlet allocation, and Gaussian latent Dirichlet allocation, where the former uses multinomial distributions over words, and the latter uses multivariate Gaussian distributions over pre-train…
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LDTA expands LDA's topic modeling capacity with tree-structured priors.
problem Limited expressiveness of Dirichlet priors in LDA for complex topic relationships.
method Introduces Latent Dirichlet-Tree Allocation (LDTA) with Dirichlet-Tree (DT) priors, and develops universal mean-field variational inference and Expectation Propagation.
result LDTA enables expressive, tree-structured priors over topic proportions, expanding modeling capacity of LDA.
NMF with specific constraints is equivalent to LDA.
problem Dimensionality reduction of non-negative data.
method NMF with normalization constraints and Dirichlet prior.
result NMF with these constraints is equivalent to LDA.
Paper calculates the exact error of LDA models.
problem Bayesian generalization error in Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA).
method Theoretical analysis of learning coefficient using algebraic geometry.
result Exact asymptotic form of LDA's generalization error.
Derives VMP for LDA, simplifying inference for topic modeling.
problem Manual derivation of VMP equations for LDA is challenging and time-consuming.
method Detailed derivation of VMP update equations for LDA.
result Enables easier implementation of VMP for LDA models.
We study the problem of multimodal generative modelling of images based on generative adversarial networks (GANs). Despite the success of existing methods, they often ignore the underlying structure of vision data or its multimodal generation characteristics. To address this problem, we introduce the Dirichlet prior fo…
A new algorithm improves topic model accuracy in small data sets.
problem Limited data leads to inaccurate topic model identification.
method Developed a novel variational message passing algorithm (ALBU) for LDA.
result ALBU learns latent distributions more accurately than Variational Bayes (VB) in small data sets.
nnLDA combines neural and probabilistic methods for better topic modeling with side information.
problem Lack of integration of auxiliary information in traditional topic models.
method nnLDA integrates side information through a neural prior mechanism, optimizing both neural and probabilistic components.
result nnLDA outperforms traditional models in topic coherence, perplexity, and classification.
We introduce incremental variational inference and apply it to latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA). Incremental variational inference is inspired by incremental EM and provides an alternative to stochastic variational inference. Incremental LDA can process massive document collections, does not require to set a learning …
New model identifies microbial subcommunities robustly, accounting for cross-sample heterogeneity.
problem Inference in LDA is sensitive to the number of subcommunities and often creates artificial ones.
method Incorporates logistic-tree normal (LTN) model into LDA to account for cross-sample heterogeneity.
result Restores robustness of inference and identifies meaningful subcommunities.
Study finds common poetic themes across languages over time.
problem Understanding thematic evolution in different poetic traditions.
method Applied Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) to poetry corpora of four languages.
result Identified common themes and their temporal trends across poetic traditions.
Deep Latent Dirichlet Allocation with Topic-Layer-Adaptive Stochastic Gradient Riemannian MCMCstat.ML
It is challenging to develop stochastic gradient based scalable inference for deep discrete latent variable models (LVMs), due to the difficulties in not only computing the gradients, but also adapting the step sizes to different latent factors and hidden layers. For the Poisson gamma belief network (PGBN), a recently …
Topic models (e.g., pLSA, LDA, SLDA) have been widely used for segmenting imagery. These models are confined to crisp segmentation. Yet, there are many images in which some regions cannot be assigned a crisp label (e.g., transition regions between a foggy sky and the ground or between sand and water at a beach). In the…
Bayesian inference for topics in documents with many potential causes.
problem Estimating topic distributions in documents with many potential causes and few observations.
method Exact Bayesian inference using a linear-time algorithm with a simple formula.
result Exact Bayesian inference can be computed in linear time for a given upper bound on observations.
Improved topic modeling captures temporal relationships in speech.
problem Lack of temporal information in LDA for speech analysis.
method Temporal Markov chain extension to LDA for acoustic unit discovery.
result Improved phone segmentation results compared to base LDA.
ALBU improves LDA performance on small datasets.
problem Limited data impairs variational Bayes in LDA.
method Approximate Loopy Belief message passing algorithm.
result ALBU learns latent distributions more accurately than VB, especially for smaller data sets.
The latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) model is a widely-used latent variable model in machine learning for text analysis. Inference for this model typically involves a single-site collapsed Gibbs sampling step for latent variables associated with observations. The efficiency of the sampling is critical to the success o…
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 widely used in statistical modeling as a dimension reduction tool and combine it wi…
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 narratives, and explores their associated trends over time. The time trends will then be…
Feature extraction has gained increasing attention in the field of machine learning, as in order to detect patterns, extract information, or predict future observations from big data, the urge of informative features is crucial. The process of extracting features is highly linked to dimensionality reduction as it impli…
Despite many years of research into latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA), applying LDA to collections of non-categorical items is still challenging. Yet many problems with much richer data share a similar structure and could benefit from the vast literature on LDA. We propose logistic LDA, a novel discriminative variant o…
For large scale on-line inference problems the update strategy is critical for performance. We derive an adaptive scan Gibbs sampler that optimizes the update frequency by selecting an optimum mini-batch size. We demonstrate performance of our adaptive batch-size Gibbs sampler by comparing it against the collapsed Gibb…
Proposes a method to evaluate meta-learning performance based on task similarity.
problem Meta-learning performance evaluation ignores task similarity, leading to biased results.
method Generative approach using Latent Dirichlet Allocation to analyze task similarity.
result The proposed method provides an insightful evaluation of meta-learning algorithms, matching common intuition.
Privacy preserving networks can be modelled as decentralized networks (e.g., sensors, connected objects, smartphones), where communication between nodes of the network is not controlled by an all-knowing, central node. For this type of networks, the main issue is to gather/learn global information on the network (e.g.,…
A 'Gibbs-Newton' Technique for Enhanced Inference of Multivariate Polya Parameters and Topic Modelscs.LG
Hyper-parameters play a major role in the learning and inference process of latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA). In order to begin the LDA latent variables learning process, these hyper-parameters values need to be pre-determined. We propose an extension for LDA that we call 'Latent Dirichlet allocation Gibbs Newton' (LD…
Kernel Topic Modelscs.LG
Latent Dirichlet Allocation models discrete data as a mixture of discrete distributions, using Dirichlet beliefs over the mixture weights. We study a variation of this concept, in which the documents' mixture weight beliefs are replaced with squashed Gaussian distributions. This allows documents to be associated with e…
Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a popular topic modeling technique for discovery of hidden semantic architecture of text datasets, and plays a fundamental role in many machine learning applications. However, like many other machine learning algorithms, the process of training a LDA model may leak the sensitive inf…
Topic models (e.g., pLSA, LDA, sLDA) have been widely used for segmenting imagery. However, these models are confined to crisp segmentation, forcing a visual word (i.e., an image patch) to belong to one and only one topic. Yet, there are many images in which some regions cannot be assigned a crisp categorical label (e.…
The paper proposes a new recommender system combining ratings and textual reviews.
problem Lack of using textual reviews in recommender systems.
method Combines Latent Factor Model with Latent Dirichlet Allocation for textual reviews.
result Combining textual reviews with ratings improves recommendation quality.
Understanding the adaptation process of plants to drought stress is essential in improving management practices, breeding strategies as well as engineering viable crops for a sustainable agriculture in the coming decades. Hyper-spectral imaging provides a particularly promising approach to gain such understanding since…
Corrected moment-based methods improve inference in topic model regression.
problem Inferential difficulties in topic model plug-in workflow for regression.
method Corrected spectral moment methods for LDA, response-weighted word moments.
result Direct identification of regression coefficients without estimating topic shares.
New method for MAP inference using Benders' decomposition.
problem Finite-time convergence guarantee for MAP inference.
method Sequentially adding constraints using Benders' decomposition.
result Higher optimal posterior value compared to other methods.
Labeled Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LLDA) is an extension of the standard unsupervised Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithm, to address multi-label learning tasks. Previous work has shown it to perform in par with other state-of-the-art multi-label methods. Nonetheless, with increasing label sets sizes LLDA enc…
An increasing number of people are using online social networking services (SNSs), and a significant amount of information related to experiences in consumption is shared in this new media form. Text mining is an emerging technique for mining useful information from the web. We aim at discovering in particular tweets s…
Paper constructs a CRRIX index to assess cryptocurrency market risks from regulatory changes.
problem Lack of indices quantifying regulatory risks in cryptocurrencies.
method CRRIX index based on news coverage frequency, using Latent Dirichlet Allocation and Hellinger distance.
result CRRIX successfully captures major policy-changing moments and synchronizes with market volatility.
Recent advances in topic models have explored complicated structured distributions to represent topic correlation. For example, the pachinko allocation model (PAM) captures arbitrary, nested, and possibly sparse correlations between topics using a directed acyclic graph (DAG). While PAM provides more flexibility and gr…
In this technical report, we present jLDADMM---an easy-to-use Java toolkit for conventional topic models. jLDADMM is released to provide alternatives for topic modeling on normal or short texts. It provides implementations of the Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic model and the one-topic-per-document Dirichlet Multinomi…
To scale non-parametric extensions of probabilistic topic models such as Latent Dirichlet allocation to larger data sets, practitioners rely increasingly on parallel and distributed systems. In this work, we study data-parallel training for the hierarchical Dirichlet process (HDP) topic model. Based upon a representati…
We review three algorithms for Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). Two of them are variational inference algorithms: Variational Bayesian inference and Online Variational Bayesian inference and one is Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm -- Collapsed Gibbs sampling. We compare their time complexity and performance.…
The problem of topic modeling can be seen as a generalization of the clustering problem, in that it posits that observations are generated due to multiple latent factors (e.g., the words in each document are generated as a mixture of several active topics, as opposed to just one). This increased representational power …
We present a hybrid algorithm for Bayesian topic models that combines the efficiency of sparse Gibbs sampling with the scalability of online stochastic inference. We used our algorithm to analyze a corpus of 1.2 million books (33 billion words) with thousands of topics. Our approach reduces the bias of variational infe…
Model clusters authors and topics in short texts like social media posts.
problem Analysis of short texts is difficult due to brevity and lack of context.
method Expands Latent Dirichlet Allocation to model word dependencies and cluster users.
result Improves topic and user clustering, outperforming traditional methods.
Many modern data analysis problems involve inferences from streaming data. However, streaming data is not easily amenable to the standard probabilistic modeling approaches, which assume that we condition on finite data. We develop population variational Bayes, a new approach for using Bayesian modeling to analyze strea…
New portfolios outperform traditional methods by using factor weights.
problem Improving portfolio allocation in markets driven by factors.
method Factor-weighted Dirichlet portfolios outperform uniform Dirichlet portfolios.
result Factor-weighted portfolios outperform uniformly sampled portfolios in market returns.
We describe the use of Non-Negative Matrix Factorization (NMF) and Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) algorithms to perform topic mining and labelling applied to retail customer communications in attempt to characterize the subject of customers inquiries. In this paper we compare both algorithms in the topic mining perf…
System detects relevant financial news and predictions from unstructured text.
problem Manual extraction of relevant financial information from news is cumbersome and error-prone.
method Topic modeling with LDA, co-reference resolution, multi-paragraph segmentation, and temporal analysis.
result ROUGE-L values for relevant text and predictions/forecasts were 0.662 and 0.982, respectively.
This paper presents studies on a deterministic annealing algorithm based on quantum annealing for variational Bayes (QAVB) inference, which can be seen as an extension of the simulated annealing for variational Bayes (SAVB) inference. QAVB is as easy as SAVB to implement. Experiments revealed QAVB finds a better local …
This paper provides a holistic study of how stock prices vary in their response to financial disclosures across different topics. Thereby, we specifically shed light into the extensive amount of filings for which no a priori categorization of their content exists. For this purpose, we utilize an approach from data mini…