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Geometric Dirichlet Means Algorithm for topic inference

NeurIPS 2016 · Probabilistic and scientific modeling › Variational and generative sampling · approach: Variational methods for sequence models · 1 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Use tuned extension parameters (tGDM) instead of default extensionGDM · Simulation (varying N_m, M, eta)minimum-matching Euclidean distance and perplexityHelped
Replace RecoverKL with GDM as topic estimatorNIPS corpus · NIPS K=5 to 20perplexity: GDM 763-1269 vs RecoverKL 1378-1586Helped
Use weighted k-means with document lengths as weights (weighted GDM vs unweighted) (ablation)GDM · Documents of varying size (50 to 1500)perplexity and matching distanceHelped
Use tuned extension parameters with weighted GDM relative to defaultGDM · Simulation with tuning of extension parameters for K=4 examplequalitative fit to Gibbs samplingNo clear effect
Use document-length-independent GDM in short documents (N_m=50) vs longGDM · Simulation N_m=50, M up to 15000performanceNo clear effect
Use anchor words inserted manually for RecoverKLRecoverKL · Simulation with eta<=0.3 vs eta>=0.5, N_m=50topic estimation accuracyMixed
Use nGDM (nonparametric, penalized weighted k-means) vs KL DP-meansnGDM · Simulation varying alpha 0.01 to 2perplexityMixed

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