BayesPA

This repository contains code for the following paper:

• Shi, Tianlin, and Jun Zhu. "Online Bayesian Passive-Aggressive Learning." Proceedings of The 31st International Conference on Machine Learning. 2014.

Specifically, the code is a <b> streaming implementation of MedLDA </b>

<h2> What is MedLDA ? </h2> <p> Maximum Entropy Discriminant LDA (MedLDA) is a max-margin supervised topic model. It <i>jointly trains Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) with SVM</i>, and obtains a topic representation more suitable for discriminative tasks such as classification. </p> <h2> What is BayesPA ? </h2> Online Bayesian PA (BayesPA) is a generalization of classic Passive-Aggressive learning to the Bayesian and latent-variable setting. For every incoming mini-batch of documents, BayesPA first applies Bayes' rule to update the LDA topic model, then projects the posterior distribution to a region where the hinge-loss on the mini-batch data is minimized.

How to Use

The python interface of Online MedLDA is simple.

To use, simply

import medlda

To create a classifer with 2 labels and 61188 words,

pamedlda = medlda.OnlineGibbsMedLDA(num_topic = 5, labels = 2, words = 61188)

The training and inference are also straightfoward,

pamedlda.train_with_gml('../data/binary_train.gml', batchsize=64)
(pred, ind, acc) = pamedlda.infer_with_gml('../data/binary_test.gml', num_sample=100)

Please refer to docs for more detals.

Installing Online MedLDA

This release is for early adopters of this premature software. Please let us know if you have comments or suggestions. Contact: tianlinshi [AT] gmail.com

Online MedLDA is written in C++ 11, with a friendly python interface. It depends on gcc >= 4.8, python (numpy >= 1.7.0, distutils) and boost::python. To install, follow the instructions below.

Dependencies (Ubuntu)

# system dependency
sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev gcc-4.8
sudo apt-get install python-numpy

Dependencies (OS X, Homebrew)

brew install gcc
brew install boost --cc=gcc-4.9
brew install boost-python --cc=gcc-4.9
pip install numpy scipy

Installation

sudo python setup.py install

Citation

If you use online MedLDA in your work, please cite

<i>Shi, T., & Zhu, J. (2014). Online Bayesian Passive-Aggressive Learning. In Proceedings of The 31st International Conference on Machine Learning (pp. 378-386).</i>

License (GPL V3)

Copyright (C) 2014 Tianlin Shi

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributeCd in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.