Chronotome: Real-Time Topic Modeling for Streaming Embedding Spaces

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Auteurs principaux: Lim, Matte, Yeh, Catherine, Wattenberg, Martin, Viégas, Fernanda, Michalatos, Panagiotis
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Publié: 2025
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author Lim, Matte
Yeh, Catherine
Wattenberg, Martin
Viégas, Fernanda
Michalatos, Panagiotis
author_facet Lim, Matte
Yeh, Catherine
Wattenberg, Martin
Viégas, Fernanda
Michalatos, Panagiotis
contents Many real-world datasets -- from an artist's body of work to a person's social media history -- exhibit meaningful semantic changes over time that are difficult to capture with existing dimensionality reduction methods. To address this gap, we introduce a visualization technique that combines force-based projection and streaming clustering methods to build a spatial-temporal map of embeddings. Applying this technique, we create Chronotome, a tool for interactively exploring evolving themes in time-based data -- in real time. We demonstrate the utility of our approach through use cases on text and image data, showing how it offers a new lens for understanding the aesthetics and semantics of temporal datasets.
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spellingShingle Chronotome: Real-Time Topic Modeling for Streaming Embedding Spaces
Lim, Matte
Yeh, Catherine
Wattenberg, Martin
Viégas, Fernanda
Michalatos, Panagiotis
Human-Computer Interaction
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Many real-world datasets -- from an artist's body of work to a person's social media history -- exhibit meaningful semantic changes over time that are difficult to capture with existing dimensionality reduction methods. To address this gap, we introduce a visualization technique that combines force-based projection and streaming clustering methods to build a spatial-temporal map of embeddings. Applying this technique, we create Chronotome, a tool for interactively exploring evolving themes in time-based data -- in real time. We demonstrate the utility of our approach through use cases on text and image data, showing how it offers a new lens for understanding the aesthetics and semantics of temporal datasets.
title Chronotome: Real-Time Topic Modeling for Streaming Embedding Spaces
topic Human-Computer Interaction
Computation and Language
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01051