Code for NeurIPS 2019 paper Scalable inference of topic evolution via models for latent geometric structures

The code has been tested on Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, 18.04 LTS

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Three Settings

The code repo contains three different algorithms for scalable inference of topic evolution considering three different settings:

1. Distributed: texts distributed/grouped in some manner (e.g., location, categories)

2. Online (Streaming): texts coming in online/streaming fashion

3. Distributed & Online (Streaming): texts coming in both distributed and online fashion

####Algorithms Matching Three Settings (Setting:Algorithm)

1. Distributed: DM
2. Online: SDM
3. Distributed & Online: SDDM

usage:

Install the required dependencies:

./conf

To run three different algorithms, go to the corresponding folder (distributed for DM, online for SDM, distributed_online for SDDM) and refer the README.md file under each for algorithm & setting specific details.

###Perplexity: To compute the perplexity on the new dataset with three algorithms mentioned above, go to the folder perplexity and refer the README.md file under the folder for details.

###Data: Two datasets are used - EJC (ejc) and Wiki (wiki) (more details regarding the two datasets are given in the paper)

Each dataset folder has 5 subfolders:

• _group (dataset partitioned by different groups)

• _time (dataset partitioned by different timestamp)

• _time_group (dataset first partitioned by time and then partitioned by groups)

• _test (test dataset)

• _time_group_meta_data (contains vocabulary and group name & id mapping)

EJC_Data ([links] (https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fVQIwmZAdb76pftMKJdT9MsSq9Tlfsk0/view?usp=sharing)):

Wiki_Data ([links] (https://drive.google.com/file/d/12thNKl_BpF0ozmg_wyLAGHVQKz0lBu7m/view?usp=sharing)):

Parameter Interpretation

• tau0

Controls how topic changes from time to time: small value => sharp change of topics between different time points

• tau1

Affects the number of topics: small tau1 => larger variance between topics => less number of topics: vectors with small difference are regarded as different topics

• gamma0

Parameter of Beta process