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| author | Granese, Federica Navet, Benjamin Villata, Serena Bouveyron, Charles |
| author_facet | Granese, Federica Navet, Benjamin Villata, Serena Bouveyron, Charles |
| contents | Topic modeling is a key component in unsupervised learning, employed to identify topics within a corpus of textual data. The rapid growth of social media generates an ever-growing volume of textual data daily, making online topic modeling methods essential for managing these data streams that continuously arrive over time. This paper introduces a novel approach to online topic modeling named StreamETM. This approach builds on the Embedded Topic Model (ETM) to handle data streams by merging models learned on consecutive partial document batches using unbalanced optimal transport. Additionally, an online change point detection algorithm is employed to identify shifts in topics over time, enabling the identification of significant changes in the dynamics of text streams. Numerical experiments on simulated and real-world data show StreamETM outperforming competitors. We provide the code publicly available at https://github.com/fgranese/StreamETM. |
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| spellingShingle | Merging Embedded Topics with Optimal Transport for Online Topic Modeling on Data Streams Granese, Federica Navet, Benjamin Villata, Serena Bouveyron, Charles Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Topic modeling is a key component in unsupervised learning, employed to identify topics within a corpus of textual data. The rapid growth of social media generates an ever-growing volume of textual data daily, making online topic modeling methods essential for managing these data streams that continuously arrive over time. This paper introduces a novel approach to online topic modeling named StreamETM. This approach builds on the Embedded Topic Model (ETM) to handle data streams by merging models learned on consecutive partial document batches using unbalanced optimal transport. Additionally, an online change point detection algorithm is employed to identify shifts in topics over time, enabling the identification of significant changes in the dynamics of text streams. Numerical experiments on simulated and real-world data show StreamETM outperforming competitors. We provide the code publicly available at https://github.com/fgranese/StreamETM. |
| title | Merging Embedded Topics with Optimal Transport for Online Topic Modeling on Data Streams |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07711 |