The study investigates whether documents initially classified as noise in embedding-based topic models can be identified as precursors to emerging topics. By labeling documents based on their future trajectories and measuring confidence across multiple embedding models, the authors find that anticipatory outliers are predictable at publication time, achieving an F1 score above 0.90 on high-consensus subsets and 0.76–0.80 in chronological evaluation. The predictive power largely stems from geometric features that capture each outlier’s position in embedding space.
arXiv:2603.18358v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Outliers in dynamic topic modeling are typically treated as noise, yet we show that some can serve as early signals of emerging topics. We introduc...
arXiv:2509.22030v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This paper examines how outliers, often dismissed as noise in topic modeling, can act as weak signals of emerging topics in dynamic news corpora. U...
arXiv:2507.12295v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text anomaly detection is a critical task in natural language processing (NLP), with applications spanning fraud detection, misinformation id...
arXiv:2609.08200v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Token-level text anomaly detection, as an emerging trend of text anomaly detection, moves beyond coarse-grained document-level detection by localizing...
The paper introduces a new method that uses embedding-based dynamic topic modeling to detect and measure topic drift at the comment level in a large dataset. By applying pretrained language models to generate contextualized embeddings for 12.7 billion Reddit comments from 2006 to 2022, the authors identify evolving topic clusters over time using unsupervised techniques. Their approach includes scalable modifications to existing methods and a null model comparison test, revealing that politically and socially contentious topics show significant directional drift, while areas like music and sports remain relatively stable.
The paper introduces MARETopic, a training‑free framework that identifies topics by selecting rank‑based prototype documents from pretrained embeddings. By projecting embeddings onto a low‑dimensional manifold and building ranked neighborhood lists, a greedy algorithm picks exactly K exemplar texts whose neighborhoods cover the corpus. Two variants—MARETopic_Corr, which uses a query‑performance predictor and rank correlation, and MARETopic_Diff, which employs a rank‑based diffusion matrix—achieve higher purity and NMI on benchmark datasets and run significantly faster, while also improving topic coherence and vocabulary diversity through a novel Maximal Marginal Relevance step.
arXiv:2609.22136v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text anomaly detection, the task of identifying text instances that deviate from normal language patterns, is crucial for language-driven application...
BERTilda is an explainable framework for tracking topic lifecycles in longitudinal text streams. It discovers topics independently in each time window using an embedding‑based topic model, then links topics across adjacent windows via a temporal graph that uses both semantic similarity and a bidirectional coverage signal derived from tweet‑to‑topic attribution. The graph‑based rules identify continuations, splits, merges, disappearances, and unclear transitions, and the method achieves up to 87% agreement with human annotators on a gold‑standard subset.
Scientific weak signals are early, low-visibility research directions that later become central to mature scientific topics, yet existing resources such as trend tracking, citation forecasting, and fo...
arXiv:2607. 23682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Early warning of extreme market volatility is central to financial risk management, but actionable events are rare, nonstationary, and often triggered by exogenous information shocks.
arXiv:2606.22342v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: How does research evolve, and can we trace it at the level of individual claims? Scientific progress is not simply a uniform accumulation of facts....
arXiv:2609.24921v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific weak signals are early, low-visibility research directions that later become central to mature scientific topics, yet existing resources suc...