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Dirichlet belief networks for topic structure learning

NeurIPS 2018 · Architectures and efficiency › RNNs and normalization · approach: Layer-wise analysis of language models · 16 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Replace the simple word-distribution prior with three-layer DirBNPFA · WS, TMN, and Twitter; especially low training-word proportionsPer-heldout-word perplexity and NPMI topic coherenceHelped
Replace the simple word-distribution prior with three-layer DirBNGBN · WS, TMN, and TwitterNPMI topic coherenceHelped
Use one DirBN layer instead of three (ablation)PFA+DirBN · WS, TMN, and TwitterNPMI topic coherence: 0.013±0.003 -> 0.021±0.005; 0.031±0.003 -> 0.046±0.003; 0.019±0.004 -> 0.024±0.001Hurt
Use one DirBN layer instead of three (ablation)GBN+DirBN · WS, TMN, and TwitterNPMI topic coherence: 0.015±0.005 -> 0.018±0.006; 0.032±0.002 -> 0.048±0.003; 0.021±0.004 -> 0.025±0.003Hurt
Use a three-layer hierarchy on word distributions rather than only a one-layer construction (ablation)DirBN-equipped topic models · WS, TMN, and TwitterPer-heldout-word perplexityHelped
Use DirBN on word distributions rather than relying only on a hierarchical topic-proportion structureSparse-text topic models · WS, TMN, and TwitterPer-heldout-word perplexityHelped

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