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Topic Models: Latent Dirichlet Allocation

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DH-406: Machine learning for DH

This course aims to introduce the basic principles of machine learning in the context of the digital humanities. We will cover both supervised and unsupervised learning techniques, and study and implement methods to analyze diverse data types, such as imag ...

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This lecture covers the basics of topic modeling, focusing on Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). It explains the process of clustering documents into topics, estimating topic-word distributions, and inferring document-topic distributions. The lecture also discusses the generative process of LDA, the learning algorithms involved, and the limitations of the model. Additionally, it explores the use of LDA in digital humanities, its evaluation metrics, and its application as a form of dimensionality reduction. The lecture concludes with an overview of approximate inference methods and extensions to the LDA model.

Instructor

Mathieu Salzmann

I am a Senior Researcher at EPFL-CVLab, and, since May 2020, an Artificial Intelligence Engineer at ClearSpace (50%). Previously, I was a Senior Researcher and Research Leader in NICTA's computer vision research group. Prior to this, from Sept. 2010 to Jan 2012, I was a Research Assistant Professor at TTI-Chicago, and, from Feb. 2009 to Aug. 2010, a postdoctoral fellow at ICSI and EECS at UC Berkeley under the supervision of Prof. Trevor Darrell. I obtained my PhD in Jan. 2009 from EPFL under the supervision of Prof. Pascal Fua.

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Statistics

Statistical inference: Bayesian statistics

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