Monthly Archives: September 2009

Dave and I were recently talking about Asuncion et al.’s wonderful recent paper “On Smoothing and Inference for Topic Models.” One thing that caught our eye was the CVB0 inference method for topic models, which is described as a first-order … Continue reading →

Dave gently reminded me that properly assessing convergence of our models is important and that just running a sampler for N iterations is unsatisfactory. I agree wholeheartedly. As a first step, the collapsed Gibbs sampler in the R LDA package … Continue reading →