Mallet Extension

In Mallet package, it only contains two topic Models--LDA and Hierachical LDA. So I tried to implement some useful topic modeling methods on it.

Model:

• Hierarchical Dirichlet Process with Gibbs Sampling. (in HDP folder)
• Inference part for hLDA. (in hLDA folder)

Usage:

1. This is an extension for Mallet, so you need to have Mallet's source code first.
2. put HDP.java, HDPInferencer.java and HierarchicalLDAInferencer.java in src/cc/mallet/topics folder.
3. If you are going to run HDP, make sure you include knowceans package in your project.
4. run HDPTest.java or hLDATest.java will give you a demo for a small dataset in data folder.

References:

• Mallet
• knowceans
• HDP paper
• "Implementing the HDP with minimum code complexity", Gregor Heinrich

Scikit-learn Extension

Note:

This extension is merged in scikit-learn 0.17 version.

Model:

• online LDA with variational inference. (In LDA folder)

Usage:

1. Make sure numpy, scipy, and scikit-learn are installed.
2. run python test in lda folder for unit test
3. The onlineLDA model is in lda.py.
4. For a quick exmaple, runpython lda_example.py online will fit a 10 topics model with 20 NewsGroup dataset. online means we use online update(or partial_fit method). Change online to batch will fit the model with batch update(or fit method).

Reference:

• Scikit-learn
• onlineLDA
• "Online Learning for Latent Dirichlet Allocation", Matthew D. Hoffman, David M. Blei, Francis Bach

Others:

• Another HDP implementation can be found it my bnp repository. It also follows scikit-learn API and is optimized with cython.