Title
Deep Poisson Factor Modeling
Abstract
We propose a new deep architecture for topic modeling, based on Poisson Factor Analysis (PFA) modules. The model is composed of a Poisson distribution to model observed vectors of counts, as well as a deep hierarchy of hidden binary units. Rather than using logistic functions to characterize the probability that a latent binary unit is on, we employ a Bernoulli-Poisson link, which allows PFA modules to be used repeatedly in the deep architecture. We also describe an approach to build discriminative topic models, by adapting PFA modules. We derive efficient inference via MCMC and stochastic variational methods, that scale with the number of non-zeros in the data and binary units, yielding significant efficiency, relative to models based on logistic links. Experiments on several corpora demonstrate the advantages of our model when compared to related deep models.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Markov chain Monte Carlo,Inference,Computer science,Artificial intelligence,Poisson distribution,Topic model,Logistic function,Hierarchy,Discriminative model,Machine learning,Binary number
DocType
Volume
ISSN
Conference
28
1049-5258
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.44
22
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ricardo Henao128623.85
Zhe Gan231932.58
James J. Lu3520118.05
L. Carin44603339.36