Summary of Fastopic: Pretrained Transformer Is a Fast, Adaptive, Stable, and Transferable Topic Model, by Xiaobao Wu et al.
FASTopic: Pretrained Transformer is a Fast, Adaptive, Stable, and Transferable Topic Model
by Xiaobao Wu, Thong Nguyen, Delvin Ce Zhang, William Yang Wang, Anh Tuan Luu
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A novel topic model called FASTopic is proposed in this paper, which offers a fast, adaptive, stable, and transferable solution for efficient topic modeling. The approach, known as Dual Semantic-relation Reconstruction (DSR), directly models the semantic relations among document embeddings from a pre-trained Transformer and learnable topic and word embeddings. This allows for the discovery of latent topics through reconstruction. Additionally, the paper introduces an Embedding Transport Plan (ETP) method that addresses relation bias issues and enables effective topic modeling. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper presents a new approach to topic modeling called FASTopic. It’s fast, adaptive, stable, and transferable. The model uses something called Dual Semantic-relation Reconstruction (DSR). This helps find hidden topics by looking at how documents are related. The paper also has a special way of moving words around, called Embedding Transport Plan (ETP), which makes the model work better. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Embedding * Transformer
