AI RESEARCH
CobwebTM: Probabilistic Concept Formation for Lifelong and Hierarchical Topic Modeling
arXiv CS.CL
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ArXi:2604.14489v1 Announce Type: new Topic modeling seeks to uncover latent semantic structure in text corpora with minimal supervision. Neural approaches achieve strong performance but require extensive tuning and struggle with lifelong learning due to catastrophic forgetting and fixed capacity, while classical probabilistic models lack flexibility and adaptability to streaming data. We