Github user takuti commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-hivemall/pull/71
**Observations**:
Current implementation is based on: [Incremental Probabilistic Latent
Semantic Analysis for
Automatic Question
Recommendation](https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b66e/c7faf2e4888503f7ad1537d284f350fb3e58.pdf),
and this technique requires us to choose `alpha` as a hyper-parameter used in
Eq. (22). However, choosing an appropriate value of `alpha` is difficult for
the following reasons:
- In the original formulation Eq. (22), `\sum_w P(w|z)` does not seem to be
1.
- Depending on data and `alpha`, perplexity highly fluctuates (i.e., not
monotonically decreasing), and thus checking convergence based on perplexity is
difficult.
One possible direction is to consider alternative incremental PLSA
techniques. In particular, [Using Incremental PLSI for Threshold-Resilient
Online Event
Analysis](https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/a258/b33e285da2e93b59e50311d50ff46045a38b.pdf)
is one of the most cited incremental PLSA papers.
I still keep this PR as "WIP" for the reasons that I mentioned above. Will
try to implement the alternative technique and report results in a week...
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