Towards Better Understanding with Uniformity and Explicit Regularization of Embeddings in Embedding-based Neural Topic Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07960v1
• Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 07:02:55 GMT
• Title: Towards Better Understanding with Uniformity and Explicit Regularization of Embeddings in Embedding-based Neural Topic Models
• Authors: Wei Shao, Lei Huang, Shuqi Liu, Shihua Ma, Linqi Song
• Abstract summary: Embedding-based neural topic models could explicitly represent words and topics by embedding them to a homogeneous feature space. There are no explicit constraints for the training of embeddings, leading to a larger optimization space. We propose an embedding regularized neural topic model, which applies the specially designed training constraints on word embedding and topic embedding.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Embedding-based neural topic models could explicitly represent words and topics by embedding them to a homogeneous feature space, which shows higher interpretability. However, there are no explicit constraints for the training of embeddings, leading to a larger optimization space. Also, a clear description of the changes in embeddings and the impact on model performance is still lacking. In this paper, we propose an embedding regularized neural topic model, which applies the specially designed training constraints on word embedding and topic embedding to reduce the optimization space of parameters. To reveal the changes and roles of embeddings, we introduce \textbf{uniformity} into the embedding-based neural topic model as the evaluation metric of embedding space. On this basis, we describe how embeddings tend to change during training via the changes in the uniformity of embeddings. Furthermore, we demonstrate the impact of changes in embeddings in embedding-based neural topic models through ablation studies. The results of experiments on two mainstream datasets indicate that our model significantly outperforms baseline models in terms of the harmony between topic quality and document modeling. This work is the first attempt to exploit uniformity to explore changes in embeddings of embedding-based neural topic models and their impact on model performance to the best of our knowledge.

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