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Learning topic models by belief propagation.

Jia Zeng1, William K Cheung, Jiming Liu

  • 1School of Computer Science and Technology, Soochow University, Suzhou 215006, China. j.zeng@ieee.org

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
|March 23, 2013
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Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling is enhanced using factor graphs and loopy belief propagation (BP). This BP approach offers a competitive and potentially generic method for LDA and its variants in various applications.

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Area of Science:

  • Computational statistics
  • Machine learning
  • Artificial intelligence

Background:

  • Latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) is a key hierarchical Bayesian model for probabilistic topic modeling.
  • LDA finds applications in text mining, computer vision, and computational biology.
  • Existing inference methods include variational Bayes (VB) and collapsed Gibbs sampling (GS).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To represent collapsed LDA as a factor graph.
  • To enable approximate inference and parameter estimation using loopy belief propagation (BP).
  • To evaluate BP's performance against established LDA inference methods.

Main Methods:

  • Factor graph representation of collapsed LDA.
  • Application of the loopy belief propagation (BP) algorithm for approximate inference.
  • Experimental validation on large-scale document datasets.

Main Results:

  • The proposed BP algorithm is competitive with VB and GS in terms of speed and accuracy.
  • BP demonstrates effectiveness on four large-scale document datasets.
  • BP serves as a potential generic scheme for learning LDA variants.

Conclusions:

  • Factor graph representation facilitates BP for LDA inference.
  • BP offers a viable and efficient alternative for LDA and its variants like ATM and RTM.
  • The BP approach shows promise for broad applicability in topic modeling research.