Scalable Inference of Overlapping Communities

no code implementations • NeurIPS 2012 • Prem K. Gopalan, Sean Gerrish, Michael Freedman, David M. Blei, David M. Mimno

We develop a scalable algorithm for posterior inference of overlapping communities in large networks.

Variational Inference

Rethinking LDA: Why Priors Matter

no code implementations • NeurIPS 2009 • Hanna M. Wallach, David M. Mimno, Andrew McCallum

Implementations of topic models typically use symmetric Dirichlet priors with fixed concentration parameters, with the implicit assumption that such smoothing parameters" have little practical effect.

Hyperparameter Optimization Topic Models