A survey on neural topic models: methods, applications, and challenges

X Wu, T Nguyen, AT Luu - Artificial Intelligence Review, 2024 - Springer
Topic models have been prevalent for decades to discover latent topics and infer topic
proportions of documents in an unsupervised fashion. They have been widely used in …

Are LLMs good zero-shot fallacy classifiers?

F Pan, X Wu, Z Li, AT Luu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.15050, 2024 - arxiv.org
Fallacies are defective arguments with faulty reasoning. Detecting and classifying them is a
crucial NLP task to prevent misinformation, manipulative claims, and biased decisions …

MetaPro 2.0: Computational metaphor processing on the effectiveness of anomalous language modeling

R Mao, K He, C Ong, Q Liu… - Findings of the …, 2024 - aclanthology.org
Metaphor interpretation is a difficult task in natural language understanding. The
development of relevant techniques in this domain is slow, mostly because of the lack of …

FASTopic: A Fast, Adaptive, Stable, and Transferable Topic Modeling Paradigm

X Wu, T Nguyen, DC Zhang, WY Wang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Topic models have been evolving rapidly over the years, from conventional to recent neural
models. However, existing topic models generally struggle with either effectiveness …

Topic Modeling as Multi-Objective Contrastive Optimization

T Nguyen, X Wu, X Dong, CDT Nguyen, SK Ng… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Recent representation learning approaches enhance neural topic models by optimizing the
weighted linear combination of the evidence lower bound (ELBO) of the log-likelihood and …

Bridging insight gaps in topic dependency discovery with a knowledge-inspired topic model

YK Tang, H Huang, X Shi, XL Mao - Information Processing & Management, 2025 - Elsevier
Discovering intricate dependencies between topics in topic modeling is challenging due to
the noisy and incomplete nature of real-world data and the inherent complexity of topic …

A Comparative Analysis of Metaphorical Cognition in ChatGPT and Human Minds

R Mao, G Chen, X Li, M Ge, E Cambria - Cognitive Computation, 2025 - Springer
ChatGPT represents a significant advancement in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI),
showcasing the development of a robust AI system capable of multitasking and generating …

FASTopic: Pretrained Transformer is a Fast, Adaptive, Stable, and Transferable Topic Model

X Wu, TT Nguyen, DC Zhang, WY Wang… - The Thirty-eighth …, 2024 - openreview.net
Topic models have been evolving rapidly over the years, from conventional to recent neural
models. However, existing topic models generally struggle with either effectiveness …

Weak-to-Strong Backdoor Attack for Large Language Models

S Zhao, L Gan, Z Guo, X Wu, L Xiao, X Xu… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Despite being widely applied due to their exceptional capabilities, Large Language Models
(LLMs) have been proven to be vulnerable to backdoor attacks. These attacks introduce …

Modeling Dynamic Topics in Chain-Free Fashion by Evolution-Tracking Contrastive Learning and Unassociated Word Exclusion

X Wu, X Dong, L Pan, T Nguyen, AT Luu - arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.17957, 2024 - arxiv.org
Dynamic topic models track the evolution of topics in sequential documents, which have
derived various applications like trend analysis and opinion mining. However, existing …