Dirichlet belief networks for topic structure learning

He Zhao, Lan Du, Wray Buntine, Mingyuan Zhou

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Abstract

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 has not yet been rigorously studied. Here we propose a new multi-layer generative process on word distributions of topics, where each layer consists of a set of topics and each topic is drawn from a mixture of the topics of the layer above. As the topics in all layers can be directly interpreted by words, the proposed model is able to discover interpretable topic hierarchies. As a self-contained module, our model can be flexibly adapted to different kinds of topic models to improve their modelling accuracy and interpretability. Extensive experiments on text corpora demonstrate the advantages of the proposed model.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNIPS Proceedings
Subtitle of host publicationAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems 31 (NIPS 2018)
EditorsS. Bengio, H. Wallach, H. Larochelle, K. Grauman, N. Cesa-Bianchi, R. Garnett
Place of PublicationSan Diego CA USA
PublisherNeural Information Processing Systems (NIPS)
Pages7966-7977
Number of pages12
Publication statusPublished - 2018
EventAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems 2018 - Montreal Convention Center (Palais des Congrès de Montréal), Montreal , Canada
Duration: 2 Dec 20188 Dec 2018
Conference number: 31st
https://papers.nips.cc/book/advances-in-neural-information-processing-systems-31-2018 (Proceedings)

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ConferenceAdvances in Neural Information Processing Systems 2018
Abbreviated titleNIPS 2018
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityMontreal
Period2/12/188/12/18
OtherThe Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) is a multi-track machine learning and computational neuroscience conference that includes invited talks, demonstrations, symposia and oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. Following the conference, there are workshops which provide a less formal setting.
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