arXiv Machine Learning

Imbalanced Data Clustering via Targeted Data Augmentation Using GMM and LLM

arXiv:2607. 28635v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In Natural Language Processing (NLP), dealing with underrepresented topics is challenging, especially in unsupervised tasks where clustering might not adequately capture minority topics.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 7

LentEx: Generalizable Latent Entity Extraction via Synthetic Data and Instruction-Tuned LLMs

LentEx is a new framework for latent entity extraction that uses synthetic data generation and instruction fine‑tuning to train smaller, efficient large language models. By creating diverse, contextually rich synthetic examples through a template‑based approach, LentEx overcomes the lack of labeled datasets and achieves strong performance, surpassing state‑of‑the‑art models on the MTEB Clustering Benchmark. The method also generalizes well to unseen domains, making it useful for tasks such as retrieval‑augmented generation, customer persona analysis, and knowledge graph enrichment.

By Umesh Bodhwani, Yuan Ling, Cibi Chakravarthy Senthilkumar, Shujing Dong, Yarong Feng, Hongfei Li, Ayush Goyal
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 2

SAGE: Subpopulation-Aware Generative Enhancement for Mitigating Spurious Correlations

SAGE (Subpopulation-Aware Generative Enhancement) is a two-stage generative augmentation framework designed to mitigate spurious correlations in machine learning when group labels are unavailable. It uses cluster-derived sub-labels and class labels to fine‑tune a conditional generative model and text encoder, producing synthetic data that fills underrepresented regions and creates a balanced validation set for last‑layer reweighting. Experiments show SAGE improves worst‑group accuracy to 89.5%, 85.7%, and 79.1% on Waterbirds, CelebA, and MetaShift, outperforming existing group‑label‑free baselines by up to 7.7 percentage points.

By Yiming Luo, Rongqiang Zhao, Jie Liu
arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 28

TopiCLEAR: Adaptive embedding clustering for interpretable topic discovery from short texts

TopiCLEAR is a framework that clusters document or sentence embeddings using adaptive dimensionality reduction to uncover low‑dimensional geometric structures that correspond to human‑interpretable topics. The method is evaluated on four benchmark datasets, showing strong agreement with human annotations, especially for short and informal texts. A Twitter case study demonstrates that TopiCLEAR yields more interpretable topics than LDA, recovering both annotated topic structure and coherent sub‑topics.

By Aoi Fujita, Taichi Yamamoto, Yuri Nakayama, Ryota Kobayashi
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

Beyond Top Words: MonoTM for Topic Modeling with Interpretable Monosemantic Features

MonoTM is an interpretable topic modeling framework that separates the estimation of document–topic mixtures from the generation of topic descriptors. It uses sparse autoencoders to extract dense, interpretable features for mixture estimation, then learns topic descriptors from a distinct set of corpus‑grounded semantic features. This approach preserves global topic structure while providing more meaningful, semantic‑unit descriptors than traditional top‑word lists.

By Una Joh, Bei Yu