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Main Authors: González-Pizarro, Felipe, Carenini, Giuseppe
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17308
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author González-Pizarro, Felipe
Carenini, Giuseppe
author_facet González-Pizarro, Felipe
Carenini, Giuseppe
contents Neural topic models can successfully find coherent and diverse topics in textual data. However, they are limited in dealing with multimodal datasets (e.g., images and text). This paper presents the first systematic and comprehensive evaluation of multimodal topic modeling of documents containing both text and images. In the process, we propose two novel topic modeling solutions and two novel evaluation metrics. Overall, our evaluation on an unprecedented rich and diverse collection of datasets indicates that both of our models generate coherent and diverse topics. Nevertheless, the extent to which one method outperforms the other depends on the metrics and dataset combinations, which suggests further exploration of hybrid solutions in the future. Notably, our succinct human evaluation aligns with the outcomes determined by our proposed metrics. This alignment not only reinforces the credibility of our metrics but also highlights the potential for their application in guiding future multimodal topic modeling endeavors.
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spellingShingle Neural Multimodal Topic Modeling: A Comprehensive Evaluation
González-Pizarro, Felipe
Carenini, Giuseppe
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
I.2.7
Neural topic models can successfully find coherent and diverse topics in textual data. However, they are limited in dealing with multimodal datasets (e.g., images and text). This paper presents the first systematic and comprehensive evaluation of multimodal topic modeling of documents containing both text and images. In the process, we propose two novel topic modeling solutions and two novel evaluation metrics. Overall, our evaluation on an unprecedented rich and diverse collection of datasets indicates that both of our models generate coherent and diverse topics. Nevertheless, the extent to which one method outperforms the other depends on the metrics and dataset combinations, which suggests further exploration of hybrid solutions in the future. Notably, our succinct human evaluation aligns with the outcomes determined by our proposed metrics. This alignment not only reinforces the credibility of our metrics but also highlights the potential for their application in guiding future multimodal topic modeling endeavors.
title Neural Multimodal Topic Modeling: A Comprehensive Evaluation
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
I.2.7
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17308