FASTopic: Pretrained Transformer is a Fast, Adaptive, Stable, and Transferable Topic Model

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Autores principales: Wu, Xiaobao, Nguyen, Thong, Zhang, Delvin Ce, Wang, William Yang, Luu, Anh Tuan
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Publicado: 2024
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author Wu, Xiaobao
Nguyen, Thong
Zhang, Delvin Ce
Wang, William Yang
Luu, Anh Tuan
author_facet Wu, Xiaobao
Nguyen, Thong
Zhang, Delvin Ce
Wang, William Yang
Luu, Anh Tuan
contents Topic models have been evolving rapidly over the years, from conventional to recent neural models. However, existing topic models generally struggle with either effectiveness, efficiency, or stability, highly impeding their practical applications. In this paper, we propose FASTopic, a fast, adaptive, stable, and transferable topic model. FASTopic follows a new paradigm: Dual Semantic-relation Reconstruction (DSR). Instead of previous conventional, VAE-based, or clustering-based methods, DSR directly models the semantic relations among document embeddings from a pretrained Transformer and learnable topic and word embeddings. By reconstructing through these semantic relations, DSR discovers latent topics. This brings about a neat and efficient topic modeling framework. We further propose a novel Embedding Transport Plan (ETP) method. Rather than early straightforward approaches, ETP explicitly regularizes the semantic relations as optimal transport plans. This addresses the relation bias issue and thus leads to effective topic modeling. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our FASTopic shows superior effectiveness, efficiency, adaptivity, stability, and transferability, compared to state-of-the-art baselines across various scenarios.
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spellingShingle FASTopic: Pretrained Transformer is a Fast, Adaptive, Stable, and Transferable Topic Model
Wu, Xiaobao
Nguyen, Thong
Zhang, Delvin Ce
Wang, William Yang
Luu, Anh Tuan
Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
Topic models have been evolving rapidly over the years, from conventional to recent neural models. However, existing topic models generally struggle with either effectiveness, efficiency, or stability, highly impeding their practical applications. In this paper, we propose FASTopic, a fast, adaptive, stable, and transferable topic model. FASTopic follows a new paradigm: Dual Semantic-relation Reconstruction (DSR). Instead of previous conventional, VAE-based, or clustering-based methods, DSR directly models the semantic relations among document embeddings from a pretrained Transformer and learnable topic and word embeddings. By reconstructing through these semantic relations, DSR discovers latent topics. This brings about a neat and efficient topic modeling framework. We further propose a novel Embedding Transport Plan (ETP) method. Rather than early straightforward approaches, ETP explicitly regularizes the semantic relations as optimal transport plans. This addresses the relation bias issue and thus leads to effective topic modeling. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that our FASTopic shows superior effectiveness, efficiency, adaptivity, stability, and transferability, compared to state-of-the-art baselines across various scenarios.
title FASTopic: Pretrained Transformer is a Fast, Adaptive, Stable, and Transferable Topic Model
topic Computation and Language
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.17978