generative models

A reduction for efficient LDA topic reconstruction

We present a novel approach for LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) topic reconstruction. The main technical idea is to show that the distribution over the documents generated by LDA can be transformed into a distribution for a much simpler generative model in which documents are generated from the same set of topics but have a much simpler structure: documents are single topic and topics are chosen uniformly at random.

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