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48 results for latent topic analysis

The paper investigates topic models, ensuring their statistical identifiability and accuracy.

problem Lack of formal theoretical investigation of topic model identifiability and estimation accuracy.
method Proposes a maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) based on integrated likelihood, introducing new geometric identifiability conditions.
result Introduces weaker conditions for topic model identifiability, allowing a broader investigation.

Top2Vec finds topic vectors from documents and words without needing stop words or custom settings.

problem Topic modeling weaknesses, including needing known topics, stop words, and custom settings.
method Joint document and word semantic embedding to find topic vectors automatically.
result Top2Vec finds more informative and representative topics than probabilistic models.

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.

Topic models have achieved significant successes in analyzing large-scale text corpus. In practical applications, we are always confronted with the challenge of model selection, i.e., how to appropriately set the number of topics. Following recent advances in topic model inference via tensor decomposition, we make a fi…

2014-10-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Hierarchical latent tree analysis (HLTA) is recently proposed as a new method for topic detection. It differs fundamentally from the LDA-based methods in terms of topic definition, topic-document relationship, and learning method. It has been shown to discover significantly more coherent topics and better topic hierarc…

2015-08-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Social network analysis (SNA), which is a research field describing and modeling the social connection of a certain group of people, is popular among network services. Our topic words analysis project is a SNA method to visualize the topic words among emails from Obama.com to accounts registered in Columbus, Ohio. Base…

2014-05-15abs ↗pdf ↗

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 …

2012-04-30abs ↗pdf ↗

The majority of medical documents and electronic health records (EHRs) are in text format that poses a challenge for data processing and finding relevant documents. Looking for ways to automatically retrieve the enormous amount of health and medical knowledge has always been an intriguing topic. Powerful methods have b…

2017-05-02abs ↗pdf ↗

LLMs encode latent topic distributions, suggesting Bayesian inference.

problem Capturing topic structure from large language models.
method Connecting LLM optimization to implicit Bayesian inference and de Finetti's theorem.
result LLMs recover latent topic distributions, matching LDA-generated topics.

We propose new algorithms for topic modeling when the number of topics is unknown. Our approach relies on an analysis of the concentration of mass and angular geometry of the topic simplex, a convex polytope constructed by taking the convex hull of vertices representing the latent topics. Our algorithms are shown in pr…

2017-10-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhances topic models to better handle polysemous words.

problem Lack of polysemy handling in Gaussian latent Dirichlet allocation.
method Introduces a hierarchical structure to capture polysemy in Gaussian latent Dirichlet allocation.
result Significantly improves polysemy detection and provides more parsimonious topic representations.

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 models (HLTMs). The variables at the bottom level of an HLTM are observed binary va…

2016-05-21abs ↗pdf ↗

Aggregates models from different datasets using shared latent structures.

problem Aggregating models from heterogeneous datasets with shared latent structures.
method Bayesian nonparametrics for identifying correspondences among local model parameterizations.
result Framework successfully aggregates various model types across different applications.

Develops a flexible deep autoencoding topic model with scalable hybrid Bayesian inference.

problem Flexible and interpretable document analysis models.
method DATM with hybrid Bayesian inference, including topic-layer-adaptive stochastic gradient Riemannian MCMC and Weibull variational encoder.
result Demonstrates scalability and efficacy on big corpora in unsupervised and supervised learning tasks.

Study uses topic modeling and sentiment analysis to uncover hedge fund performance insights.

problem Hedge fund opacity and limited disclosure make them hard to analyze.
method Applied topic modeling and sentiment analysis to hedge fund documents using DistilBERT and Top2Vec.
result Automated topic modeling and sentiment analysis can predict hedge fund performance.

One of the main computational and scientific challenges in the modern age is to extract useful information from unstructured texts. Topic models are one popular machine-learning approach which infers the latent topical structure of a collection of documents. Despite their success --- in particular of its most widely us…

2017-08-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Hybrid approach combines topic and graph embeddings for legal document clustering.

problem Challenges in classifying legal texts due to domain-specific language and limited labeled data.
method Combines unsupervised topic and graph embeddings with a supervised model.
result Improves clustering quality over text-only or graph-only embeddings.

Latent Dirichlet analysis, or topic modeling, is a flexible latent variable framework for modeling high-dimensional sparse count data. Various learning algorithms have been developed in recent years, including collapsed Gibbs sampling, variational inference, and maximum a posteriori estimation, and this variety motivat…

2012-05-09abs ↗pdf ↗

New framework models stock relationships and investor expectations for better financial market predictions.

problem Limited by predefined stock relationships and immediate effects, current financial market analysis methods need improvement.
method Jointly models investor expectations and automatically mines latent stock relationships.
result Annual return exceeds 10%, surpassing existing benchmarks.

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.

AOBTM adapts online topic modeling for short app reviews, revealing coherent topics over time.

problem Challenges in inferring latent topics from short, dynamic app reviews over multiple versions.
method Adaptive Online Biterm Topic Model (AOBTM) that addresses sparsity and considers statistical data from previous versions.
result AOBTM finds more coherent topics and outperforms state-of-the-art baselines.

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.

We propose a topic modeling approach to the prediction of preferences in pairwise comparisons. We develop a new generative model for pairwise comparisons that accounts for multiple shared latent rankings that are prevalent in a population of users. This new model also captures inconsistent user behavior in a natural wa…

2014-12-11abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

FACTM combines FA with correlated topic modeling for structured data integration.

problem Integrating structured data modalities like text and single cell sequencing.
method Bayesian FACTM model combining FA and correlated topic modeling with variational inference.
result FACTM outperforms other methods in identifying clusters in structured data and integrating them with simple modalities.

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…

2012-05-04abs ↗pdf ↗

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 predicting new contents. Unlike conventional topic models such as latent Dirichle…

2017-05-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Predicts EHR features that improve prediction, learning coherent topics.

problem Balancing prediction quality and coherence in EHR topic models.
method Prediction-focused topic model that uses supervisory signal to retain relevant features.
result Prediction-focused topic models learn more coherent topics while maintaining competitive predictions.