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The Hitchhiker's Guide to LDA

7 Aug 2019arXiv:1908.03142archive 2025-07-28

Chen Ma

Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) model is a famous model in the topic model field, it has been studied for years due to its extensive application value in industry and academia. However, the mathematical derivation of LDA model is challenging and difficult, which makes it difficult for the beginners to learn. To help the beginners in learning LDA, this book analyzes the mathematical derivation of LDA in detail, and it also introduces all the knowledge background to make it easy for beginners to understand. Thus, this book contains the author's unique insights. It should be noted that this book is written in Chinese.

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