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48 results for topic structure

GraphSTONE uses topic models to capture graph structures, improving GCN performance.

problem GCNs focus too much on node features and not enough on graph structures.
method GraphSTONE employs topic models of graphs to capture structural topics, which guide the aggregation of node features.
result GraphSTONE outperforms GCNs in performance, efficiency, and interpretability.

Recently, considerable research effort has been devoted to developing deep architectures for topic models to learn topic structures. Although several deep models have been proposed to learn better topic proportions of documents, how to leverage the benefits of deep structures for learning word distributions of topics h…

2018-11-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Topic models are probabilistic models for discovering topical themes in collections of documents. In real world applications, these models provide us with the means of organizing what would otherwise be unstructured collections. They can help us cluster a huge collection into different topics or find a subset of the co…

2013-02-28abs ↗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.

The last decade has seen great progress in both dynamic network modeling and topic modeling. This paper draws upon both areas to create a Bayesian method that allows topic discovery to inform the latent network model and the network structure to facilitate topic identification. We apply this method to the 467 top polit…

2016-10-18abs ↗pdf ↗

Enhances topic-metadata relationship modeling using Bayesian methods.

problem Estimating relationships between latent topics and metadata in topic modeling.
method Proposes modifications to the method of composition, using Beta regression and a fully Bayesian approach.
result Improves quantification of uncertainty in topic-metadata relationships.

Geometric method captures rare topics and temporal alignment in co-author networks.

problem Missing rare topics and smooth temporal alignment in topic modeling.
method Integrates multimodal text and co-author network data using Hellinger distances and Ward's linkage.
result Effective identification of rare topics and visualization of topic drift over time.

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…

2012-06-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Traditional works on community detection from observations of information cascade assume that a single adjacency matrix parametrizes all the observed cascades. However, in reality the connection structure usually does not stay the same across cascades. For example, different people have different topics of interest, th…

2018-06-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural NMF discovers hierarchical topics in multilayer data.

problem Detecting latent hierarchical structure in multilayer data.
method Recursive application of nonnegative matrix factorization (NMF) in layers with backpropagation optimization.
result Neural NMF outperforms other hierarchical NMF methods in synthetic and real-world datasets.

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.

Originally designed to model text, topic modeling has become a powerful tool for uncovering latent structure in domains including medicine, finance, and vision. The goals for the model vary depending on the application: in some cases, the discovered topics may be used for prediction or some other downstream task. In ot…

2014-10-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes a Renyi entropy-based method for tuning hierarchical topic models.

problem Tuning hierarchical topic models, especially determining the number of topics at each level, is challenging.
method The paper introduces a Renyi entropy-based metric for quality assessment and a practical tuning concept.
result The proposed method can estimate the number of topics for two hierarchical levels in hARTM model.

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.

Traditional Relational Topic Models provide a way to discover the hidden topics from a document network. Many theoretical and practical tasks, such as dimensional reduction, document clustering, link prediction, benefit from this revealed knowledge. However, existing relational topic models are based on an assumption t…

2015-03-30abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

Topic models can provide us with an insight into the underlying latent structure of a large corpus of documents. A range of methods have been proposed in the literature, including probabilistic topic models and techniques based on matrix factorization. However, in both cases, standard implementations rely on stochastic…

2017-02-23abs ↗pdf ↗

We present a new topic model that generates documents by sampling a topic for one whole sentence at a time, and generating the words in the sentence using an RNN decoder that is conditioned on the topic of the sentence. We argue that this novel formalism will help us not only visualize and model the topical discourse s…

2017-08-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Detects changes in topic proportions over time in large text datasets.

problem Unsupervised detection of structural changes in topic distributions over time.
method Specialised temporal topic model with changepoint detection, approximate inference using sample splitting and likelihood ratio statistic.
result Automated detection of changepoints in topic proportions, facilitating interpretable results.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We present sparse topical coding (STC), a non-probabilistic formulation of topic models for discovering latent representations of large collections of data. Unlike probabilistic topic models, STC relaxes the normalization constraint of admixture proportions and the constraint of defining a normalized likelihood functio…

2012-02-14abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper develops a decision support system for hierarchical text classification of conference proceedings.

problem Classifying documents with a fixed hierarchical structure of topics.
method Developed a weighted hierarchical similarity function to calculate topic relevance, using entropy of words to estimate weights.
result The weighted hierarchical similarity function improves ranking accuracy compared to other methods.

We consider the problem of estimating the latent structure of a social network based on the observed information diffusion events, or cascades, where the observations for a given cascade consist of only the timestamps of infection for infected nodes but not the source of the infection. Most of the existing work on this…

2017-09-06abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

Topic modeling analyzes documents to learn meaningful patterns of words. For documents collected in sequence, dynamic topic models capture how these patterns vary over time. We develop the dynamic embedded topic model (D-ETM), a generative model of documents that combines dynamic latent Dirichlet allocation (D-LDA) and…

2019-07-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Topic models have been extensively used to organize and interpret the contents of large, unstructured corpora of text documents. Although topic models often perform well on traditional training vs. test set evaluations, it is often the case that the results of a topic model do not align with human interpretation. This …

2017-06-12abs ↗pdf ↗

Traditional topic models do not account for semantic regularities in language. Recent distributional representations of words exhibit semantic consistency over directional metrics such as cosine similarity. However, neither categorical nor Gaussian observational distributions used in existing topic models are appropria…

2016-04-01abs ↗pdf ↗

Model criticism tool evaluates text coherence and structure in generated long-form text.

problem Evaluate the high-level structure of generated text for coherence, coreference, and topicality.
method Apply model criticism in latent space to compare real and generated data distributions.
result Transformer-based models struggle with maintaining structural coherence and coreference.

In this work we address the problem of argument search. The purpose of argument search is the distillation of pro and contra arguments for requested topics from large text corpora. In previous works, the usual approach is to use a standard search engine to extract text parts which are relevant to the given topic and su…

2019-05-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Many scientific and engineering fields involve analyzing network data. For document networks, relational topic models (RTMs) provide a probabilistic generative process to describe both the link structure and document contents, and they have shown promise on predicting network structures and discovering latent topic rep…

2013-10-09abs ↗pdf ↗

Online voting is an emerging feature in social networks, in which users can express their attitudes toward various issues and show their unique interest. Online voting imposes new challenges on recommendation, because the propagation of votings heavily depends on the structure of social networks as well as the content …

2017-12-03abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper presents a multi-label topic model for financial texts with high performance and insights into market reactions.

problem Analyzing financial text data for market reactions and understanding topic interactions.
method Trained a multi-label topic model on a financial text database, achieved high macro F1 score, and investigated topic interactions.
result Model achieves high performance (macro F1 > 85%) and reveals significant market reactions to topic co-occurrences.