Agentopic: A Generative AI Agent Workflow for Explainable Topic Modeling

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Autores principales: Kok-Shun, Brice Valentin, Chan, Johnny, Peko, Gabrielle, Sundaram, David
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Publicado: 2026
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author Kok-Shun, Brice Valentin
Chan, Johnny
Peko, Gabrielle
Sundaram, David
author_facet Kok-Shun, Brice Valentin
Chan, Johnny
Peko, Gabrielle
Sundaram, David
contents Agentopic is a novel agent-based workflow for explainable topic modeling that leverages the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing topic modeling approaches such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and BERTopic often lack transparency on how topics are assigned or grouped. Agentopic addresses this by using multiple agents that collaboratively perform topic identification, validation, hierarchical grouping, and natural language explanation. This design enables users to trace the reasoning behind topic assignments, enhancing interpretability without sacrificing accuracy. When seeded with topics from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) dataset, Agentopic achieves an F1-score of 0.95, matching GPT-4.1, improving on LDA (0.93), and close to BERTopic (0.98). We used Agentopic to augment the BBC dataset with generated explanations to improve the dataset's richness and context. The unseeded Agentopic generated 2045 semantically coherent topics organized across six hierarchical levels, vastly enriching the original five-category structure. By embedding explainability throughout the workflow, Agentopic offers an interpretable alternative to black-box models, making it particularly valuable for crucial applications like finance and healthcare.
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spellingShingle Agentopic: A Generative AI Agent Workflow for Explainable Topic Modeling
Kok-Shun, Brice Valentin
Chan, Johnny
Peko, Gabrielle
Sundaram, David
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Agentopic is a novel agent-based workflow for explainable topic modeling that leverages the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing topic modeling approaches such as Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) and BERTopic often lack transparency on how topics are assigned or grouped. Agentopic addresses this by using multiple agents that collaboratively perform topic identification, validation, hierarchical grouping, and natural language explanation. This design enables users to trace the reasoning behind topic assignments, enhancing interpretability without sacrificing accuracy. When seeded with topics from the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) dataset, Agentopic achieves an F1-score of 0.95, matching GPT-4.1, improving on LDA (0.93), and close to BERTopic (0.98). We used Agentopic to augment the BBC dataset with generated explanations to improve the dataset's richness and context. The unseeded Agentopic generated 2045 semantically coherent topics organized across six hierarchical levels, vastly enriching the original five-category structure. By embedding explainability throughout the workflow, Agentopic offers an interpretable alternative to black-box models, making it particularly valuable for crucial applications like finance and healthcare.
title Agentopic: A Generative AI Agent Workflow for Explainable Topic Modeling
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.00833