Dynamic Structured Neural Topic Model with Self-Attention Mechanism

Nozomu Miyamoto, Masaru Isonuma, Sho Takase, Junichiro Mori, Ichiro Sakata


Abstract
This study presents a dynamic structured neural topic model, which can handle the time-series development of topics while capturing their dependencies.Our model captures the topic branching and merging processes by modeling topic dependencies based on a self-attention mechanism.Additionally, we introduce citation regularization, which induces attention weights to represent citation relations by modeling text and citations jointly.Our model outperforms a prior dynamic embedded topic model regarding perplexity and coherence, while maintaining sufficient diversity across topics.Furthermore, we confirm that our model can potentially predict emerging topics from academic literature.
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2023.findings-acl.366
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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5916–5930
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Nozomu Miyamoto, Masaru Isonuma, Sho Takase, Junichiro Mori, and Ichiro Sakata. 2023. Dynamic Structured Neural Topic Model with Self-Attention Mechanism. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pages 5916–5930, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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